● Project Making a booklet about fitness

The project in this unit is designed to help you learn English through doing a project. The reading material in this part is for you to learn the importance of living a healthy life and how to keep fit.

　　Push yourselves to make a booklet about fitness.

　　The purpose of this section is to make you use what you have learned to finish a project by working together. In the course of doing the project, discuss what you should do, and what each of you will do to make a booklet. Before writing the booklet, you will make a survey by designing a questionnaire to let other students answer so they can get the information they need to make the booklet. By doing this, all of you will be able to know how to keep fit and feel better.

Reading

1. Let's read the article from a magazine for teenagers to find the main idea of each paragraph of the article.

Paragraph 1: Eating the right food and exercising regularly will make you feel and look better.

Paragraph 2: Healthy eating along with regular exercise is the only way to become fit.

Paragraph 3: It is important to give your body the energy and water. And 50% of calories you need come from rice, bread, vegetables and fruit.

Paragraph 4: Teenagers should spend at least 30 minutes exercising, five times a week.

Paragraph 5: Teenagers need 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night.

Paragraph 6: Follow the above to look and feel much better. 2. Read the article again and try to find out key words in each paragraph which convey useful or important information.

Paragraph 1: the diet and lifestyle of teenagers, a headache to adults, feel better, look better, have more energy, eat the right food, exercise regularly

Paragraph 2: 19%, dieting and skipping meals, control their weight, take in the correct number of calories, exercise regularly, lose weight, keep fit, feel great

Paragraph 3: enough calories, girls need 2,200 calories and boys 2,800 calories one day, drink 6 to 8 cups of water a day, keep your system clean

Paragraph 4: walking, riding, do school sports, give up on sport, produce chemicals in your blood, make you feel relaxed, increase your ability to concentrate when you study, sleep better at night

Paragraph 5: a good amount of sleep, loss of sleep, make you look tried, cause you to put on weight

Paragraph 6: follow the suggestions above 3. Work in pairs to find out the main idea of the whole article.