6C: Listening: Keeping it | Tiếng Anh 12 (Friends Global) | Unit 6: Health - Lớp 12 - Giáo Dục Việt Nam

1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Answer the questions.

1 Describe the photo. What do you think is happening?

2 If you were an athlete, what would be your chosen sport and why?

2 Read the Listening Strategy and the sentence below. Think of other ways to express the underlined information.

The speaker could not have worked harder on the exercise bike.

3 2.19 Listen to the first part of a radio programme about fitness. Is the sentence in exercise 2 true or false? What words did the speaker actually use?

4 2.20 Now listen to the rest of the programme. Are the sentences about High Intensity Training true or false? Write Tor F.

1 Your heart rate and breathing quickly recover afterwards.

2 It's better than many other ways of exercising.

3 The benefits aren't yet known for serious sports training.

4 Increasing the mitochondria in your body makes you fitter.

5 Your body fat is reduced.

6 You feel hungry afterwards.

7 It takes much less time than other forms of exercise.

5 2.21 VOCABULARY Complete the sentences (1-4) with the correct form of the words. Then listen and check.

Exercise verbs    ache    burn    convert pump   

Exercise nouns   adrenalin   burst   energy   intensity

1 I was exercising so hard that my heart was ................ and my leg muscles were ................ .

2 It's good to push yourself to the absolute limit with short ................ of high- ................ exercise.

3 Mitochondria ................  fat and sugar in the body into ................ .

4 This type of exercise also releases ................- a hormone which ................ fat.

6 2.22 Listen to three speakers talking about their preferred form of exercising. Choose the correct answers ( a-c). Remember the advice in the strategy.

1 Speaker 1 says that

a he usually plays twice a week in winter.

b his attitude makes up for his deficiencies as a player.

c it's more important to enjoy yourself than to win.

2 The intention of speaker 2 is to

a detail the exercise options available at her gym.

b explain how she chooses to exercise and why.

c advise on the best way to exercise.

3 Speaker 3 is being interviewed about

a her dedication to her sport.

b her reasons for choosing this particular sport.

c her latest fitness craze.

7 VOCABULARY Complete the collocations that the speakers used in exercise 6 with the verbs below. Use each verb once, and choose the best verb for each noun.

Exercise collocations

attend     be     beat     do    lift    push    pedal

1 _____ myself to the limit

2 _____ aerobics

3  _____ on an exercise bike

4  _____ competitive

5  _____ weights

6  _____ a fitness class

7  _____ an opponent

8 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Give personal opinions about sports and fitness activities using the collocations in exercise 7. Include reasons and examples.