Unit 5 Vocabulary and Grammar: Health and Fitness

Unit 5 Level 1 Vocabulary and Grammar

Vocabulary

1. Health and Well-being

  • Has improved
  • Don’t overdo it
  • Bad mood
  • Eat nutritious food
  • Mark injured his…
  • No self-discipline
  • Stay sane in…
  • A sign of…

2. Phrasal Verbs

  • Recover from – Get over
  • Start – Take up
  • Exercises – Works out
  • Reduce – Cut down on
  • Handle – Deal with
  • Starts to work – Kicks in
  • Gained – Put on
  • Getting – Coming down with

3. Definitions

  • Get in shape: Start exercising regularly
  • Fed up: They keep trying and failing
  • Get rid of: All the dust in your house
  • Sense: Let someone know
  • Stressful: Nervous
  • Exhausted: Hiking

Grammar

4. Passive Voice

  1. When we arrived at the hotel, our room was being cleaned.
  2. English is spoken all over the world.
  3. The tickets can be paid for by credit card.
  4. You will be told when to begin writing.
  5. The room hasn’t been painted yet.
  6. Your meal is being prepared (by the chef).
  7. When is our work going to be finished?
  8. By the time Dan arrived, everything had already been cleared away.

5. Mixed Tenses

  1. Are working / Must be finished
  2. Were discovered / Would live
  3. Arrived / Were met
  4. Is being painted / Are going
  5. Has been told
  6. Promised / Has done

6. Causative

  1. Have it cleaned
  2. Had it checked
  3. Am having one made
  4. Get… brought
  5. Getting… cut

Unit 5 Level 2 Vocabulary and Grammar

Vocabulary

1. Word Pairs

  • Mood – Broken
  • Get – Taken
  • Fed – Stressful
  • Trainer – Self
  • Strenuous – Exhausted

2. Health and Fitness

  • Always sense
  • Chased the…
  • Coming down with a…
  • To warm up so…
  • Are underweight
  • Won’t last
  • Disease
  • Kicks in

3. Phrases

  • Over the course…
  • When I fail an exam…
  • My body resistance…
  • I get tired…
  • I set a goal…
  • Working out…
  • My stress…
  • On eating too much chocolate…

Grammar

4. Mixed Grammar

  1. Many different kinds of cars are manufactured by the Chinese.
  2. My dad took his car to the garage so he could have it repaired.
  3. I hope my book will be published soon.
  4. If it rains, the concert may be cancelled.
  5. I will make sure the parcel is delivered to your home.

5. Mixed Tenses and Causative

  1. Fell off / Injured / Have / Examined
  2. Have / Painted / Looks / Is being painted / Cover / Won’t be damaged
  3. Snows / Is covered / Breaks down / Have / Repaired

6. Technology and Innovation

  1. Spend
  2. Was invented
  3. Can be set up
  4. Enables
  5. Are seated
  6. Doesn’t interfere
  7. Can be bought
  8. Have it installed

Reading Unit 5: Getting Healthy with Apps

Comprehension

1. True or False

  • False – All users have to do is record the amount of time they have to work out.
  • False – All users have to do is to pre-set a 30-minute ‘wake up window’.
  • False – There is growing evidence to suggest that health applications may indeed be beneficial.

2. Key Ideas

  • People are becoming increasingly health-conscious.
  • They receive feedback from a nutritionist.
  • Feel tired throughout the day.

App Functions

  • For Thin-Cam, users take a picture of the food they’re eating.
  • Gain generates a personal workout based on the users’ time and equipment available.
  • Sleep Cycle asks users to provide a 30-minute “wake up window”.