El. File 7 A, B
1. What word do you think is missing? Learn the rhyme by heart.
| The best six ________ anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990
| Match the definitions with the words in italics from the rhyme:
1. to repair smth that was damaged or broken so that we can use it again
2. to ask for amount of money as payment for a service
3. to become or to make smth less unpleasant, painful, difficult
4. to say that smth is not true
5. to want
6. to be with smb and help them
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Match the words to make collocations
| 1. clean
| a. cold
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| 2. control
| b. sports, exercise
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| 3. get smth
| c. cold
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| 4. depend
| d. body heat
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| 5. do
| e. from food
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| 6. common
| f. healthy
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| 7. wear
| g. on the weather
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| 8. keep smb
| h. a lot of water
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| 9. contain
| i. temperature
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| 10. cure
| j. water
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| 11. lose
| k. clothes
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| 12. reduce
| l. body
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Open the brackets using Present Simple or Present Continuous forms of the verbs. Ask and answer the questions in pairs.
a. _____ you ______ (drink) a lot of water when you are hot?
b. What _____ your health _________ (depend) on?
c. What kind of food _____ you _____ (keep) you healthy?
d. What ______ we ______ (get) from food?
e. What clothes ____ you _______ (wear) in winter?
f. What clothes ____ your partner _______ (wear) today?
g. When _____ we _______ (lose) a lot of water?
Match the words with their definitions.
| 1. level
| not long ago
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| 2. at least
| used to give extra details about smth that has just been mentioned:
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| 3. temperature
| more than two but not very many:
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| 4. probably
| smth that many people believe but that does not exist or is false
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| 5. sweat
| the amount of smth that exists in a particular situation at a particular time
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| 6. experiment
| the measurement in degrees of how hot or cold a thing or place is
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| 7. in fact
| to have the same opinion as smb; to say that you have the same opinion:
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| 8. dangerous
| a scientific test that is done in order to study what happens and to gain new knowledge
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| 9. recently
| drops of liquid that appear on the surface of your skin when you are hot, ill / sick or afraid
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| 10. several
| likely to injure or harm smb, or to damage or destroy smth
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| 11. myth
| used to say that smth is likely to happen or to be true
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| 12. agree
| not less than
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