Why sitting is bad for you

Jennifer

Listening — Advanced Level
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Activity

Watch the video and answer the questions

  1. Our bodies are not built for a   existence.
  2. The human body is built   .
  3. Our   depends on us moving around to circulate.
  4. Our   is elastic, making it mold to our motion.
  5. The   is a long structure made of bones.
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Discussion

Practice your writing skills by discussing the questions below

  1. Do you sit most of the time?Why? Why not?
  2. What are the dangers of too much sitting ?
  3. What do you do to stay active?
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    Vocabulary

      • feeling or appearing troubled or nervous
      • a good or helpful result or effect
      • a firm, whitish, flexible connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract
      • the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism
      • (circulated) move or cause to move continuously or freely through a closed system or area
      • able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contractions
      • the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth
      • a short band of tough, flexible fibrous connective tissue which connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint
      • the action or process of moving or being moved
      • the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex

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