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1-Read the title of the unit and answer the questions.

1. What advice does the title give? Do you think that talking this advice could help your
health? Why or why not?

The advice that the title give is that if you eat an apple a day, you are going to be
healthy and you will not have to go to the doctor.

Yes I think that if you talk of this advice, people will eat healthier and their health will
improve because eat healthy have a lot of advantages.

2-Here are some other traditional English sayings about health. Do you think they are
true?

1. Prevention is better than cure.

Yes I think it is true because sometimes it is better to act before something bad
happen.

2. You are what you eat.

I also think that it is true because if you eat junk food, you will be very fat.

3. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

I think that this is false because if you sleep the necessary hours it is not important to
go bed early and rise up early.

Do you have any expressions about health in your language?

Yes. Be as an oak and it means an old person that have good health.

2- How much do you know about health? Do this quiz and find out!

1. The common cold is caused by cold weather.

Probably its true.

2. Sleeping less will help you lose weight.

If you sleep 8 hours you will lose weight because when you sleep your body burns a lot
of calories.

3. Exercise makes you feel good.

True because if you do exercise you will be better of health and you will fell better.
 4. Harmful chemicals leave our body when we cry.

I think that leave by the sweat when you do exercise.

5. Eating carrots is good for your eyesight.

True because carrots have a vitamin that improvement the eyesight.

6. A suntan protects you from UV radiation and skin cancer.

No because if you use suntan, you will receive more UV ray.

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1- What situations make you feel stressed? How do you deal with stress?

One of the situaton that make me feel stressed are the exams because if I have a lot of
exams, I don’t have a lot of time to do other things.

I deal with the stress making exercise because is a way to clear your head of exams.

3- Read the text again. What is the text about?

b. Causes and effects of stress and how to deal whit it.

4- Choose the correct answer.

1. Jamie feels that…. .

b. his life is very pressured.

2. The fight-or-flight response…. .

c. prepares us to deal with an emergency.

3. An exam is mentioned as an example of…. .

b. an imagined threat that can activate the stress response.

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5- Decide if the following sentences are true or false. Find evidence in the text to justify your
answers.

1. Zoe gets a lot of support from her friends.

False because in the text said that her friends are no help either.

2. Stress is rare among teenagers.

False because stress is caused is mainly caused by the exams.

 3. We can become physically ill from going into stress mode too often.

True because wen you are stress the heart pump more blood and you probably be
tired.

4. People who feel stressed can help themselves.

True because if you are stressed you can reduce stress doing exercise and a lot of
things.

5. According to Dr Goodwyn, laughing helps because it makes you forget your

problems.

I don’t know.

6- Answer the questions.

1. Dr Goodwyn says that stress can have a bad effect on health. What bad effects are
mentioned in the letters?

You can’t fall asleep, headache, stomach ache, lost apetite.

2. What happens to our heart rate and breathing when we are stressed?

That the heart pump more blood and you breath more because you need more oxygen
to the muscles.

3. What should teenagers with heavy schedules do?

They have to decide their priorities.

4. Why isn’t it good enough to exercise once in a while?

Because this is only to 12 hours and you have to do exercise regulary.

5. Why are the foods mentioned in the text good for stress?

Because if you eat food that is good for your health and bring you vitamins C,B and E
this help you to deal with stress.

7- Find words or expressions in the text that mean:

1. Lost my appetite.

2. Response.

3. Enabling

4.

5. Plenty