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HEALTHY BODIES
READING
WARMER
Ask the students to tell you what you were talking about
in the last lesson, i.e.
giving advice with
should
and
shouldn’t
. Ask:
‘How often do you give advice?’ ‘What on?
Who to?’ ‘Who do you go to for advice: a member of your
family or friends?’ Tell the class you are going to run a
marathon and ask them for some advice.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
A fun run is a friendly race (running, cycling or even
motorcycling or going by snowmobile)
where people take
part for their own enjoyment rather than for competition.
These runs can be short races or even marathons.
Participants may wear fancy dress and they will often
raise money for charity.
La cursa
is one of the biggest fun
runs in the world.
Held once a year in Barcelona, Spain
over a distance of 10.766 km, this run is now 40 years
old. It attracts around 55,000 runners (in
recent years,
the majority have been women) and unlike many other
fun runs, it is free to enter. The
Marathon des Sables
is
an annual 251 km ultramarathon (so
called because it is
longer than the traditional length of a marathon – 42.195
km) held over six days in the Sahara Desert in Morocco.
The oldest marathon runner Fauja Singh was born on 1st
April 1911 in the Punjab and he’s carried the torch at both
the Athens and London Olympic Games. There is some
disagreement
over the youngest runner, but Budhia Singh
(born 2002) ran 65 km when he was five and Jennifer
Amyx ran a 42 km marathon also when she was five.
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Ask the students to look at the
title of the article and
the photos and say what they think the article is about.
Point out that each of the photos goes with one of the
paragraphs. Encourage the students to describe each
photo in pairs and say what they think each paragraph
is about. Then, ask the students
to read and match the
photos to the paragraphs.
