we3e_sb02_u04.mp4
EXERCISE 04: 18 - 22
I. Watch the TED Talk. Circle the correct words to complete the sentences.
18. Amy Purdy grew up in Las Vegas //
Los Angeles.
19. Purdy's disease caused her to lose parts of her body and the hearing in her left // right ear.
20. On her 21st birthday, Purdy received a new foot //
kidney from her father.
21. Purdy won two gold // silver World Cup medals for snowboarding
22. Purdy has learned to rely on her parents //
imagination.
EXERCISE 05: 23 - 28
II. Complete each sentence from the video with one word.
23. At the age of 19, a day after I ________ high school, I moved to a place where it snowed.
24. I went home from work early one day with what I thought was the ________.
25. When my parents wheeled me out of the ________, I felt like I had been pieced back together.
26. I was absolutely ________ and emotionally broken.
27. And that is when it dawned on me... I could be as ________ as I wanted!
28. And that is when a new ________ in my life began.
III. Read the quotation. Then discuss the questions with a partner.
"And this is when I learned that our borders and our obstacles can only do two things:
One, stop us in our tracks; or two, force us to get creative."
—Amy Purdy
Questions to discuss:
1. What were two or three obstacles Purdy faced after her illness?
2. Before she went snowboarding again, what did Purdy imagine?
3. How did Purdy get the "feet" she needed in order to snowboard again?
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UNIT 04: THE BODY
FOUNDATION – LESSON 08
ACTIVITY 01 – READING
I. Tell a partner what makes you feel a lot of stress.
going to the doctor or dentist meeting new people speaking to a group taking an important exam traveling by car, plane, etc. your idea: _________
Do you think stress is harmful to your health? Why?
EXERCISE 01: QUESTIONS 01 - 03
II. Read the text. Match each university to the correct research result.
1. ________ University of Wisconsin
a. Helping other people can keep you healthy when you are under stress.
2. ________ Harvard University
b. People who believe stress prepares them for a challenge have open, relaxed blood vessels under stress.
3. ________ University at Buffalo
c. The belief that stress is harmful to one's health can be harmful to one's health.
EXERCISE 02: QUESTIONS 04 - 07
III. Circle T for true or F for false. Then correct the false statements to make them true.
4. For the University of Wisconsin study, participants were asked two questions. T // F 5. The way you think about stress affects how your body reacts to stress. T // F 6. Stress always causes blood vessels to become narrower. T // F 7. People who had a lot of contact with others had a higher risk of dying. T // F
READING PASSAGE
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Attitude Is Everything
Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist with some good news: Stress may not be the enemy of good health. McGonigal came to this conclusion after looking at three important health studies. In the first study, researchers at the University of Wisconsin asked 30,000 adults how much stress they had experienced during the past year. They also asked whether the participants thought this stress was harmful to their health. Eight years later, one group of participants was 43% more likely to have died–the people who had a lot of stress and believed that stress was bad for them. Those who had a lot of stress but did not believe it was harmful actually had the lowest risk of dying!
According to McGonigal, the way we think about stress is important because, "Your body believes you." In fact, our mind and attitude can have beneficial effects on our health and may help prevent some kinds of serious illness. In a study at Harvard, researchers taught participants to believe that signs of stress—a faster heartbeat, for example—were the body's way of preparing them to meet a challenge. Under stress, most people's blood vessels become narrower. That makes it harder for blood to flow and may contribute to heart disease. But the
blood vessels of the study participants stayed open and relaxed, simply because they thought about stress in a different way.
McGonigal also points to a study of the connection between stress and human contact.
Researchers from the University at Buffalo studied people who had experienced very stressful events during the past year.
Surprisingly, if they had spent a lot of time helping others, they had no increased risk of dying. Compare that to a 30% increase for those who had not helped others. It seems that enjoyable activities such as giving a friend a ride or babysitting a neighbor's child can help us stay healthy even under stress.
+ participants: people who volunteer for a research study
+ stress: worry and tension due to difficulties in life
+ enemy: the person(s) on the opposite side in a struggle
+ narrower: having a smaller distance from one side to the other
ACTIVITY 03 – USE SUPPORTING DETAILS
Page 60 of 168 A good topic sentence gives the main idea of a paragraph. In addition, a good paragraph includes details to support, or give more information about, the main idea.
Some types of supporting details:
descriptions examples explanations facts reasons
I. Underline the topic sentence in the following paragraph. Then answer the questions below.
Although there are several ways to prevent the spread of disease, staying home when you are sick may be the best way. When you stay home, no one at school or at work has contact with your germs. Going to work or school and covering your mouth when you cough is less effective than staying at home. Some of your germs are still sent into the air when you talk and breathe. And washing your hands after every cough or sneeze may be the least effective way to keep other people healthy. It is not possible to wash your hands that many times in a day.
1. What is the topic of the paragraph? (i.e., What is the paragraph about?)
_______________________________________________________________________
2. What is the controlling idea? (i.e.. What does the paragraph say about the topic?) _______________________________________________________________________
II. Complete the chart with supporting details from the paragraph in I.
Reason to stay at home when sick
Reason why covering one's mouth is less effective
Reason why washing one's hands often may be the least
effective
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ACTIVITY 04 – GRAMMAR POINT: COMPARATIVES &