Food & Health
BasicBalanced diet + exercise = health.
- A balanced diet = vegetables + fruit + fish + rice.
- Cut down on: junk food and sugary drinks.
- Advice patterns: You should... / You should not...
文體小知識：Healthy eating habits.
§Text Passage
1Last month, I was ill and had to stay in bed for three days. I felt weak, and even climbing the stairs made me tired. The doctor told me to eat a balanced diet and do more exercise. He also said I should sleep before ten o'clock every night. I promised him I would change my habits.
2Now I eat more vegetables and fruit every day. They give me vitamins that keep my body healthy. I also eat eggs, fish and milk for protein, which makes my muscles strong. I used to love fried chicken and soft drinks, but now I eat them only once a week. Mum says I am becoming a smart eater.
3Every morning, I exercise for thirty minutes in the park with Dad. We jog, stretch and sometimes play badminton. My mother says healthy food is like fuel for our body, and junk food is like bad petrol. Now I seldom get sick, and I have more energy at school. I can even concentrate better in class. A healthy body helps us study better, and I want to keep this good habit forever.
§Sentence-by-sentence translation Sentence-by-sentence translation
Last month, I was ill and had to stay in bed for three days.
上個月我病了，要在牀上睡足三日。
I felt weak, and even climbing the stairs made me tired.
我全身沒有力，連爬樓梯都覺得累。
The doctor told me to eat a balanced diet and do more exercise.
醫生叫我飲食要均衡，還要多做運動。
He also said I should sleep before ten o'clock every night.
他還說我每晚要十點前睡覺。
I promised him I would change my habits.
我答應他會改掉壞習慣。
Now I eat more vegetables and fruit every day.
現在我每天都吃更多蔬菜同生果。
They give me vitamins that keep my body healthy.
它們提供維他命，令我身體健康。
I also eat eggs, fish and milk for protein, which makes my muscles strong.
我還會吃雞蛋、魚同奶來吸收蛋白質，令肌肉強壯。
I used to love fried chicken and soft drinks, but now I eat them only once a week.
我以前很喜歡炸雞同汽水，但現在一個星期只吃一次。
Mum says I am becoming a smart eater.
媽咪說我越來越懂得吃東西。
Every morning, I exercise for thirty minutes in the park with Dad.
每天早上我都會同爸爸在公園做三十分鐘運動。
We jog, stretch and sometimes play badminton.
我們會跑步、拉筋，有時打羽毛球。
My mother says healthy food is like fuel for our body, and junk food is like bad petrol.
媽咪說健康食物就好像身體的燃料，垃圾食物就好像壞汽油。
Now I seldom get sick, and I have more energy at school.
現在我很少生病，上學都精力充沛。
I can even concentrate better in class.
上課還可以更加專心。
A healthy body helps us study better, and I want to keep this good habit forever.
健康的身體幫助我們更好地學習，我想永遠保持這個好習慣。
1Summary 重點摘要
Balanced diet + exercise = health.
2Vocabulary cards Vocabulary
A plant food we eat.
Sweet food from plants.
A nutrient that builds the body.
A nutrient for health.
Eating many kinds of food.
Moving the body to keep fit.
Full of strength.
Not well, sick.
3Step by step Steps
- Food typesFood groups: vegetables, fruit, protein and grains. Example: I eat vegetables every day. Vegetables is usually plural because we eat several kinds at once; fruits can be used when we mean different kinds of fruit.
- NutrientsNutrients: vitamin, fibre, calcium, protein. Example: Milk gives us calcium. Use give us plus the nutrient; add -s to the verb when the food is singular, as in gives.
- HabitsHealthy habits: a balanced diet, exercise, enough sleep. Example: A balanced diet keeps us healthy. Diet here means everyday food; keep us healthy is keep plus object plus adjective, showing a state.
- BodyBody words: strong, ill, healthy, weak. Example: Exercise makes me strong. Make plus object plus adjective means to cause a change; ill often comes after a verb, as in fall ill.
- Doctor's adviceReport the doctor's words with told me to plus the base verb. Example: The doctor told me to eat a balanced diet. After to always use the base form, never -ing; should in the original becomes to plus the verb.
- Should and should notGive advice with should; the negative is should not or shouldn't. Example: You should drink more water. Use the base verb after should; too many goes with countable nouns and too much with uncountable nouns.
5Worked example Example
Question: The doctor gives advice about food. How do we report it and add our own advice?
- Step 1: Set the scene in the past tense — Last month, I was ill and stayed in bed for three days. Time first, so the listener can follow the story.
- Step 2: Report the advice — The doctor told me to eat a balanced diet. Told me to plus the base verb is the fixed pattern for reporting advice.
- Step 3: Say what you should do — I should eat more vegetables and fruit. Should plus the base verb sounds polite and natural.
- Step 4: Say what you should not do — I should not drink too many sugary drinks. The base verb still follows should not; too many fits countable nouns.
- Step 5: Add exercise advice to close — I should exercise for an hour every day. A length of time makes the advice concrete.
- Answer: Sample answer: Last month I was ill. The doctor told me to eat a balanced diet and do more exercise. Now I eat more vegetables and fruit, and I do not drink sugary drinks. I exercise every day, so I feel strong again. Report, advice and change are all there, and feel strong at the end echoes ill at the start.
6Common mistakes Mistakes
7Quick check Quick check
Q1Vegetable?
Q2Balanced diet?
Q3Protein?
Q4Vitamin?
Q5Strong?
Q6Exercise?
8Recap Recap
- A balanced diet = vegetables + fruit + fish + rice.
- Cut down on: junk food and sugary drinks.
- Advice patterns: You should... / You should not...
- Reporting advice: The doctor told me to eat more vegetables.
- Health = diet + exercise every day.