A healthy life-style

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Lecturers

Medicine & Nursing

Classroom Context

Romanian

Any language

B1

Activity/task
Audio

Vocabulary

Listening
Critical Thinking
Reading

The resource consists of a slideshow video which presents on slides the most important vocabulary items, content and ideas related to a healthy diet and the hazards of eating junk food and of obesity. The pace is adequate for the target level and the content is interesting. It is associated with a colourful worksheet introducing new vocabulary and phrases through a matching exercise, extra reading with a fill-in exercise and a set of questions associated with the audio material. The technical solutions are simple, yet efficient and easily adaptable. A speaking follow-up activity is suggested.

The resource was tested online with students from the preparatory year at the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania, within the practical course of written and oral communication (Romanian as a foreign language). Most of the students are at A1-A2 level, after 9 weeks of study. - The resource is adequate for B1 students (CEFR) in the medical field. The resource was used in two sequences, both approximately 120 minutes long and the text, vocabulary and grammar were covered, all in the estimated language level B1. The topic was interesting and exciting. Although they were at level A1-A2, they did not have great difficulties in understanding the new vocabulary. The more difficult area was grammar which required a longer time for understanding – but it was also motivated independent study. The materials are easy to access, visually and acoustically interesting, and are clear. The fact that reading is at average speed, adapted to the current ability of students, was appreciated as one of the pluses of the resource. The students appreciated it as effective especially in the vocabulary development segment. The vocabulary exercises and the grammar questions had not yet been studied at A1-a2, but difficulties were overcome by direct translation. A minus is the fact that the text is spelt without diacritics. Assistant Professor Gina Nimigean, PhD, The Faculty of Letters, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

Please produce a check list / guidelines on how to use the resource
Duration - 4 min 20 s
1. Warm-up activity: elicit students` knowledge and attitude towards a healthy life-style and a healthy diet, and factors that can affect health;
2. Use the activities in the order in which they are presented in the work-file, also using the associated audio material;
3. Possible follow-up activity : using the lexical material students can be asked to write a short (2 paragraphs) popularization article for a magazine presenting the hazards of fast food.
The audio is based on an article from a Romanian TV channel, so the audio can be used along with/instead of the written text.