Review 7: Leading a healthy life. 10 de marzo de 2022

Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP #inglésipep  (en Twitter).

Comenzamos una serie de ejercicios dedicados a revisar los puntos principales del programa del curso.

Hoy toca: Leading a healthy life.

Nota: Los textos están seleccionados tanto del programa CREA como de otras fuentes, a quienes doy las gracias y cito, pero todos tienen el nivel del curso.

CÓDIGOS DE COLORES:

AZUL: Traducciones.

ROJO: Aspectos gramaticales.

VERDE: Aspectos culturales.

NARANJA: Estructuras concatenadas

MORADO: Traducción y sinónimos, antónimos, etc.

Amarillo: Palabras con trampa.

Os dejo una plantilla para que, sobre la marcha, podáis ir completando con sinónimos, antónimos, etc y los significados. Espero que os sea de utilidad. Pinchad aquí para descargarla.  

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Texto nº 1

Vegans, vegetarians and omnivores 

To understand everything easily, we tend to classify, to name things in such a way that we know what to expect. We do it even according to what we choose to live on. There are vegetarians, omnivores, vegans, etc.

From a vegetarian point of view, an omnivore eats all types of food, including fish, flesh, fruit and vegetables, without the slightest concern about how that food is produced. Vegetarians strongly believe that if omnivores knew how animals are bred and slaughtered, they would probably become vegetarians.

For people who eat meat, a vegetarian is someone who eats plants, basically vegetables and fruit, and all vegetarians are the same. However, many vegetarians also eat products coming from animals. If they eat cheese, yoghurt or drink animal milk, they are still called vegetarians. The idea is that to obtain this food, no animal is killed. That is one of their deepest worries.

And there are also vegans or radical vegetarians. If a vegetarian refuses to eat not only meat but also eggs, dairy products and all other animal-derived ingredients, he or she is called vegan. In addition, most vegans do not use anything coming from animals, including leather, fur or wool. That is why they are sometimes called radical vegetarians, but what most clearly defines them is a profound respect for animal rights.

There are also pescatarians, raw vegetarians, flexitarians.

Note: enjoy life, eat as many different types of food as possible and do not be stupid.

Texto nº 2:

Slow Food 

Everyone knows what fast food is but, have you heard of slow food? You may think that I am joking but there is a Slow Food Movement which aims to preserve cultural cuisine and in so doing to preserve the food plants and seeds, domestic animals and farming within a region. 

The Slow Food movement has its origins in the 1980s in Italy.  When McDonald’s planned to build an franchise outlet near the Piazza di Spagna in Rome in 1986, Carlo Petrini organised a demonstration in which he and his followers brandished bowls of macaroni as weapons of protest. Their demonstration was successful and in 1989 Carlo founded the International Slow Food Movement which is against  fast food, fast life, non-sustainable food production and the destruction of local economies. He has written a number of books on Slow Food,  providing convincing arguments to persuade us to watch what, and how, we consume.

One of the key tenets of Slow Food is the belief in the right to pleasure, to really enjoy what we eat. They encourage people to consider every meal a social event based around the  preparation and consumption of food among friends and family.

Another important component of the Slow Food movement is the commitment to educating children about the origins and taste of food, to help them to have a connection to the food they eat. It aims to help children develop their senses and their appreciation of food and the pleasure of eating as a gastronomic and social event.

Next time you sit down at a table to eat, don't wolf your food down but think about how you could turn a daily habit into a moment of pleasure and health.

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Texto nº 3:

Team Hoyt

The image that we associate with sports is athletic perfect bodies and of course we think of top sportsmen. However, there so many incredible moving stories of amateur athletes and personal sacrifices.

Rick Hoyt was born in 1962 to Dick and Judy Hoyt and as a result of oxygen deprivation to Rick's brain at the time of his birth, he has cerebral paralysis. Although they were told that there was little hope for their son to live a "normal" life, they fought for his inclusion in community, sports, education and workplace by making everyone look beyond his physical limitations. Years later he attended Boston University, and he graduated with a degree in Special Education in 1993.

In the spring of 1977, he told his father that he wanted to participate in a 5-mile benefit run for a Lacrosse player who had been paralyzed in an accident. They did it. That night, he told his father, "Dad, when I'm running, it feels like I'm not handicapped."

This was just the beginning of what would become over 1,000 races completed, including marathons and triathlons. He rode a special two-seater bicycle, or swam with Rick on a boat and a cord attached around his waist, or pushed his wheelchair. They even biked and ran across the U.S. in 1992, completing a full 3,735 miles in 45 days. The 2009 Boston Marathon was officially Team Hoyt's 1000th race. Neither Dick or Rick were ready to retire yet.

Rick was once asked, if he could give his father one thing, what would it be? Rick responded, "The thing I'd most like is for my dad to sit in the chair and I would push him for once.

Saludos y nos veremos la próxima semana, Dios mediante.