WEEK 3.

CHOOSING WHICH WORDS TO LEARN

I.- Answer the questions below.

What do you know about yoga?

The yoga It is a science of life which brings together the body, the mind and the spirit.

II.- Listen to an interview and read it. Answer the questions.

Health Matters

Interviewer: Good evening, and welcome to Health Matters. Today we're going to talk about yoga. I have with me
Ganesh Ragothaman, who will tell us more about this ancient art and how it can help us. First of all, Ganesh, what is
yoga?

Ganesh: You called yoga an art. I like to call it a science. It is a science of life which brings together the body, the mind
and the spirit. Most people think that yoga is about sitting in strange positions with your feet behind your head. But
making your body strong and flexible is only one part of yoga. The most important part of yoga is finding peace in your
mind and spirit. You can only do this if you have a healthy body.

Interviewer: Most people nowadays have very busy lives. How can yoga help us?

Ganesh: Well, yoga can improve your health in a hundred different ways. Just to name three: it is good for your blood
pressure; it helps you sleep better; it improves your posture - the way you stand and sit. Most of all, in these days of
mobile phones, text messages and deadlines, yoga helps us relax.

Interviewer: And how long does it take to be really good at yoga?

Ganesh: It takes a lifetime. You can practice yoga from four years old to a hundred years old and you will never be
perfect. The beauty of yoga is that, as you get older, you learn more and more. With other sports, such as tennis or
football, you only get worse.

Interviewer: Do you have to change your diet?

Ganesh: If you want to have a healthy body, you must eat well. A yoga diet includes fruit, vegetables, nuts and yoghurt.
We prefer natural foods, so we eat honey instead of sugar. Of course, if you eat meat, nobody will stop you doing yoga!
The important thing is to have a healthy diet and not to eat too much.

Interviewer: What advice would you give people who are starting yoga for the first time?

Ganesh: You can do yoga anywhere. You can do it in a room in your house, in your garden or in a public park. You don’t
need any special equipment. But if you are starting for the first time, it is best to find a good yoga teacher and to take
lessons once or twice a week. You can practice on your own. My advice to someone who wants to start yoga is: start
today!

Interviewer: Thank you, Ganesh. Now Ganesh is going to show us some yoga positions after the break.

1.Doing exercise is only one part of yoga. TRUE FALSE

2.Yoga can help people who are stressed. TRUE FALSE
3.Old should not do yoga. TRUE FALSE
4. If you do yoga, you should not eat meat. TRUE FALSE
5.It is best to do yoga in a gym. TRUE FALSE

III.- Now read the interview again. Match the meanings with words from the interview.

1.- Very old. There’s an ancient tree in our village. It is one thousand years old. Ancient
2.- Not your mind or your body; the part of you that does not die when your body dies. Spirit

3.- Unusual, not normal. There’s a very Strange smell. Is the milk bad? Strange

4.- When your body can easily move in different directions. Flexible

5.- The force in your blood inside your body. People who smoke and eat too much have high Blood Pressure

6.- The way you sit, stand or lie. Posture

7.- The date when you must finish a job. The Deadlines for the report is 23rd May Deadlines

8.- The food that you normally eat. I don’t have a very good Diet. I eat too many sweet things. Diet

9.- Special things you need for a job or a sport. Ice hockey is an expensive game because you need too much Equipment

10.- A special way of sitting or lying. In the Lotus Position you sit with your feet on top of your legs. Position

IV.-How do I learn new words? Look at the five ideas below. Learn the words from the last exercise.

1 Buy a vocab notebook and write down new words. Reading will help you learn new words, but it is not enough. You
have to learn new words actively, every day.

2 Write down vocab in a way that is easy to remember. For example:

a. Write opposites together

b. Draw pictures

c. Write 'word families' together (happy - unhappy - happiness)

d. Use different colors

Find out what works for you.

3 When you learn the words, read them, write them and say them. Listen to yourself saying them. You use different
parts of your brain to learn.

4 Reading is one of the best ways of learning new words. But make sure you read things that you enjoy!

5 Decide how many words you are going to learn. If you learn 10 words every day, by the end of the month you will have
300 new words.

V.- Can you remember the words you learnt? Write the words below.

1 Ancient means very old.

There's ancient tree in our village. It's 1,000 years old.

2 Your spirit is not your mind or your body. It's the part of you that does not die when your body dies.

3 Strange means unusual, not normal. There's a very ... smell. Is the milk bad?

4 If something is flexible, it can easily move in different directions.

5 Blood pressure is the force of your blood inside your body. People who smoke and eat too much fatty food have high
blood pressure

6 Your posture is the way you sit, stand or lie. Suzanne has very good posture. She always sits up straight.

7 A deadlines is the date when you must finish a job. The deadlines for this report is May 23.

8 Your diet is the food that you normally eat. I don't have a very good diet I eat too many sweet things.

9 Equipment means special things you need for a job or a sport. Ice hockey is an expensive game because you need so
much equipment.

10.- A position is a special way of sitting or lying. In the Lotus position you sit with your feet on top of your legs.

VI.-Which words should I learn?

Reading and vocabulary

The most important thing in reading is understanding the words. But there are more than 500,000 words in English! You
can't learn all of them. Which ones should you learn?

Look at the words you learnt in this unit.

Ancient –flexible-deadline- position-strange-spirit-posture-diet-equipment-blood pressure

Now think about how useful each of these words is for you. Ask these questions:

1. Have you seen this word before? Often? not so often, I hear these words.

2. Is it useful for you (for your work, study or your hobby)? Yes, since it allows us to familiarize ourselves with academic
text in English, to understand certain words.

3. Is this word interesting in some way? Yes, because it helps us with good vocabulary.

4. Is it easy to learn (e.g. similar to your language)? more or less because we are not so frequent practicing English.

5.- Will you use these words? Yes, to carry out daily activities

WEEK 4. MATCHING NOUNS AND PRONOUNS.

I.- Fill in the blanks in the exercise below. I, me, my

Look at these sentences:

Carol lives in Sydney. She has a business.

Tony has a dog. His dog has long ears.

She means Carol. His means Tony

Subject Object Possessive Adjective

I me my
you you your
he him his
she her her
it it its
we us our
they them their

II.-First read the text. Then read it again and answer the questions.
Rent-a-Pet

Carol Green lives in Sydney, Australia. She has her own business. Rent-a-Pet is the name of Carol's business. You can rent animals
like dogs or cats from her. You pay some money, and you borrow the pet for a few hours or days. Carol has more than 80 animals in
her house. She has six dogs, five cats, eight rabbits and ten birds. She has some snakes, lizards, spiders and some insects. Carol loves
animals, and looks after them very well. She has three children, and they help her. Every day they help Carol to feed all the animals
and to take the dogs for a walk, too.

Why do people want to rent pets? There are many different reasons. These days, lots of people live in small houses or flats. They
cannot keep their own pets. So they rent a dog or cat for a few hours. Sometimes children want to have a pet, but their parents do
not agree. The children can rent a pet for a few days, so the parents are happy and the children are happy!

Sometimes, a teacher asks Carol to visit a school. Carol takes some of her animals with her. She talks to the children, and shows
them her animals. She shows them a big spider and a long snake. 'They are not dangerous,' Carol says. 'Here, you can touch them,
but please be very careful.'

The children like to see and touch real animals. They love to hold the soft animals like the rabbits. They learn many things about
animals from Carol.

Carol also takes her animals into hospitals sometimes. The patients in the hospitals do not usually see animals. Some patients stay in
hospital for many weeks. They are very happy to see Carol and her animals.

She often takes one or two big dogs with her. The dogs are very friendly and they love everyone. The patients like to stroke the dogs
and talk to them. The doctors are pleased, because the patients are happy.

Carol has a very busy life. It is hard work, but she does not mind. Her business is quite small and she is not rich. But she enjoys her
life very much. She loves her animals, and she teaches many people about animals. She makes people happy.

1.- Carol Green sells animals. TRUE FALSE

2.- She keeps the animals at home. TRUE FALSE
3.- Carol’s family help her look after the animals. TRUE FALSE
4.- You have to rent a pet for a least one week. TRUE FALSE
5.- Carol takes dangerous animals to schools. TRUE FALSE
6.- She lets children stroke snakes. TRUE FALSE
7.- She takes animals to school for children to play with, but she doesn’t teach the children. TRUE FALSE
8.- Animals are good for sick people. TRUE FALSE
9.- Carol makes a lot of money from her business. TRUE FALSE
10.- The writer thinks Carol is a good person. TRUE FALSE
III. Read the first part of Rent-a-Pet again. Check the boldfaced words. These replace other words. See which words they replace.

Rent-a-Pet (part one) Carol Green lives in Sydney, Australia. She has her own business. Rent-a Pet is the name of Carol's business.
You can rent animals like dogs or cats from her. You pay some money, and you borrow the pet for a few hours or days.

Carol has more than 80 animals in her house. She has six dogs, five cats, eight rabbits and ten birds. She has some snakes, lizards,
spiders and some insects. Carol loves animals, and looks after them very well. She has three children, and they help her. Every day
they help Carol to feed all the animals and to take the dogs for a walk, too.

Why do people want to rent pets? There are many different reasons. These days, lots of people live in small houses or flats. They
cannot keep their own pets. So they rent a dog or cat for a few hours. Sometimes children want to have a pet, but their parents do
not agree. The children can rent a pet for a few days, so they are happy and the parents are happy too!

IV.- Now complete part two of Rent-a-Pet! Replace the boldfaced words with 'they', 'them', 'she' or 'her'. The first one is done for
you.

Rent-a-Pet (part two) Sometimes, a teacher asks Carol to visit a school. Carol takes some of her animals with her (Carol). She talks to
the children, and shows them (the children) her animals. She shows them a big spider and a long snake. 'They are not dangerous,'
Carol says. 'Here, you can touch _they__ (the spider and the snake), but please be very careful.

The children like to see and touch real animals. they (the children) love to hold the soft animals like the rabbits. They learn many
things about animals from Carol.
Carol also takes __her___ (Carol's) animals into hospitals sometimes. The patients in the hospitals do not usually see animals. Some
patients stay in hospital for many weeks. __them____ (the patients) are very happy to see Carol and her animals.

She often takes one or two big dogs with her. The dogs are very friendly and _they__ (the dogs) love everyone. The patients like to
stroke the dogs and talk to __they___ (the dogs). The doctors are pleased, because the patients are happy.

Carol has a very busy life. It is hard work, but __she__ (Carol) does not mind. _her__ (Carol's) business is quite small and she is not
rich. But she enjoys her life very much. She loves her animals, and __she___ (Carol) teaches many people about animals. She makes
people happy.

V.- Now try using some of these words. Drag down the boldfaced words below to complete the sentences below.

Us its my your It your her his she they

1 I like her, but "her" doesn't like me.

2 Carol lives in a house. "it" is in Sydney.

3 'Have you seen my mother?' 'Yes, I saw "she" just now, in the library.'

4 We're going out this evening. Do you want to come with "us"?

5 My father has lent me "its" car.

6 Look at the dog! It's wagging "his" tail.

7 Would you like to see "my" new car? I bought it yesterday.

8 Look at those cats! Aren't "they" beautiful?

9 Can you lend me "your" pen? I've lost mine.

10 Our house is too small for a dog. How about you? How big is ¨your" house?