Vocabulary and Speech Exercises

I. Match the opposites of the following words.

· Always, balanced, enough, raw, quick, low, to increase, rich, lean, useful, less, benefit, maximum, to reduce, to ease, important.

· To worsen, slow, minimum, unimportant, fat, unbalanced, poor, high, cooked, harm, never, decrease, to worsen, harmful, more, to expand, insufficient.

II. Say if the following statements are true or false. Correct the false statements to make them true.

1. Food nourishes and keeps the body working.

2. You must eat only protein food to keep your diet balanced.

3. Vitamin A clots blood, builds protein, and regulates blood calcium levels.

4. Vitamin Khelps you have healthy skin and hair, good eyesight, growth, and development.

5. Fruitcontains vitamin C, dietary fiber and many nutrients.

6. Fresh fruit eaten with skin are especially unhealthy.

7. Meat is a poor source of energy necessary for growth and development.

8. Iron can be found in the red meat.

9. Fish doesn’t reduce your risk of heart disease.

III. Match the words and their explanations.

1. … knows a lot about food and healthy eating, is an expert in food.

2. … happens when there’s not enough water in your body.

3. … food turned into the kind of sugar which provides fuel for your cells.

4. … food that has few of the nutrients your body needs.

5. … is the study of food and how it works in your body.

6. … having too much body fat.

7. … unit of measurement energy.

8. … broken down by the body into simple sugars, the major source of energy for the body.

(calorie, overweight, nutritionist, glucose, carbohydrate, junk food, nutrition, dehydration)

IV. Complete the sentences by choosing appropriate prepositions from those in the brackets.

1. Our body needs energy and nutrition (to/for) optimal growth and development.

2. Combine fruit (to/with) low fat yoghurt (for/on) a snack.

3. Fish and seafoodare high (in/of) protein and packed (with/for) nutrients.

4. (For/on) a healthy dessert, bake apples or pears (with/from) cinnamon.

5. When eaten (at/for) the same meal, vitamin C, found (in/of) vegetables, aids absorption of iron (from /out of) meat.

6. Vitamin D is important (for/to) the development (of/in) the brain (of/at) the unborn child.

7. Finish up your meal (with/from) a piece of fresh fruit or a portion of grapes.

8. Add chopped fresh fruit (to/in) your breakfast cereal.

V. Read the English proverbs, try to give their Ukrainian equivalents.

· Vegetables from your neighbour’s garden are always the best.

· Honey is sweet, but bees sting.

· The sweetest nuts have the hardest shells.

· Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

· Forbidden fruit is the sweetest.

· A man must not swallow more than he can digest.

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