WEEK 6: Health, Communication and Work, Life modalsbeneficial adj Highly beneficial, beneficial for, extremely beneficial, beneficial to Running is highly beneficial to my health.. compe
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beneficial (adj) Highly beneficial, beneficial for, extremely
beneficial, beneficial to
Running is highly beneficial to my health
competition (n) Healthy competition, in competition with,
intense competition, competition against
I like playing football because my friends and I like to have a healthy competition between us
compete (v) Able to compete / successfully compete /
directly compete
My football team was able to successfully compete in the tournament
Unfortunately, we were not able to win the championship
condition (n) Live in….conditions, work
under… conditions, unacceptable conditions
Many people across S.E Asia live in and work under unacceptable conditions
cure (n) search for a cure, miracle cure, affect a cure Due to a lifetime of smoking, people are dying of lung cancer Unfortunately,
there is no miracle cure for them
disease (n) Suffer from disease, outbreak of disease,
fatal disease
Many people suffer from the disease of obesity Obesity is a fatal disease
effect (n) Have an effect, dramatic effect, main effect I think exercising every day could have a dramatic effect on your health
effective (adj) Prove effective, extremely effective, remain
effective
To my mind, doing yoga is extremely effective
encourage (v) Actively encourage, strongly encourage,
designed to encourage
I think everyone should actively encourage their family to do at least five hours of exercise a day
energy (n) Full of energy, waste energy, source of
energy
After I sleep well, I am full of energy, so it’s easy for me to exercise in the morning
exhausted (adj) Feel exhausted, physically exhausted,
exhausted from + (verb+ing), emotionally exhausted
I often go swimming, but afterwards I feel physically exhausted I am also exhausted from jogging around the lake
harm (v) Harm the environment, harm the
economy, harm society
One disadvantage of eating fast food is that it harms people’s health In other words, eating things like hamburgers and French fries could kill you
health (n) Bad/good for (sbdy) health, mental health,
physical health
In my opinion, I think swimming might be good for people’s physical health healthily (adv) Live healthily, eat healthily An important part of living healthily is eating healthily
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lifestyle
I think everyone should be fit and healthy and live a healthy lifestyle.
lack (n) Serious lack, complete lack, from a lack of… To begin with, there is a serious lack of healthy food options at restaurants The
main reason for this is because people are not eating healthily these days
lifestyle (n) Modern lifestyle, active lifestyle, expensive
lifestyle
In addition, having an active lifestyle can be extremely difficult For example, people who work ten hours a day probably won’t have time to exercise
minor (adj) Seem minor, fairly minor, minor problems Over exercising could cause minor problems to your body
negative (adj) Negative person, negative effects, being
negative
A second advantage of maintaining a work like balance is that it can prevent people from being too negative at work or school, but many individuals continue
to keep long hours at their job or at libraries
obesity (n) Childhood obesity, obesity problem, tackle
obesity
Exercising helps tackle obesity
overweight (adj) Overweight patient, slightly overweight,
severely overweight
I could one day be severely overweight unless I get off the couch and exercise
positive (n) One positive, positive effect, another
positive
Doing yoga has had a positive effect on me
prevent (v) Aim to prevent, prevent from + (verb-ing,),
successfully prevent
Nothing will prevent me from improving my lifestyle
result (v) Easily result, likely to result, to result in An active lifestyle is likely to result in good health
suffer (v) Suffer needlessly, suffer from, suffer in
silence
Too many people suffer in silence if they feel exhausted from working too much
treat (v) Treat fairly, treat differently, tend to treat Additionally, people tend to get treated differently if they are obese To be more
precise, life is harder is individuals are overweight
unhealthy (adj) Unhealthy lifestyle, unhealthy obsession,
unhealthy diet
These days, a lot of people seem to have an unhealthy lifestyle