Warmingup Activities

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Warming-up Activities

• Group work
• Questions for thought and discussion
• Background information
• Enriching your vocabulary
• Comparing the following words

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Group work

• Think about the pre-reading questions before
  listening and anticipate what we are going to
  read.

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Questions for thought and discussion

• Listen to a short passage carefully and then
  answer the following questions on page 32.

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Background information

• Medicine Science in Sports Exercise
• digestive system

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Background information

• Medicine Science in Sports Exercise
• A multidisciplinary journal featuring
  original investigations, clinical studies, and
  comprehensive reviews on current topics in sports
  medicine and exercise science. With this
  multidisciplinary journal, exercise
  physiologists, physiatrists, physical therapists,
  team physicians and athletic trainers get a vital
  exchange of information from basic and applied
  science, medicine, education, and allied health
  fields.

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Background information

• digestive system
• A series of hollow organs joined in a long,
  twisting tube from the mouth to the anus. Inside
  this tube is a lining called the mucosa. In the
  mouth, stomach, and small intestine, the mucosa
  contains tiny glands that produce juices to help
  digest food. .

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Enriching your vocabulary

• Read the sentences carefully and guess the
  meaning of the italicised term in each sentence
  according to the context and your own
  experiences.

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• Running is a test of human endurance and the
  power of mind over body.
• They spend their evenings consuming whiskey.
• Thats the trouble with those big powerful cars
  they consume too much fuel.

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• The money I get from teaching evening classes
  provides a supplement to my income from my job.
• The newspaper publishes a sports supplement
  every Monday.
• They had to get a job to supplement the family
  income.

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• The ball hit the ground and bounced high into the
  air.
• This ball has plenty of bounce while that one has
  lost its bounce.
• In the 200 meters, Lisa and Rose came first and
  third respectively.

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• The ratio of men to women at the meeting was ten
  to one.
• Plus, we didnt have enough money to take a trip
  to the seaside.
• The bill is 10, plus 1 for postage.

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• There are various pluses for us in going to this
  school its near our house, for one.
• The temperature is plus four degrees.

advantages
above zero positive
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• Were liable to make mistakes when were tired.
• He is liable for all the damage done by his
  workmen.

responsible by law
likely to do sth
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• Youll have to pay extra money if you exceed your
  luggage allowance.
• Most people who traveled in the course of their
  work were given traveling allowance.

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• Some foods are quicker to digest than others.
• The report contains too much to digest at one
  reading.

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• The doctor said Id cut a vessel in my leg.
• Laboratory equipment usually includes a variety
  of glass vessels.
• At the height of his shipping career, he owned
  about 60 vessels.

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• The sick man cannot endure the fatigue of the
  long journey.
• A molecule of water is made up of two atoms of
  hydrogen and one atom of oxygen.
• Protein is essential to life.

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• His jokes have been described as a compound of
  fears and worries.
• We had to build more rooms to give us more
  storage space.

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• The suggestions were only accepted in a modified
  form.
• Which part does the word modify?

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• The sudden fire undid months of hard work.
• Id eaten too much that I had to undo my belt by
  a couple of holes.
• This region is one in which a lot of cereal is
  grown.

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• Dont allow pleasure to interfere with duty.
• Interfering in other peoples relationships is
  always a mistake.
• I'd never interfere between a husband and wife.

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• We derive knowledge from practice.
• Thousands of English words derive from Latin.

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• Your faults of pronunciation can be remedied.
• The best remedy for grief is hard work.

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Comparing the following words

• average moderate
• journal magazine newspaper
• limit restrict
• typical striking attracting
• calculate estimate
• enough sufficient abundant plentiful
• indicate show
• advisable sensible
• shortcoming weakness fault 

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Homework

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text
  by heart.
• Go over the text and try to get the main idea of
  the text.
• Analyze the structure of the text.