HEALTH (5-6 GRADES)

A MINUTE FOR HANDOUTS

HEALTH

5-6 GRADES

Today I decided to start a very responsible topic that our students will need more than once throughout their lives - Health.

It is very important to approach this topic seriously and present it so that students do not have any problems in speaking freely on topics that concern our health.

1. This worksheet includes different questions about health. It is appropriate for speaking classes. Hope it helps.

2. This worksheet is meant to be used with teenagers or young adults. The ad focuses on the different lifestyles of our grandparents. The author took advantage of the topic to practice the structucture "used to" It is also a good springboard to talk about healthy habits .

3. This worksheet has information adapted from http://www.choosemyplate.gov/. It requires students to fill up the parts of the food pyramid and extract information from the pictures to write a 50 word email about good nutrition and living a healthy lifestyle.

4.This is a reading comprehension exercise followed by some group work involving brainstorming prior to a class discussion. It is a life skills lesson which focuses on raising student awareness on how to look after themselves if/when they catch a cold.

5. Students will play the role of a parent and child. The child has to describe an illness and its symptoms to avoid going to school, and the parent has to try to catch the child lying. There is a built-in class assessment--the role play has to address several questions which the class must be able to answer when the role play is complete. I usually have the students start by answering the questions first and building their dialogue around the answers, and it works very well!