Objective: Students will be able to:

• Understand and discuss people’s feelings from a video• Understand and use conditional IF clauses• Learn some adjectives for qualifying events and information• Identify the main ideas and details of a radio program • Discuss and suggest reasons why obesity is difficult to solve• Summarize the content of a radio program from what they heard

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55856873

Activity 2

Play video

Activity 4

Feedback form (Click on link below)

Health&safety_adj.html

_____ Overweight is considered as an epidemic _____ Overweight is more serious than AIDS_____ Overweight is threatening American economy_____ Federal Government is seriously concerned_____ Overweight is responsible for many diseases_____ Unfortunately doctors have no real treatment_____ Overweight costs a lot of money to the State____ Obesity is caused by many bad habits_____ The problem will become worst in 20 to 23 years_____ the solution is to take a lot of exercise_____ The State has decided on an action plan to solve overweight

Activity 5 http://multimedia.play.it/m/audio/27063606/obesity-a-weighty-issue.htm

Person mentioned

occupation Optimistic?

Kathleen SebeliusDr David SatcherLanette Kovachi

Staff dietician at Subway Yes

Jeff Brown

Dr Walter Willet

Former Surgeon General

Secretary of Health and Human Services

Shop owner

Chairs nutrition department at Harvard School of Public Health NO

Yes

NO

NO

Activity 6

_____1 one in seven children is obese. Vicky Que reports the treatment of pediatric obesity.

_____2 … and found mothers were accurate in identifying themselves as overweight, but not their children.

_____3 they were almost physically incapacitated _____4 The mothers proudly described their children as big

boned_____5 mothers saw food as the way to nurture their children

_____6 the kids her age are already dating, yet no one seems to be interested in Jennifer

_____7 why is my older child skinny while the younger ones are heavy?

_____8 I really wish that they will give you a chart, of what kind of meals are fattening

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Activity 8

Ideas My answer Research finding

The problem of obesity has been around for 30 years T F T F

1/3 of American children is obese T F T F

Parents don’t realize that their children are overweight T F T F

When parents themselves are overweight they admit it. But they refuse to admit their children are overweight T F T F

Parents and doctors agree on the definition of overweight T F T F

Doctors are always first to realize kids are overweight and propose advice and help but parents refuse T F T F

Parents of overweight children find doctors very helpful when they seek for their help T F T F

At medical school doctors don’t learn how to talk to parents about their children’s obesity T F T F

Activity 9a & 9b http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1242896