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UNIT

Health and illness

1.  Think Healthy food quiz. How much do you know about food?
1. What nutrients does pasta contain? carbohydrates

2. What can eating kiwis help you to prevent? colds

3. What nutrients are important for growth? proteins

4. What do we store for extra energy? fats

5. What should we eat at least 5 times a day? fruits and vegetables

6. What types of food should we avoid? sugary and fatty food

Now write some questions for a classmate to answer.

7.

8. student’s own answer

9.

2. W
 rite what each plate of food contains. Choose from carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and
minerals, and fats.

vitamins and minerals, proteins carbohydrates, fats vitamins and minerals

3.  Do! Match the nutrients and food to how often you should eat them. Draw examples.

carbohydrates student’s own

every meal answer
sugary and salty food
every day
fats student’s own
only occasionally answer
proteins

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4.  Think Write the sentences in the appropriate speech bubbles. Add a sentence for each boy.

I got to judo 3 times a week.

I play on the computer for an hour
every evening.
I go to bed at 10 o’clock.

I watch the T.V. or play on the

Healthy Henry computer for 5 or 6 hours every evening.

I go to bed at 12 o’clock.
I never do any exercise! It’s boring! Unhealthy Ugor

I go to judo 3 times a week. I watch the T.V. or play on the computer for 5 or 6 hours every evening.
I play on the computer for an hour every evening. I go to bed at 12 o’clock. I never do any exercise!
It’s boring! I go to bed at 10 o’clock.

5. C
 omplete the sentences.
1. Wash your hands before eating, after gping to the toilet and after touching an animal. .

2. When you blow your nose use a tissue and throw it away in the bin afterwards. .

3. Throw food away when it’s past its use-by date. .

4. Wear plastic shoes at when you go to the swimming pool. .

5. Brush your teeth after eating. .

6.  Do! Draw a picture of a healthy habit you think you should do more often!

student’s own answer

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 7. Complete the sentences about unhealthy habits. Write another sentence.

a) Don’t student’s own answer because you can become overweight and damage
your heart.

b) Don’t student’s own answer because you can damage your skeleton and
muscles.

c) Don’t student’s own answer because it causes disease and lung cancer.

d) Don’t student’s own answer because it can damage your brain, liver and heart.

e) Don’t student’s own answer

8. Number the sentences and match with the correct colour.



1 2 3 4

a) Ellie can’t eat seafood. 3

b) Jim can’t eat food that contains lactose. 4 allergy

c) Cats make Bill sneeze! 2 food intolerance

d) Mary can’t eat food that contains gluten. 1

9. Complete the sentences with or allergy or food intolerance.

People who have a food intolerance have to learn what alternative foods they
can eat. People with an allergy can prevent or treat it with medicine.

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10.  Think Write the discovery or invention in the correct place.


s i n p re v e n t i o n H e l p s t o c u re
H elp

vaccination penicillin

ultrasound machine x-ray machine

penicillin  vaccination  X-ray machine  ultrasound machine

11.
 Think What discovery or invention helps in the following situations?

1. I have an ear infection caused by bacteria.

penicillin .

2. I think I have broken my leg.

x-ray machine .

3. I’m going to have a baby but I don’t know when.

ultrasound machine .

4. There’s a very bad flu going around and I am 75 years old and weak.

vaccination .

12. Look at the photos and find the problems in the word puzzle. Write the words under the photos.


1 2 3

burn choking cut

E D F C D S B G E For each situation say what you would do:

D A F H T U U A X
D C Y K H F R N P 1. cool under the cold running water
A C H O K I N G C 2. hit firmly in the back
E U V N U D J Y K
X T V O L M H B M 3. press down with a soft cloth

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