This is America. Гришенкова Е.Г. - 53 стр.

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3 COMPREHENSION CHECK

Decide whether these statements are TRUE or FALSE

1. In order to lose extra weight you should go on a diet.

2. Doing exercise you can reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, type-two

diabetes, osteoporosis and even some kinds of cancer.

3. Exercise is sure to improve not only your appearance but your emotional health

as well.

4. The Centers for Disease Control reports that some activity is better than none.

5. To get health benefit from exercise people need to exercise thirty minutes each

day for at least five days.

6. Water aerobics is more beneficial to health than swimming.

7. Whatever kind of exercise you choose, experts agree that you should start

small and then increase the intensity of your workout.

4 VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR EXERCISES

1) Match the beginning of the phrases with their endings to make expressions from

the text

1. lose/gain a. health effects

2. improve b. weights

3. gain c. extra weight

4. lift d. the health benefits of exercise

5. do e. your appearance/emotional health

6. get f. your way up

7. work g. more calories

8. burn off h. sit-ups/push-ups

2) Fill in the gaps with proper prepositions

The Census Bureau says swimming was the third most popular sports activity

1) ____ the United States in 2007. The top two were walking and exercising 2) ____

equipment. Swimming is said to be one 3) ____ the best ways to exercise. Nearly all