HEALTHY LIVING FOR TEENS

C. Grammar
• Modal verbs in first conditional sentences
I. Circle the correct modal verbs to complete the following sentences.
1. If you arrive early, you should / can have time to play a game with me.
2. Nam can / must help with your homework if you ask him nicely.
3. If you visit my hometown, you might / must come to stay with me.
4. If she phones you, you may / must tell me.
5. She must / can be on time if she wants to come with us.
6. You might /should catch a cold if you don’t put on a jacket.
7. If we win this game, we should/ might have a chance to have a trip to Singapore.
8. I may / must come to your house after school if I have enough time.
II. Complete the sentences, using modal verbs given in brackets.
1. If you keep eating fast food, ________________________________________. (might)
2. If you promise to finish your homework early, ______________________________________. (can)
3. If my dad cooks dinner tonight, ________________________________________. (may)
4. If Mai feels unwell, ________________________________________. (should)
5. If the child doesn’t want to have toothache, _____________________________________. (should)
6. If we have more money, ________________________________________. (can)
7. If you want to study abroad, ________________________________________. (should)
8. If you want to eat green and fresh vegetables every day, _____________________________.
(must)
9. If you eat healthy food every day, ________________________________________. (may)
10. If we try to do our best to get over difficulties, ___________________________________. (might)
III. Read the situations, and complete the sentences with suitable modal verbs in first conditional
sentences. In some cases, there are more than one option.
1. You are going to have a picnic with your classmates on the beach, but you don’t want to have a
picnic in the rain. You told your mother this.
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2. Your father will give you some money to buy books tomorrow. You would like to buy a new Oxford
dictionary. You tell your friend this.
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3. You want to go to your friend’s birthday party tonight. Your mother allows you to go there, but asks
you to come home by 9 p.m. Here is what she tells you.
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4. The important exam is coming but you think that your best friend hasn’t studied enough for it. You
tell your friend this.
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5. Your mother needs some milk to make a cake, and you may go past a convenience shop on the way
home. You tell your mother this.
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6. You can see that your young brother studies hard in the evening and gets tired. You tell him this.
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7. Your friend would like to work for a foreign company in the future, and English is an international
language in the world of business. You tell your friend this.
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8. You hear that some of the ice in Antarctica has melted, and you worry about the sea level.
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9. The sea level is getting higher, and you worry about some islands in the oceans.
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10. You think that there will be some changes in the timetable for next week, and you would like your
friend to help you. You tell your friend this.
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D. Reading
• Reading about how someone could have a well-balanced life when he /
she was at school
I. Read the text, and choose the correct answers.
Learning a second or foreign language isn’t always easy for adults. When we are young, it is
quite easy to learn a new language. But when we become adults, our brains have to work harder.
In a recent study, researchers in China and Italy discovered that doing some exercise while studying
could help us learn. Forty adult Chinese men and women, who were studying English, took part in the
experiment.
The researchers put them into two groups. The first group continued to study English as
before - sitting in a classroom. The second group combined studying with exercise. The students
started riding exercise bikes 20 minutes before the start of the lesson. They continued riding the bikes
slowly during the lessons.
In each lesson, both groups learned 40 new words, looking at each word with a picture several
times on a screen. After a rest, the students did a test. Over a two-month time period, the students
did eight similar lessons.
In the tests, the students who used the exercise bikes got a higher score. And when the
researchers asked the students to come back a month after the experiment, the same students
remembered more words.
The researchers believe that the experiment shows that learning improves when students do
some physical activity at the same time. So, don’t be surprised to find exercise bikes in the classroom
at your next English class.
(Adapted from Achievers)
1. What is the best title for the text?
A. Five Tips for learning a language B. Keep Fit to stay Fit
C. Exercise Your Brain D. Test Your Grammar
2. Who took part in the experiment?
A. a group of Chinese and Italian students B. twenty Chinese students
C. a group of students of English D. adult researchers from two countries
3. The students in the second group used exercise bikes ___________.
A. during the lesson B. between the lessons
C. before and during the lesson D. before and after the lesson
4. The focus of the experiment was on ___________.
A. learning new vocabulary B. communicating in English
C. reading comprehension D. keeping fit
5. What did the experiment show?
A. There was very little difference between the two groups.
B. The second group could communicate a lot better.
C. Learning improves when students focus on studying.
D. Students who did the exercise remembered more words.
II. Read the text, and then do the tasks that follow.
Why Do We Use Time-Management Skills?
It is important that you develop effective strategies for managing your time to balance the
conflicting demands of time for study, leisure, and work. Time-management skills are valuable not
only in job-hunting, but also in many other aspects of life: from revising for examinations to working
in a vacation job.
Sometimes it may seem that there isn't enough time to do everything that you need to. This
can lead to a build-up of stress. When revising for examinations, or during your final year when you
have to combine the pressures of intensive study with finding time to apply for jobs, good
management of your time can be particularly important. Once we have identified ways in which we
can improve the management of our time, we can begin to adjust our routines and patterns of
behaviour to reduce any time-related stress in our lives.
Some of these skills include setting clear goals, breaking your goals down into several steps,
and reviewing your progress towards your goals.
Other skills involved include prioritising - focusing on urgent and important tasks rather than
those that are trivial or don't move you towards your goals; organising your work schedule; list
making to remind you of what you need to do.
(Source: Internet}
Task 1. Read the text and select the statement that expresses its main idea.
A. Priority makes us have time-management skills and focus on urgent and important tasks.
B. Time-management skills help US do better in study and work and enjoy life more.
C. Good skills to deal with work may help you a lot in job-hunting after graduation.
Task 2. Read the text again, and then decide whether the statements are true (T), false (F) or not
given (NG). Correct the false statements.
1. Time-management skills help us to balance our time between study, leisure, and work.
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2. Time-management skills also bring more productivity to our work.
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3. When we have good time management, we can reduce stress in our lives.
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4. We should focus on achieving our goals, and spending time checking progress is wasteful.
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5. Priority requires us to do trivial tasks first.
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Task 3. Answer the following questions.
1. Why are time-management skills important?
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2. Why do students revising for examinations build up stress?
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3. How can we reduce any time-related stress in our lives?
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4. What is the procedure to achieve our goals?
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5. What does the skill of priority mostly involve?
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