Here you can find some questions you can ask your partner during conversation about diets:

Share

1. Do you eat healthy?

2. What does ‘healthy eating’ mean?

3. How much do you think you know about healthy eating?

4. Why do people usually go on a diet ?

5. Have you ever been on a diet?

6. If so, what kind of diet was it?

7. Have you ever been on a very strict diet?

8. Are strict diets healthy?

9. Have you ever tried to lose weight ?

10. If so, did you succeed ?

11. How did you have to change your eating habits to achieve your goal ?

12. Do you have any unhealthy eating habits? What are they?

13. Do you eat junk food ? How often?

14. Do you often eat fruits and vegetables?

15. What are the consequences of unhealthy eating?

16. Does your diet influence your mood ?

17. Do you know any famous approaches to healthy eating? (e.g. food pyramid , blood type diet , food combining diet , etc.?.

18. Do you count calories ?

19. Do you know how many calories do you need every day?

20. Do you know how to count how many calories do you need every day?

21. What are the ‘calorie bombs’ ? Could you give any examples?

22. Do you often eat sweets?

23. Would you be able to give up eating sweets?

diet (level: pre-intermediate)
eating less or more healthy food in order to become slim or feel better
“Would you like a piece of cake?” “No thanks, I’m on a diet.”

strict (level: upper intermediate)
limiting someone’s choices, exactly describing what someone can or cannot do
She’s on a very strict diet. She can eat vegetables and fruits only.

to lose weight (level: intermediate)
to reduce the number of kilos that somebody weighs
He would have to lose some weight in order to avoid serious heart diseases in the future.

to succeed (level: intermediate)
to achieve something that you want
If you combine diet with physical activity, you are likely to succeed in losing weight.

habit (level: upper intermediate)
something that you do regularly
He’s in the habit of switching on his computer every time he comes back home. He wastes so much time in front of the screen!

to achieve a goal (level: upper intermediate)
to reach an aim, to succeed in doing something that you wanted
She wanted to lose 10 kilos, so she took up jogging and went on a diet. She achieved her goal after 3 months.

junk food (level: upper intermediate)
food that is quick to prepare and easy to eat, but very unhealthy, because it contains a lot of fat
She doesn’t let her children eat junk food any more, after she realised how much fat it contains.

influence (level: intermediate)
to change or affect something
You won’t influence her decision, she’s too stubborn.

mood (level: intermediate)
the way you feel
I was always in a bad mood in the morning, because I had no energy, so I decided to change my diet and eat more fruits and vegetables.

famous (level: pre-intermediate)
well known
She’s famous for being extremely generous. She gives a lot of money to charity every year.

approach (level: intermediate)
a way of dealing with something
He’s a famous doctor who has a new, interesting approach to healthy eating. He claims that you don’t have to give up eating the food you love to be healthy.

food pyramid (level: upper intermediate)
a graphic that suggests how many portions of each type of food you should eat every day
According to the food pyramid you should eat more portions of fruits than most people do every day.

blood type diet (level: upper intermediate)
a diet that is based on the type of food which is considered good for a particular blood type
According to the blood type diet, if your blood type is B, you should avoid eating carbohydrates.

food combining diet (level: upper intermediate)
a diet that is based on separating and combining particular types of food
According to the food combining diet, you shouldn’t eat carbohydrates with protein-rich food.

to count calories (level: upper intermediate)
to calculate the number of calories that your food provides
Now it’s easy to count calories, because their number is always given on the label of each product.

‘calorie bomb’ (level: upper intermediate)
an item of food, meal, snack that contains a huge number of calories and usually a lot of fat
Ice cream with cream is very tasty, but it’s a calorie bomb. You should avoid it if you don’t want to put on weight.

to give up (level: intermediate)
to stop doing something
You’ll have to give up drinking alcohol, if you want to be a successful sportsman.