The Reading / Listening - Cold Weather Exercise - Level 0

Exercise is important for our health. It lowers the risk of heart disease and helps our weight. Doctors say that exercising in cold weather benefits our physical and mental health. The cold gives our heart a bigger workout. Our heart has to work harder to pump blood around our body.

Our body burns calories faster when it is cold. Our body works harder to keep warm, so we use up more calories. Physical activity in the cold increases our metabolism. This helps us to lose weight. Another benefit of exercising in the cold is that natural light helps to reduce our stress.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Cold Weather Exercise - Level 1 Cold Weather Exercise - Level 2   or  Cold Weather Exercise - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.huffpost.com/entry/exercising-outside-winter-benefits_l_65cd27f2e4b0dd11b911a795
  • https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/other/why-end-of-winter-is-the-perfect-time-to-start-a-fitness-journey-expert-tips/ar-BB1iBuDT
  • https://www.healthday.com/health-news/exercise-and-fitness/cold-weather-running-may-be-even-healthier


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. Exercise is important
  2. It lowers the
  3. heart
  4. cold weather
  5. our physical and
  6. The cold gives our heart
  7. Our heart has to
  8. pump blood
  1. work harder
  2. around our body
  3. mental health
  4. for our health
  5. a bigger workout
  6. risk
  7. benefits
  8. disease

Paragraph 2

  1. Our body burns calories faster
  2. Our body works harder to
  3. we use up more
  4. Physical
  5. This helps us to lose
  6. Another benefit of exercising
  7. natural
  8. reduce our
  1. calories
  2. light
  3. weight
  4. stress
  5. when it is cold
  6. activity
  7. in the cold
  8. keep warm

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Exercise (1) ___________________ our health. It lowers the (2) ___________________ disease and helps our weight. Doctors (3) ___________________ in cold weather benefits our physical (4) ___________________. The cold gives our heart (5) ___________________. Our heart has to work harder to (6) ___________________ our body.

Our (7) ___________________ faster when it is cold. Our body works (8) ___________________ warm, so we use up more calories. (9) ___________________ the cold increases our metabolism. (10) ___________________ to lose weight. Another benefit (11) ___________________ the cold is that natural light helps to (12) ___________________.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Exerciseisimportantforourhealth.Itlowerstheriskofheartdiseaseand
helpsourweight.Doctorssaythatexercisingincoldweatherbenefitsour
physicalandmentalhealth.Thecoldgivesourheartabiggerworkout.Ou
rhearthastoworkhardertopumpbloodaroundourbody.Ourbodyburns
caloriesfasterwhenitiscold.Ourbodyworkshardertokeepwarm,sowe
useupmorecalories.Physicalactivityinthecoldincreasesourmetabolis
m.Thishelpsustoloseweight.Anotherbenefitofexercisinginthecoldist
hatnaturallighthelpstoreduceourstress.

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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Free writing

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