Lesson 1 - Nourishment

Introductions 
• What’s your name?
• What’s your major?
• Where do you work?
• What are your hobbies?
• Do you have any siblings ? ( if yes, please share their name/names)

Memory game
Read the list in 15 seconds
Write the words you remember from the list in the chat-box
Try it again with list B

List A : List B:
Plum Elbow Giraffe Caravan Fruit Animal Home Body
Puppy Banana Foot Apple Plum Giraffe House Foot
Pony Cherry Barge Bungalow Banana Puppy Apartment Knee
Apple Donkey Bungalow Elbow
Cherry Pony Caravan Hand

Facts & Opinions:
Fact : Grouping similar items together helps the brain memorize words easier
Opinion: The time was too short.
Fact: Using group headings helps divide the information into manageable tasks
Opinion: The words were too many.
- Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, and about 66 percent of the world’s cocoa production comes from the west
of Africa.
- Commercial chocolate often contains more sugar than cocoa.
- Chocolate can actually be good for you. Studies show that dark chocolate is able to lower cholesterol, reduce
blood pressure, stimulate the brain and prevent cancer.
- The first milk chocolate was made in 1875, by Henri Nestle.
- Chocolate does contain caffeine, although only a very small amount. You would have to eat 10 chocolate bars to get
as much caffeine as is in a cup of coffee.
- Over 17,000 people in Belgium work in the chocolate industry. The country has over 2,000 chocolate shops and
produces an estimated 2,000 tons of chocolate in a year.
- It is extremely rare to have an allergy to chocolate and it can actually help to cure depression. Women are much
more likely to be addicted to it than men, and more men prefer dark chocolate to the milk variety.
- Chocolate chips were first used in baking in 1937 and today over 17 billion chocolate chips are eaten every year.
Listen to CD (1.03) match the food with their benefits…
• 1. Chocolate a. improve motor skills
• 2. Blueberries b. help the heart
• 3. Whole grains c. help you focus

1. Most kinds of foods have health benefits.
a. Advantages b. Disadvantages
2. The best way to get nourishment is to consume five pieces of fruits every day.
a. eat, drink, or use b. avoid
3. The health benefits of food diminish over time- fresh food is best.
a. Become larger b. become smaller
4. If you want to stay healthy, the key is to eat well.
a. Least important thing b. Most important thing
5.Drinking caffeine helps lengthen your attention span.

a. Make shorter b. Make longer
6. Eating breakfast before school is recommended.

a. Reserved b. advised
7. The effects from caffeine are only temporary.

a. Existing for a short period of time b. existing forever
Brain food
• What do you think brain food is?

• What are examples of brain food?
• What are benefits of eating brain food?
Let’s discuss these questions based on the video.
• What happens to us when we get older?
• What happens to us when we are teenagers?
• When does our memory start to decline?
• What happens in our near 40s?
• When does our hair begin to gray and thin?
• What can regular exercise do for us?
• What foods should be added to our diets?
• What are some things that are reduced when following a healthy diet?
Activity Time: Role play
• One will be a nutritionist and the other will be patient talking about some
problems they are facing due to the lack of nutrition.
• Use your vocabulary words please:
• ( diminish- benefits- consume- key- lengthen- recommended – temporary)

Chocolate
Vegetables
Coffee
Strawberries
Fish
Rice
Listen to CD (1.02)Listen and circle the best answer.
• Coffee and chocolate have (similar/ different) benefits.

• Brain foods (can/ cannot) raise your IQ.
• The (memory/ heart) benefits when someone consumes sugar.
• The benefits from sugar and chocolate last for a (short/ long) time.
• People should avoid too much (chocolate/ fish).
• The doctor says that fish has (bad/ good) fats.
• Memory is better after a healthy (breakfast / lunch)
Discuss this with a partner…
• Do you eat any of the brain foods mentioned in the passage? Which ones? Do you
think they provide any benefits.
• Were you always like this or just lately?
• What differences do you see in yourself when you eat brain food?
• What impact do you think food has on intellect?

Assignment :
Tell the class about a meal you once had whether
you cooked it or you ate it out?
• Use words to express in detail:
• Chop up
• Pick up
• Heat up
• Cool down
• Dine in
• Take away
• Take out

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Introductions 

• What’s your name?

• What’s your major?

• Where do you work?

• What are your hobbies?

• Do you have any siblings ? ( if yes, please share their name/names)

Read the list in 15 seconds

Try it again with list B

Plum Elbow Giraffe Caravan Fruit Animal Home Body

Puppy Banana Foot Apple Plum Giraffe House Foot

Pony Cherry Barge Bungalow Banana Puppy Apartment Knee

Apple Donkey Bungalow Elbow

Cherry Pony Caravan Hand

- Commercial chocolate often contains more sugar than cocoa.

- The first milk chocolate was made in 1875, by Henri Nestle.

• 1. Chocolate a. improve motor skills

• 2. Blueberries b. help the heart

• 3. Whole grains c. help you focus

a. eat, drink, or use b. avoid

a. Become larger b. become smaller

4. If you want to stay healthy, the key is to eat well.

a. Least important thing b. Most important thing

5.Drinking caffeine helps lengthen your attention span.

6. Eating breakfast before school is recommended.

7. The effects from caffeine are only temporary.

• What do you think brain food is?

• Use your vocabulary words please:

• ( diminish- benefits- consume- key- lengthen- recommended – temporary)

• Coffee and chocolate have (similar/ different) benefits.

• Were you always like this or just lately?

• What impact do you think food has on intellect?

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