{"id":1854,"date":"2017-02-15T08:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T08:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2017-02-15T08:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T08:55:55","slug":"questions-regarding-health-and-fitness-english-speaking-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/questions-regarding-health-and-fitness-english-speaking-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions regarding health and fitness | English speaking lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some questions regarding health and fitness. Sample answers are also given.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Do you enjoy jogging?\u2019 \u2018Yes, I enjoy it.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018How often do you work out?\u2019 \u2018I work out almost every day.\u2019 \/ \u2018At least four times a week.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018You never used to eat vegetables. Have you suddenly acquired a taste for them?\u2019 \u2018No, I just heard they are healthy for you.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018What made you decide to start working out?\u2019 \u2018I heard that it\u2019s good for health.\u2019 \/ \u2018I want to be healthier.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018You go for a walk every day. Do you enjoy it?\u2019 \u2018Well, I hate walking, but I do it because it\u2019s very healthy.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Talking about good and bad health of your family members<\/h2>\n<p>Use the following phrases to talk about the good and bad health of your family members.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My grandmother is eighty but her eyesight is still very sharp.<\/li>\n<li>My grandfather is very worried about his health, but the doctors can\u2019t find anything wrong with him.<\/li>\n<li>My grandmother is going blind, so she can\u2019t move about that much.<\/li>\n<li>My grandmother can\u2019t walk that well because of leg pains. But besides that, she\u2019s very healthy.<\/li>\n<li>My father is diabetic.<\/li>\n<li>My grandfather is quite healthy for his age.<\/li>\n<li>My mother has arthritis \/ blood pressure \/ diabetes \/ etc. She\u2019s always worried about her health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Talking about the health of a newborn baby<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>My sister has just had her baby. (= My sister has given birth to a baby.)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Isn\u2019t the baby healthy?\u2019\u2018He is. He is a healthy little boy.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Having healthy children is indeed a blessing.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m so happy that I\u2019m blessed with healthy children.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018We have been blessed with a bonny (= healthy, attractive) baby.\u2019 \u2018Congratulations.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Talking about major illnesses<\/h2>\n<p>Use the following phrases and sentences to talk about serious illnesses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He smokes a lot. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he gets cancer.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t eat too much spicy foods. They could upset your stomach.<\/li>\n<li>My father-in-law died from stomach cancer last year. The doctors couldn\u2019t detect it early.<\/li>\n<li>My grandfather has been unwell for a while. The doctors haven\u2019t detected anything particularly serious, but he just doesn\u2019t feel well.<\/li>\n<li>My sister falls ill very often. I\u2019m really worried about her health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some questions regarding health and fitness. Sample answers are also given. \u2018Do you enjoy jogging?\u2019 \u2018Yes, I enjoy it.\u2019 \u2018How often do you work out?\u2019 \u2018I work out almost every day.\u2019 \/&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-english-speaking-lesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}