MINUTE WALK AND PLAYS GATE-BALL WITH HER FRIENDS THREE TIMES A WEEK...

30-minute walk and plays gate-ball with her friends three times a week. There is

nothing unusual about this, except that Chiako is 102, years old. She is not alone

- there are hundreds of healthy centenarians who lead similar lives in

Okinawa.

Okinawa is a group of islands between Japan and Taiwan. Near a beach,

there is a large stone with the following words on it: 'At 70 you are still a

child, at 80 you are just a youth, and at 90, if the ancestors invite you into

heaven, ask them to wait until you are 100, and then you might consider it.'

Okinawans manage to stay slim in old age by eating a low-calorie diet

which consists of three quarters plant food and one quarter animal food.

They eat seven servings of fruit and vegetables every day and they stop

eating when they are 80% full.

They also keep active by dancing, walking and gardening. In other

words, they do the things they enjoy.

Okinawans have developed a stress-resistant personality. Nobody is in a

hurry, timetables are non-existent and there is always tomorrow. Hundreds of people, both

young and old, go to the beach every day to wajtch the spectacular sunsets. In Okinawa there is

always time to watch tile sun set.

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As well as large extended families, Okinawans have strong networks of friends. 'When

someone is ill and doesn't come to work, a neighbour will always knock on their door to find

out how they are.'

There's no magic pill. If you have good friends, a healthy diet and a stress-free lifestyle,

you will live longer. It's as simple as that!

3 How different is you lifestyle from the one described on Okinawa? Compare with your partner.

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Lexis collocations:

1 Complete these collocations with words from the article on Okinawa.

a) How often do you go for a b ______ walk?

b) Do you think you 1 _____ a healthy lifestyle?

c) Do you feel that you are always i_____ a hurry?

d) Do you have a large e _____ family?

e) Do you have strong n _______ of friends?

2 Work with, a partner. Ask each other the questions In 1.

Anecdote

Think about the healthiest or fittest person you know. You are going to tell your partner about the

Choose from the list the things you want to talk about. Think about what you will say and

language you will need.

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What do they do for a living?

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Is it a man or a woman?

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How old are they?

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What do they do to stay healthy and fit?

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How do you know this person?

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Have they ever been unhealthy or unfit?

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How is their lifestyle different from yours?

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What do they look like?

Health farms

Listening

1 mi You are going to listen to a woman asking for information about a health farm.

a) What's the name of the health farm?

b) Why does she want the information?

c) What do you think her husband will think about her idea?

2 Complete t he s entences by c hoosing t he c orrect a lternatives and t hen 1 isten to t he c onversat

again."Tich

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the activities which her husband will do at the health farm.

a) He'll pass / take a fitness test.

d) He'll do / make two hours of yoga.

b) He'll make / go on a diet.

e) He'll do / have a sauna.

c) He'll take / have a cigarette

f) He'll make / go for a four-hour hike.

3 Work with a partner. Discuss there questions.

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Are there any health farms in your country like the one in the recording?

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What sort of people go to health farms?

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Would you like to go to one?

Close up

Future time clauses

the listening in the previous'section i

1 Work with a partner. Look at the following

sentences answer the questions.

Conjunction

+

Subordinate clause

+

Main clause

As soon as

+

he arrives

+

he'll take a fitness test.

If

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he has a cigarette

+

he'll be in big trouble.

When

+

he finishes the week

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he'll feel like a new man.

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a) Do these sentences refer to past, present or future time?

b) Which verb structure is used in tile main clause?

c) Which verb structure is used in the subordinate clause?

2 Which of the conjunctions in 1 suggests.

a) something will possibly happen?

b) something will certainly happen at a particular time?

c) something will happen immediately?

3 Look at how the sentences in 1 are formed. Is the following sentence structure also possible?

main

clause + conjunction + subordinate clause (He'll take a fitness test as soon as he arrives.)

4 Complete these sentences with the correct verb structure.

a)

If there's nothing good on TV this evening, I go /'// go out.

b)

When I'll go / go on holiday next summer I'll send you a postcard.

c)

I'm going straight home as soon as the lesson will finish / finishes.

d)

When I'll have / have enough money I'm going to buy a new jacket.

e) If I get up early tomorrow I think I go / '11 go for a run.

5 How many sentences in 4 are true for you? Re-write the sentences as necessary so that they are all

true for you. Compare your sentences with a partner.

will for prediction

1 Complete each of these quotes by inserting will in the correct position. Match each quote with the

person who you think made the prediction.

1 Bob Metcalf, founder of 3Com Corporation, in

1995 (A year later, he took his magazine article,

a) 'Man will not fly for fifty years.'

liquefied it in a blender, and ate it with a spoon.)

2 Wilbur Wright to his brother Orville in 1901. (in

b) 'No woman in my time be Prime Minister.'