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Unit 6 Healthy Living

This document provides vocabulary and reading materials related to nutrition for students. It includes a list of common nutrition-related vocabulary words and their definitions. It then presents a reading passage about a school developing a new canteen policy to address issues of overweight students and rubbish in the school yard. The policy bans certain unhealthy foods and limits packaging. This sparks controversy, with the canteen manager and local newspaper weighing in on the issues.

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Unit 6 Healthy Living

This document provides vocabulary and reading materials related to nutrition for students. It includes a list of common nutrition-related vocabulary words and their definitions. It then presents a reading passage about a school developing a new canteen policy to address issues of overweight students and rubbish in the school yard. The policy bans certain unhealthy foods and limits packaging. This sparks controversy, with the canteen manager and local newspaper weighing in on the issues.

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ENGLISH FOR NUTRITIONIST

Healthy Food for Healthy Life


This lesson teaches common vocabularies which are often found in the nutrition
especially in describing healthy food. By learning the vocabularies and basic
grammar the students can be more familiar and used them to improve their
comprehensibility of the reading text presented in this unit.

Vocabulary Enrichment
Vocabulary activity
Learn the following vocabularies and you can find their meaning by using your own
dictionary!

Dried fruit /draɪd/ /fruːt/


Wholegrain /ˈhəʊl.greɪn/
Sandwiches /ˈsæn d  .wɪdʒ/
Nourishing /ˈnʌr.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/
Packaging /ˈpæk.ɪ.dʒɪŋ/
Obesity /ə ʊ  ˈbiː.sɪ.ti/
Nutritious /njuːˈtrɪʃ.əs/
Fast food /ˌfɑːstˈfuːd/
Carbonated beverages
Overweight /ˌəʊ.vəˈweɪt/
/ˈkɑː.b ə n.eɪ.tɪd/ /ˈbev. ə r.ɪdʒ/
High fat /haɪ/ /fæt/ Sweet /swiːt/
Pie /paɪ/ Healthy choice /ˈhel.θi/ /tʃɔɪs/
Pasta /ˈpæs.tə/ Exercise /ˈek.sə.saɪz/
Hot dogs /ˈhɒt.dɒg/
Doughnut /ˈdəʊ.nʌt/
Vanilla /vəˈnɪl.ə/
Confectionery /kənˈfek.ʃ ə n.ri/
Fresh fruit juices /freʃ/ /fruːt/ /dʒuːs/

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Build your vocabularies through the aspect of meaning in the form of antonym!

New ………….
Short ………….
Bad ………….
Old ………….
Minimum ………….
Fresh ………….
Increase ………….
Ban ………….
Big ………….
Sweet ………….

Reading Skill
Text 1
Read the following text!

CANTEEN FOOD

In response to recent surveys about overweight teenagers, and rubbish in the school
yard, Strawberry Fields Secondary College has developed a new canteen policy which
lays down strict guidelines about the kind of food to be sold and its packaging.
Here is an extract from the new canteen policy
1. All food sold must be nutritious. This includes:
i. No carbonated beverages
ii. No high fat items such as pies, pasties, hot dogs, doughnuts, vanilla
slices
iii. No confectionery

2. The following will be available:


i. Fresh fruit juices, dried and fresh fruit
ii. Wholegrain sandwiches with wholesome fillings

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iii. Nourishing soups


3. Packaging will be kept to a minimum

The School Canteen Manager wrote the following letter to School Council
Dear Mr. Gradgrind
This new policy will mean the death of my business, a business which I’ve worked long
and hard to build. My profit come from selling the kinds of foods Council has so short-
sightedly prohibited. These are the kinds of foods kids want! If they don’t get them
from me kids will leave the school grounds at lunchtime to get them. How will School
Council feel if someone is run over the way to buy a pie?
As for packaging, surely it’s up to the school to teach environmental responsibility. No
one will want to take on the canteen as a business under this new policy. You will go
back to the bad old days of trying to get parent helpers and I think we can all
remember how successful that was.
Yours sincerely,
Wally Appleby

The new policy sparked such controversy that the local newspaper, the Strawberry
Field Gazette, published the following editorial.

Food for Thought


Recent national studies have shown an alarming increase in obesity in Australia’s
young. They eat too much fast food and spend too much time vegetating in front of TV
and computer games. We at the Strawberry Field Gazette are concerned. We don’t
want to see a nation of ‘teletubies’ growing up into overweight adults whose health
problems will cost the taxpayer big dollars.
On the other hand, we don’t believe banning anything is the answer. Forbidden fruit is
always the sweetest. Young people must be educated to make healthy choices. They
should be encouraged to exercise and enjoy sport, and in this parents and schools
must play a leading role. They must, however, lead by example and not by
prohibitions.
(Nutrition Learning Packages. United Nation Children’s Fund. Geneva)

Please answer the following questions based on the text!

1. Definitions: what is the meaning of the following?

- Policy - Wholesome
- Guidelines - Controversy
- Nutritious - Editorial
- Carbonated beverages - Alarming
- Confectionery - Obesity
- Wholegrain - Prohibitions
2. What two factors have caused the school to develop a new canteen policy?
3. Give example of types of food or drinks which have been banned

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4. What does Mr. Appleby say will happen to his business as result of the new
canteen policy?
5. What does he believe students will do if they can’t buy the foods they want
from him?
6. What two causes of obesity in young people does the editorial from the
Strawberry Fields Gazette identify?
7. What does the Gazette suggest should happen?

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