Dinner time then and now, Childhood obesity goes global        

VOCABULARY LIST

“FOCUS on IELTS”, UNIT 1: Health’s “magic bullet”

 1. “magic bullet”/ panacea / a remedy for all diseases or ills; (p. 8)

 2. physical activity / inactivity;

 3. burn calories;

 4. on a regular basis;   (p.9)

 5. healthy / unhealthy lifestyle;

 6. develop / maintain physical fitness and overall health;        (p. 10)

 7. strengthen muscles;

 8. the cardiovascular system;

 9. enhance athletic skills;

10. boost / suppress the immune system;

11. improve mental health;

12. prevent depression;

13. sedentary activities;

14. work out / workout;

“The walking school bus “      (p. 13)

15. significant decline in the number of;

16. alter the trend;

17. environmentally-conscious;

18. under the guidance of;

19. enjoy the benefits of physical activity;

20. congregate at a designated location;

21. operate to a regular timetable;

22. regardless of the weather;

23. provide (children) with time to socialize;

24. recurrent theme;

25. traffic congestion;

26. on average;

 

“LANGUAGE LEADER”, UNIT 3 (p. 26)

 1. fair play / to play fair / foul play – contrary to rules;

 2. get injured;

 3. indoors / outdoors;

 4. compete as an individual;

 5. be part of a team;

 6. complicated rules;

 7. take up (a sport);

 8. spectator sport;        (p. 27)

 9. become skilled in doing …

10. be instrumental in doing…

11. excellent coach;

12. have no more contact with…

13. introduction of money and business into sport;

14. be on the ball;  If someone is on the ball, they are very alert and aware of what is happening.

15. move the goalposts; to change the rules while someone is trying to do something in order to make it more difficult for them We'd almost signed the contract when the other guys moved the goalposts and said they wanted more money.

16. take one’s eye off the ball; to not give your attention to what you are doing at the time

If you're a manager, you can't afford to take your eye off the ball for one minute.

17. a level playing field;a situation in which everyone has the same chance of succeeding

If the tax systems are different in each European country, how can industries start on a level playing field?

18. a whole new ball game; a completely different situation, often one which is difficult or which you know little about

We'd done a lot of climbing in Scotland but the Himalayas were a whole new ball game.

19. score an own goal; An own goal occurs when a player scores a goal that is registered against his or her own team.

20. start the ball rolling;

21. martial arts;               (p. 28)

22. build one’s own sense of self-respect;

23. effective techniques to protect yourself;

24. self-confidence / self-discipline / self- control / self-defense / self-development;

25. agility, agile;

26. improve the body’s physical stamina and suppleness; (p. 29)

 

UNIT 4, MEDICINE       (p. 38)

 1. diagnose disease /diagnose oneself as having a particular illness / be diagnosed with medical

conditions (problems);

 2. hypnosis / hypnotize someone / be hypnotized by…

 3. acupuncture, aromatherapy, physiotherapy, transplant;

 4. live a healthy life;

 5. act on instinct, use logical reasoning;

 6. prescribe medication (anti-depressant tablets, painkillers, antibiotics, penicillin);

 7. write a prescription;

 8. suffer from diabetes, …

 9. take insulin;

10. eating disorders treated by a psychiatrist;

11. X-rays / Diagnostic Radiology;     (p. 39)

12. medical speciality (radiologist, …

13. pay for health care;

14. medical advances / breakthroughs;

15. live to a very old age;

16. test drugs on both animals and humans;

17. pave the way for the treatment of infectious (contagious) diseases;

18. refine (a substance);

19. mass production of (penicillin);

20. illness (cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, flu, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, malaria…);

21. the pharmaceutical market;

22. pharmaceuticals (pharmaceutical companies);

23. be infected by a parasite;

24. develop resistance to…

25. contract / catch / get an illness;

26 a weak form of the virus that causes the disease;

27. vaccine / de vaccinated against…

28. perform an operation on sb.;                    

29. improve the quality of life;

 

“FOCUS on IELTS”, UNIT 2

Food for thought      (p. 18)

1. eating habits;

2. skimmed / semi-skimmed milk;

3. high-fibre cereal;

4. wholemeal (wholegrain) bread;

5 confectionery;

6. eat a balanced diet;

7. cut down on fat (sugar);

8. lean meat, poultry, fish, low-fat dairy products;

9. nutritious / nutrition;

10. contain 260 calories per 100g.;

11. protein, vitamins, carbohydrates, fat, starches;

Focus on listening 1, 2  (pp.22, 23)

12. do (conduct, carry out) a survey of students’ eating habits;

13. an information leaflet about healthy eating;

14. once in a while (sometimes);

15. skip breakfast;

16. once in a blue moon - To do something “once in a blue moon” is to do it very rarely: That company puts on a good performance only once in a blue moon. The phrase refers to the appearance of a second full moon within a calendar month,

which actually happens about every thirty-two months.

17. be in the habit of doing smth.;

18. have a sweet tooth;

19. organic food;

20 to round off the morning, we can… If you round off an activity with something, you end the activity by doing something that provides a clear or satisfactory conclusion to it.

The Italian way is to round off a meal with an ice-cream...

This rounded the afternoon off perfectly...

He rounds off by proposing a toast to the attendants.

21. allot, be allotted – If something is allotted to someone, it is given to them as their share.

The seats are allotted to the candidates who have won the most votes...

We were allotted half an hour to address the committee.

22. intake - Your intake of a particular kind of food, drink, or air is the amount that you eat, drink, or breathe in.

Your intake of alcohol should not exceed two units per day...

Dinner time then and now, Childhood obesity goes global        

23. patterns of food consumption;

24. convenience meals (food) – frozen, dried, or canned food that can be heated and prepared very quickly and easily (полуфабрикаты);

25. pasta products;

26. account for - If a particular thing accounts for a part or proportion of something, that part or proportion consists of that thing, or is used or produced by it.

Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.

Meat and fish account for a fifth of the UK’s total food market.

27. obesity, obese;

28. ingest - to take, as food, into the body ( opposed to egest).

ingestion - Every ingestion of food can affect our mood or thinking processes.

29. digest - When food digests or when you digest it, it passes through your body to your stomach. Your stomach removes the substances that your body needs and gets rid of the rest.

Do not undertake strenuous exercise for a few hours after a meal to allow food to digest...

She couldn't digest food properly...

Nutrients from the digested food can be absorbed into the blood.

If you digest information, you think about it carefully so that you understand it. They learn well but seem to need time to digest information... If you digest some unpleasant news, you think about it until you are able to accept it. All this has upset me. I need time to digest it all.

30. for hourson end - When something happens for hours, days, weeks, or years on end, it happens continuously and without stopping for the amount of time that is mentioned.

He is a wonderful companion and we can talk for hours on end...


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