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Exercise 3. Listen and mark the sentences if they are True(T) or False(F).

Exercise 4.Now retell the main idea of the text using the following questions:

Exercise 5. Make up a dialogue using questions below.

1. What are the most popular ways of keeping healthy in your country?

2. Do you think people worry more about their health as they get older?

3. Why do you think some people continue bad habits when they know that they are damaging to their health?

4. How can children be encouraged to adopt healthy eating habits?

5. Do you think people have become more health conscious in recent years?

Exercise 6. Describe something you do to keep healthily.

You should say:

1.what this activity is

2.when you do it

3.and how often you do it

and explain why you think it’s a good way to look after your health.

Exercise 7. Read the text and translate the second paragraph. [Part III pp. 193[http://breakingnewsenglish.com]

Brain injuries

Concussions are brain injuries that occur when a person receives a blow to the head, face, or neck. Although most people who suffer a concussion experience initial bouts of dizziness, nausea, and drowsiness, these symptoms often disappear after a few days. The long-term effects of concussions, however, are less understood and far more severe. Recent studies suggest that people who suffer multiple concussions are at significant risk for developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disorder that causes a variety of dangerous mental and emotional problems to arise weeks, months, or even years after the initial injury. These psychological problems can include depression, anxiety, memory loss, inability to concentrate, and aggression. In extreme cases, people suffering from CTE have even committed suicide or homicide. The majority of people who develop these issues are athletes who participate in popular high-impact sports, especially football. Although new sports regulations and improvements in helmet technology can help protect players, amateur leagues, the sports media, and fans all bear some of the responsibility for reducing the incidence of these devastating injuries.

Improvements in diagnostic technology have provided substantial evidence to link severe—and often fatal—psychological disorders to the head injuries that players receive while on the field. Recent autopsies performed on the brains of football players who have committed suicide have shown advanced cases of CTE in every single victim.

In response to the growing understanding of this danger, the National Football League (NFL) has revised its safety regulations. Players who have suffered a head injury on the field must undergo a “concussion sideline assessment”—a series of mental and physical fitness tests—before being allowed back in the game. In an effort to diminish the amount of head and neck injuries on the field, NFL officials began enforcing stricter penalty calls for helmet-to-helmet contact, leading with the head, and hitting a defenseless player. Furthermore, as of 2010, if a player’s helmet is accidentally wrenched from his head during play, the ball is immediately whistled dead. It is hoped that these new regulations, coupled with advances in helmet design, will reduce the number of concussions, and thus curb further cases of CTE.