The Reading / Listening - Bodily Smells - Level 0

Food and drink change our body smells. We all have different smells. A professor of health said the smells from our body come from two places. One is the bacteria in our stomach. Bacteria break down food and release gases. These gases can give us bad breath. Food also changes the smell of our skin.

The food that makes the strongest body smells contain sulphur. Broccoli and cabbage contain sulphur. Another food is garlic. This makes our breath smell, and can make our armpits smell nicer. Alcohol, coffee and tea can lead to bad breath and a smelly body. If we want to smell nice, we should eat fruit and drink water.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Bodily Smells - Level 1 Bodily Smells - Level 2   or  Bodily Smells - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251031-the-foods-that-make-you-smell-more-attractive
  • https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-7-different-foods-affect-your-body-odor
  • https://www.theskimm.com/health/nutrition/foods-that-cause-body-odor


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. Food and drink
  2. We all have different
  3. the smells from our body
  4. One is the bacteria
  5. Bacteria break
  6. release
  7. These gases can give
  8. Food also changes the
  1. down food
  2. us bad breath
  3. smells
  4. change our body smells
  5. smell of our skin
  6. come from two places
  7. gases
  8. in our stomach

Paragraph 2

  1. The food that makes the strongest
  2. Broccoli and cabbage
  3. Another food
  4. This makes our
  5. make our armpits
  6. If we want to smell
  7. we should
  8. drink
  1. eat fruit
  2. is garlic
  3. smell nicer
  4. water
  5. body smells
  6. breath smell
  7. nice
  8. contain sulphur

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Food (1) _________________________________________________ our body smells. We all (2) _________________________________________________. A professor of health said the smells from (3) _________________________________________________ from two places. One is the bacteria (4) _________________________________________________. Bacteria break down food (5) _________________________________________________. These gases can give us bad breath. Food also changes the smell (6) _________________________________________________.

The food that (7) _________________________________________________ body smells contain sulphur. Broccoli (8) _________________________________________________ sulphur. Another food is garlic. This makes (9) _________________________________________________, and can make our (10) _________________________________________________. Alcohol, coffee and tea can lead (11) _________________________________________________ and a smelly body. If we want to smell nice, we should eat fruit (12) _________________________________________________.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Foodanddrinkchangeourbodysmells.Weallhavedifferentsmells.Apro
fessorofhealthsaidthesmellsfromourbodycomefromtwoplaces.Onei
sthebacteriainourstomach.Bacteriabreakdownfoodandreleasegase
s.Thesegasescangiveusbadbreath.Foodalsochangesthesmellofours
kin.Thefoodthatmakesthestrongestbodysmellscontainsulphur.Broc
coliandcabbagecontainsulphur.Anotherfoodisgarlic.Thismakesourb
reathsmell,andcanmakeourarmpitssmellnicer.Alcohol,coffeeandtea
canleadtobadbreathandasmellybody.Ifwewanttosmellnice,weshoul
deatfruitanddrinkwater.

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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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

Write about this topic for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

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Answers

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