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Unit 2 Fitness and Health

Section 1 Listening Strategies

Part II Consolidation

Listen and identify the difference between two words ineach pair and circle the word you hear

A. / s / vs. / θ/

1. thing

2. tense

3. think

4. path

5. sick

6. sank

B. /ɪ/ vs. / i:/

1. he’s

2. each

3. sit

4. lead

5. it

6. live

7. seek

8. a pill

9. bit

10.teen

C. /æ/ vs. /ɑ/ or /ɒ/

1. hat

2. ad

3. box

4. racket

5. mop

6. pat

7.sock

8. cot

9. black

Section II Listening Comprehension

Part I Dialogues

Dialogue 1

Listening to a financial trader talking about the stress of his job and how he handles stress.

Listen to the dialogue and answer the following questions.

1. Stress is generally driven by the feelingof being out of control of a situation and the feeling of a situation controlling you.

2. The feeling of uncertainty, being out of control.

3. Cooking a meal.

4. Watching some TV before going to bed.

5. At least once a week.

Dialogue 2

1. Yes. Because of stress-related factors.

2.It can lead to a change in direction, success, and stimulate you to do something new.

3. It keeps him on his toes and makes him concentrated and focused.

4. Trading.

5. No. It remains constant.

Dialogue 3

A. Listen to the dialogue once and jot down the key words relating to the main idea.

obesity, diet, less active, more food, lose weight, fad diets

B. Listen again and decide whether each of the followingstatements is true [T] or false [F].

1.T

2. F

3. T

4. F

5. T

Part II Passages

Passage 1

1. F (A study found that only four percent of elementary schools provided

daily physical education all year for all grades. )

2. T

3. T

4. F (Yet many parents today still have bad memories of being chosen last

for teams because teachers favored the good athletes in class. )

5. T

6. F (Some parents like the idea of avoiding competitive sports in P.E. class. Yet others surely dislike that idea.) Passage 2

Our first word is “diet”. It has four l etters and four sounds: D-I-E-T. Diet. Diet can be a noun or a verb. There are some important (1) differences in meaning.

Firstly “diet” as a noun. This mean s the food and drink (2) taken by a person or group of people.

—Footballers have to eat a good diet in order to