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Open Lingua - Multilingüismo

CURSO: Comprensión de lectura en Inglés


Actividad evaluable: 9

Reading Article Obesity: An Urgent Global Epidemic and Local Challenge


Week 6 Time 2 hours
Strategy Individual
Procedure

a) List the key words of the text. Minimum five words.

Overweight
Health problems
Obesity
People
Epidemic
Health
Adults
Body weight
Energy imbalance

b) After reading the article Obesity: An Urgent Global Epidemic and Local
Challenge, state if the following statements are true or false based on the
reading.

TRUE FALSE
An article published in a worldwide well-known journal stated that
the number of overweight and obese people in the world has X
increased enormously in the last years and this has caused lots
of deaths.

The obesity epidemic is a problem of low- and middle income X


countries.

Health problems such as cancers, heart disease, diabetes and X


high blood pressure will not affect healthcare costs.

Energy imbalance means to consume too much food energy and X


not to eliminate this energy by means of physical activity.

Obesogenic environments’ are good for people’s health. X

C) Identify the topic sentences in each paragraph. Minimum four sentences.


 the number of overweight and obese people in the world has more than
doubled.
 Excess body weight is not just a problem in high-income countries.
 overweight and obesity arise from energy imbalance.
 our ancestors were hunter-gatherers.
 To counter this epidemic of overweight and obesity, perhaps we should
strive to be ‘urban’ hunter-gatherers.

D) Use the next graphic organizer to state the main idea of the text.

An Urgent Global Epidemic and


Local Challenge

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Obesity and overweight a public health


epidemic

had Caused several


Had affected the
diseases, which will Had caused a lot of
productivity of people in
increase the costs of deaths.
their jobs
medical care

e) Summarize the article.


Overweight and obesity is an epidemic that has been growing enormously year
after year, which has caused thousands of deaths, being a public health problem
that affects the countries of high, medium and low income, triggering several
pathologies that go to increase the cost of medical care and affecting the working
life of employees it is necessary to take preventive measures against this issue
such as having a healthy diet, leave aside a sedentary lifestyle and perform
physical activity or apply the diet hunter - gatherers that previously it is used to
consent people to have healthy living environments.

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