The Reading / Listening - Plant-based Diets - Level 0

A study says vegetables may not greatly cut the risk of heart attacks. People believe vegetables are important. However, other things may affect our heart. These include other things we eat, exercise, where we live, our income, and if we smoke or drink. Almost 400,000 answered questions in the study.

The scientists said the risk of dying from heart disease was 15 per cent lower for people who ate the most vegetables. However, they said other things also caused the 15% reduction. A researcher said the study did not show that vegetables protected the heart. He said differences in money and lifestyle also affected the heart.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Plant-based Diets - Level 1 Plant-based Diets - Level 2   or  Plant-based Diets - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60429955
  • https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/21/health/vegetables-heart-risk-wellness/index.html
  • https://www.techexplorist.com/consumption-vegetables-not-lower-risk-cvd/44895/


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. vegetables may not greatly
  2. heart
  3. vegetables are
  4. other things may
  5. other
  6. where
  7. if we smoke or
  8. 400,000 answered questions
  1. things we eat
  2. drink
  3. attacks
  4. in the study
  5. cut the risk
  6. affect our heart
  7. we live
  8. important

Paragraph 2

  1. the risk of
  2. heart disease was
  3. people who ate
  4. caused the 15%
  5. the study did not
  6. vegetables protected
  7. differences in money
  8. affected the
  1. show that
  2. dying
  3. and lifestyle
  4. 15 per cent lower
  5. heart
  6. reduction
  7. the most vegetables
  8. the heart

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

(1) ___________________ vegetables may not greatly cut the risk (2) ___________________. People believe vegetables are important. However, (3) ___________________ affect our heart. These include other (4) ___________________, exercise, where we live, our income, (5) ___________________ smoke or drink. Almost 400,000 answered questions (6) ___________________.

The scientists said (7) ___________________ dying from heart disease was 15 per cent (8) ___________________ who ate the most vegetables. However, (9) ___________________ things also caused (10) ___________________. A researcher said the study did not show that vegetables (11) ___________________. He said differences (12) ___________________ lifestyle also affected the heart.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Astudysaysvegetablesmaynotgreatlycuttheriskofheartattacks.Peop
lebelievevegetablesareimportant.However,otherthingsmayaffecto
urheart.Theseincludeotherthingsweeat,exercise,wherewelive,ourin
come,andifwesmokeordrink.Almost400,000answeredquestionsinth
estudy.Thescientistssaidtheriskofdyingfromheartdiseasewas15per
centlowerforpeoplewhoatethemostvegetables.However,theysaidot
herthingsalsocausedthe15%reduction.Aresearchersaidthestudydid
notshowthatvegetablesprotectedtheheart.Hesaiddifferencesinmon
eyandlifestylealsoaffectedtheheart.

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

Write about this topic for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

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Answers

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