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✓ The text should be 500 - 700 words long. (4-5 minutes for listening texts).
✓ In this document, provide a copy of the reading text or a transcript of the listening text you
have chosen.
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in section b) of the essay.
✓ Highlight 12 vocabulary items (words or phrases) which would be useful to pre-teach.
You know exercise is heart smart and good for you. But do you really know how much physical
activity you’re getting? And how can you get more, day in and day out, for your heart health? A
fitness tracker may help.
Studies show that consistently using a fitness tracker—a device that tracks your movement, such
as a traditional pedometer or other wearable device, or a smartphone app—can increase your
steps per day by more than a mile, especially if you establish a heart-smart daily goal.
“Fitness trackers are a great tool for heart health,” says Johns Hopkins cardiologist Seth Martin,
M.D., M.H.S. “Being more active and changing your habits is important, but it can be difficult.
Tracking likely helps a lot of people when combined with a clear goal to shoot for.”
“It gives people information and empowers them to start making changes for heart health,”
Martin says. “And often, their activity level was not something they were paying attention to
before they started tracking.”
Martin notes that collaborating researchers have tested the mActive program in other patients in
NIH-funded research of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, where an increase in
physical activity was also observed. He hopes to see the system more widely validate and used as
part of routine clinical care.
Currently, with support from the American Heart Association, Martin and colleagues are
incorporating the mActive automated physical activity coaching into a virtual cardiac rehabilitation
program for patients who have had cardiovascular events.
“I think technology can be a very powerful tool to get people moving more,” says Martin.
Link: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/could-a-fitness-tracker-
boost-your-heart-health