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1.

Look for the following concepts and express them with your own words:

Sedentarism: A person is sedentary when they doesn´t do more than 30 minutes of exercise every
day for three days a week.

Physical activity: Physical activity is any movement your body makes although it is for entertainment.

Healthy habits: A healthy habit is any habit which affects our body in a good way like eating healthy
food or doing exercise.

2. Do you consider yourself a sedentary person? Tell an example of sedentary habits you usually
have. Search on the internet the percentage of adolescents who have sedentary habits in the world
and give your opinion about it.

I think i am a sedentary person because I do exercise almost every day but its true that I have
sedentary habits like being with the phone for a long time. In the world the 80% of the teenagers are
sedentary and I think this is a problem because if you don´t get used to doing sport when you are
young, later you will have it mor difficult.

3. Search the benefits of physical activity for health and explain those who are the most important
for you. The World Health Organization establishes the minimum time to maintain good healthy
habits. Compare it with yours.

Physical activity helps to avoid many cardiovascular diseases because by doing physical activity you
improve your hearth.

Physical activity also helps to control overweight, which is a very big problem nowadays, by burning
calories.

4. Make a list of two of your healthy habits and another three that you could improve and propose
an action to correct them.

A healthy habit I have is that lately I´ve been eating healthy food like a lot of vegetables.

Another healthy habit I have is that every day I do exercise like playing basketball, football or going
cycling.

Other healthy habit I have is that I

An unhealthy habit I have is that I eat between hours and I know that it is not good. I think I could
eat more on time.

Other unhealthy habit is that sometimes I am one or two-hours playing videogames.

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