- Eating x Health
- Creativity x Health
- Exercising x Health
Essential
Lead-in
- Do you think people nowadays have the right priorities?
- What would you say these priorities are?
- And now about you:
- What are your top priorities?
- What is essential for your comfort?
Presentation
Pre
- According to the past lessons and to your experience, what is essential for a healthy lifestyle?
Top Down
- What is the main relation mentioned in the text? Read it and find out.
- Eating x Health
- Creativity x Health
- Exercising x Health
What does it mean to live a healthy life?
written by JAMES CLEAR
This is one of the central questions that our community is working to answer.
For my part, I started asking this question when I decided that exercising and eating healthy, while important, is a painfully limited view of what it means to live a healthy life.
I imagine we’ll answer this question for the rest of our lives, but here’s the answer I have today…
In order to have a healthy life it’s essential to involve creativity.
I mean this in the literal sense. Creative pursuits (art, dance, music, etc.) have been proven to reduce stress and provide numerous health benefits. Furthermore, I believe these activities are good for you because it’s healthy to contribute something to the world around you.
Creativity also keeps you grounded. People who spend their life creating understand how hard it is to make something valuable. They appreciate great work. They respect the willingness to take a risk and the effort required to be part of the conversation. They live in the arena instead of judging from the crowd.
And perhaps most importantly: It is through the act of creating new experiences that we discover who we are and what is important to us. The act of creating things is one of the best ways to avoid living a short, unimportant life.
Modified from source
Bottom Up
- True or False
- “What does it mean to live a healthy life?” is one example of the many questions that our community is avoiding to answer.
- According to the author, exercising and eating healthy is not really important.
- Creativity is essential.
- Art, dance, music, etc have been proven to reduce stress and provide a lot of health benefits.
- Creativity is the only thing that keeps you grounded.
- “What does it mean to live a healthy life?” is one example of the many questions that our community is avoiding to answer. False
- According to the author, exercising and eating healthy is not really important. False
- Creativity is essential. True
- Art, dance, music, etc have been proven to reduce stress and provide a lot of health benefits. True
- Creativity is the only thing that keeps you grounded. False
Post
- How creative are you?
- In what field are you the most creative?
Target Language
Adjectives + Infinitive
Adjective + to infinitive
- It’s important to pay attention to our health.
- It’s expensive to buy a house in this neighborhood.
- It’s cheaper to travel to the United States than to travel to Bahia.
Adjective + for someone + to infinitive
- It’s better for me to reschedule our class.
- It’s easy for him to do the math.
- It’s really difficult for them to exercise every day like you do.
Controlled Practice
- Match the halves.
- It’s rude to…
- it’s nice to have…
- It’s good to get things right…
- It’s impossible to imagine…
- It’s sad to…
- It’s unfortunate to say…
( ) a better life for me.
( ) leave cell phones and pagers on during meetings or seminars.
( ) be leaving them behind after all this time.
( ) that most of the victims happen to be children.
(2) flowers inside the house.
( ) but I’m afraid we’re all capable of careless errors at times.
- It’s rude to…
- it’s nice to have…
- It’s good to get things right…
- It’s impossible to imagine…
- It’s sad to…
- It’s unfortunate to say…
(4) a better life for me.
(1) leave cell phones and pagers on during meetings or seminars.
(5) be leaving them behind after all this time.
(6) that most of the victims happen to be children.
(2) flowers inside the house.
(3) but I’m afraid we’re all capable of careless errors at times.
Freer Practice
- Use the target language and complete the sentences according to your own ideas.
- It’s expensive to…
- My boss thinks it’s important to…
- I never realized it’s good to…
- It’s really hard to… when I…
- It’s cruel to…
- My best friend thinks it’s creepy to…
Production
- Use the target language to talk about 8 of your workplace’s “dos and don’ts”.
Example: At my workplace, it’s important to say good morning to everyone, otherwise…
Homework
Match the sentences halves.
Example:
- It’s important… (2) for me to pay by credit card.
- It’s easier… (1) to study hard.
- It’s expensive…
- It’s difficult…
- It’s easy…
- It’s boring…
- It’s better…
( ) to stay home all weekend doing nothing.
( ) for you to listen to what they say.
( ) to travel by plane in Brazil.
( ) to get lost without a map.
( ) for me to remember instructions.
- It’s expensive…
- It’s difficult…
- It’s easy…
- It’s boring…
- It’s better…
(4) to stay home all weekend doing nothing.
(5) for you to listen to what they say.
(1) to travel by plane in Brazil.
(3) to get lost without a map.
(2) for me to remember instructions.
Choose the best option.
Example: it’s hard to pay / pay attention when you’re tired > it’s hard to pay attention when you’re tired”.
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It’s bad for you / to you to smoke that much.
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It’s cheap to buy / for buy food in that supermarket.
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It’s worse us / for us to keep waiting here.
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It’s nice to know / knowing that you like me too.
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It’s important keep / to keep you house clean.
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It’s bad for you to smoke that much.
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It’s cheap to buy food in that supermarket.
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It’s worse for us to keep waiting here.
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It’s nice to know that you like me too.
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It’s important to keep you house clean.
Fill in the gaps using the word in brackets in the correct form.
Example: It’s better _______ (me / pay) by credit card > It’s better for me to pay by credit card.
- It’s nice _______ (know) that she’s a good person.
- It’s horrible _______ (you / be) in this position.
- It’s great _______ (us / learn) Spanish.
- It’s fun _______ (students / have) this party at school.
- It’s amazing _______ (know) so many people from all over the world.
- It’s nice to know that she’s a good person.
- It’s horrible for you to be in this position.
- It’s great for us to learn Spanish.
- It’s fun for the students to have this party at school.
- It’s amazing to know so many people from all over the world.
Put the words in the correct order
Example: for me / at home / to sleep / it’s better > it’s better for me to sleep at home.
- new /a / language / hard / to / it’s / learn
- listen / it’s / to / important / to / parents / your
- go / for /to / her / it’s / by / easier /car
- you / to / for / do / therapy / good / it’s
- take / to / care / her / it’s / for / difficult / alone / of / baby / the
- It’s hard to learn a new language.
- It’s important to listen to your parents.
- It’s easier for her to go by car.
- It’s good for you to do therapy.
- It’s difficult for her to take care of the baby alone.
Find and correct the mistakes.
- It’s difficult learn Maths on your own.
- It’s exciting for know that we will travel abroad.
- It’s easy to her to talk to people.
- It’s important remember that we love each other.
- It’s worse to everybody go against him.
- It’s difficult to learn Maths on your own.
- It’s exciting to know that we will travel abroad.
- It’s easy for her to talk to people.
- It’s important to remember that we love each other.
- It’s worse for everybody to go against him
Writing
Write a dialogue using the target language.
Example:
Andrea: Hi, Fernanda! What do you think about taking a spa day?
Fernanda: It would be great for me to take a day off! What do you have in mind?