a lesson plan on healthy lifestyle for EFL pre-intermediate students

1. HEALTHY
LIFESTYLE
Teacher: Hanna Dudich
8th form

2. Couch potato

3. Questionnaire:
How active are you?

4. Your health
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5. Reading.A Generation of Couch Potatoes.
• How does your lifestyle compare to British teenagers?
• Are they more active than you?

6. Whose lifestyle is healthier?
How does your lifestyle compare to your grandparents’
lives? Has anything changed? Discuss these topics:

8. The Food Pyramid
Which kinds of food do you
think you should eat more and
which less?
• Read your texts;
• Match your text with the
part of the food pyramid.

9. Match the Correct Food Groups

10. Let’s Have a Break!
• Form
• Peel
• Slice
• Mash
• Squeeze

11. Fitness Campaign
•Group 1 - a blog entry
•Group 2 - a poster
•Group 3 - a video challenge

12. Class Discussion
• Do you agree or disagree with these statements?
• Young people are naturally fit and healthy and don’t need much exercise.
• Eating fast food is OK if you don’t eat it every day.
• Older people always say negative things about teenagers habits.
• Sport is good fun.
• Teenagers don’t have enough time to do sports because they have too much
homework.
• Schools should make all students do at least 2 hours of PE a week.

13. ExitTicket
• Choose a word you’ve learned today or an activity you enjoyed, write it on the
ticket, share with the class if you want to…
• Homework: post an entry to the class blog
• The prize!