Healthy Habits
Flyers coaching · Reading & Writing Part 6 · Health and Wellbeing
Our class health survey
This week I asked all 26 students in my class ten questions (1) ______ their health. Here are the results, and some surprises!
😴 SLEEP: Doctors say children our age need nine to eleven hours (2) ______ sleep. In my class, only eight people sleep that much. We shouldn’t look (3) ______ screens before bed.
🍎 FOOD: Twenty people eat fruit every day, (4) ______ only ten eat vegetables. Six people don’t eat breakfast. They (5) ______ miss it, because breakfast gives you energy.
🏃 EXERCISE: Most of us do sport (6) ______ least three times a week. My friend Mia is (7) ______ most active: she swims, dances and plays football!
My advice: we should sleep more, eat (8) ______ vegetables and play outside. We (9) ______ eat too many sweets or crisps. What about (10) ______? Are you healthy?
Vocabulary
- symptom — A sign that you are ill, like a cough or a high temperature.
- hospital — A building where doctors and nurses look after ill people.
- sweets — Small, sugary things to eat, like chocolates.
- crisps — Thin, dry slices of potato in a packet.
- vegetables — Plants that we eat, like carrots, beans and potatoes.
- healthy — Strong and well, not ill; or good for your body.
- injury — Damage to your body, for example when you fall and hurt your leg.
- diet — The food that you usually eat.
- habit — Something you do again and again, often without thinking.
- screen — The flat front of a computer, phone or TV where you see pictures.
Sample questions (10 questions)
- (1)
- for
- about
- of
- (2)
- for
- to
- of
- (3)
- at
- on
- to
Answers and hints from Migo appear when you do it online.