nutrition fitness health for newcomers lamees dantas

Nutrition Fitness Health

For

Newcomers

Lamees Dantas

Nutrition • Food (attached handout)• Different Kinds of Fat• Healthy Eating • Reading Nutrition labels (attached sample)• Reading Calorie Charts• Vitamins and Minerals• Eating on a budget (attached sample)• Sodium• Dietary Guidelines/requirements

Health• Heart Disease• Self esteem/depression• Low/High Blood pressure (attached sample)• Type 1& 2 Diabetes• Some Cancers• Allergies• Cholesterol• Arthritis

Fitness

• Daily exercise (examples of classroom exercise)• Body Functions• Heat Rate (attached sample)• Body mass Index/weight (attached sample)• Losing fat/Gaining muscle

ESL Component

• Vocabulary idioms/phrases, identifying fruit/vegetables/body parts, phrasal verbs

• Grammar Ask/answer Q’s , First Conditionals, quantifiers, modal auxiliaries

• Reading • Writing food diary, tables, recipes, surveys, diet plans, exercise routines

Use a lot of pictures from magazines ,pamphlets .Watch a TV special on any of the topics(the Dr. Oz show weeknights at 5:00). Go into the Computer Lab and have them locate websites and answer questions based on their findings Watch some podcasts together as a class.Visit various food/cooking websites:• http://www.epicurious.com/ • http://food.cookinglight.com/ • http://www.foodtv.com/ • http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/

Invite visitors from Toronto Public Health to come in and speak to the class.