nutrition fitness health for newcomers lamees dantas
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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.