Theme: Health, fitness, lifestyles 
Lexical area: Sports, recreational activities, frequency adverbs
Cross curricular links: Personal and social education

This lesson is about health and fitness and young people’s lifestyles. In it, students will reflect on their own lifestyles, read a text about UK teenagers, do a fitness survey to compare levels of activity with their classmates, and design a fitness campaign to encourage young people to be more active.

Aims:

  • To practise speaking skills
  • To review vocabulary of fitness
  • To practise reading skills
  • To practise question formation
  • To discuss and agree on ideas for a fitness campaign

Age group: 11 - adult

Level: B1 / B2

Time: 60 – 90 minutes

Materials: A generation of couch potatoes student worksheet

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Submitted by farlesworthy on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 13:23

Hello there, There seem to be a few worksheets with invalid links; this is one. Thank you.

Submitted by Cath McLellan on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 15:35

In reply to by farlesworthy

Thanks for your comment - our technical team is dealing with this problem. This worksheet is working fine here now - can you try it again, and let us know if you still can't access it? Sorry for the inconvenience! Cath

Submitted by clalim on Sun, 02/21/2016 - 09:26

Hi, the subject of this lesson sounds most interesting but I can't download the lesson plan and worksheet.

Submitted by Derek Spafford on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 16:00

In reply to by clalim

Hi there We've had some problems technical issue with the site, which have been worked on. Could you try again please and let us know if you still have a problem. Thanks, Del

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