Talking about: FITNESS

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

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1. Do you think you are fit <p class = tooltip2><b>fit</b> (level: pre-intermediate)</p><p class = tooltip2>in good health</p><p class = tooltip2><i>Eat healthy and do some sport if you want to be fit.</i></p>?

2. What do you do to be fit?

3. How do you spend your free time?

4. Do you do any sport? What sport?

5. Do you exercise <p class = tooltip2><b>to exercise</b> (level: intermediate)</p><p class = tooltip2>a physical activity that you do to be healthy and strong</p><p class = tooltip2><i>If you exercise while being on a diet, you are more likely to succeed and lose your weight more quickly.</i></p>? If so, what kind of exercise do you do?

6. Are you muscular <p class = tooltip2><b>muscular</b> (level: intermediate)</p><p class = tooltip2>strong, with well-developed muscles</p><p class = tooltip2><i>He wants to be more muscular, so he started to go to the local gym every day.</i></p>?

7. Do you have a good physical condition <p class = tooltip2><b>good physical condition</b> (level: intermediate)</p><p class = tooltip2>the state, in which you do not get tired easily while doing physical activities</p><p class = tooltip2><i>Her physical condition is not good enough to go climbing with us.</i></p>?

8. Are you a member of a fitness club?

9. Do you always eat healthy food?

10.   Do you eat a lot of vegetables <p class = tooltip2><b>vegetables</b> (level: elementary)</p><p class = tooltip2>(usually) a plant or a root that you eat, which is good for your health</p><p class = tooltip2><i>If you want to lose weight you should eat more vegetables instead of sweets.</i></p> and fruits <p class = tooltip2><b>fruits</b> (level: elementary)</p><p class = tooltip2>usually a sweet and tasty part of a tree or a bush which can be eaten directly from that tree/bush</p><p class = tooltip2><i>Oranges are my favourite fruits.</i></p>?

11.   Do you often eat fruits?

12.   Do you drink a lot of alcohol?

13.   Do you often eat junk food <p class = tooltip2><b>junk food</b> (level: intermediate)</p><p class = tooltip2>food that is quick to prepare and easy to eat, but very unhealthy, because it contains a lot of fat</p><p class = tooltip2><i>She doesn’t let her children eat junk food any more, after she realised how much fat it contains.</i></p>?

14.   Do you smoke <p class = tooltip2><b>to smoke</b> (level: intermediate)</p><p class = tooltip2>to breathe smoke through the mouth, mainly from a cigarette or a pipe</p><p class = tooltip2><i>He used to smoke about  three packets of cigarettes a day, which made him die of lung cancer at young age.</i></p>?

15.   Have you ever been on a diet <p class = tooltip2><b>diet</b> (level: pre-intermediate)</p><p class = tooltip2>eating less or more healthy food in order to become slim or feel better</p><p class = tooltip2><i>“Would you like a piece of cake?” “No thanks, I’m on a diet.”</i></p>?

16.   Is fitness fashionable?

17.   Do advertisements promote fitness? In what ways?

18.   Do corporations encourage their workers to be fit? Why? In what ways?

Useful vocabulary connected with: FITNESS

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fitness (level: intermediate)
the state of being healthy, strong, full of energy
My friend decided to improve his fitness by going to work on foot every day.

fit (level: pre-intermediate)
in good health
Eat healthy and do some sport if you want to be fit.

to exercise (level: intermediate)
a physical activity that you do to be healthy and strong
If you exercise while being on a diet, you are more likely to succeed and lose your weight more quickly.

muscular (level: intermediate)
strong, with well-developed muscles
He wants to be more muscular, so he started to go to the local gym every day.

good physical condition (level: intermediate)
the state, in which you do not get tired easily while doing physical activities
Her physical condition is not good enough to go climbing with us.

vegetables (level: elementary)
(usually) a plant or a root that you eat, which is good for your health
If you want to lose weight you should eat more vegetables instead of sweets.

fruits (level: elementary)
usually a sweet and tasty part of a tree or a bush which can be eaten directly from that tree/bush
Oranges are my favourite fruits.

junk food (level: 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.

to smoke (level: intermediate)
to breathe smoke through the mouth, mainly from a cigarette or a pipe
He used to smoke about three packets of cigarettes a day, which made him die of lung cancer at young age.

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.”

fashionable (level: pre-intermediate)
in fashion, popular at a particular time
You may not like spotted clothes, but they are very fashionable this summer.

advertisement (level: intermediate)
a picture, poster, short movie that is meant to persuade people to buy a particular product or service
His wife is easily influenced by all advertisements and it makes him angry that she keeps spending money on unnecessary things.

promote (level: intermediate)
to encourage, raise the popularity of something
All the TV commercials that present beautiful, perfect and happy people promote healthy lifestyle among societies.

corporation (level: intermediate)
a large company or a group of companies being a single organization
Some corporations care about their workers a lot and organize trips for them or encourage them to visit sports facilities for free.

encourage (level: intermediate)
to make somebody likely to do something, to make somebody feel confident to do something
Teachers encourage their students to learn foreign languages.

Idioms connected with: FITNESS

as fit as a fiddle (level: upper intermediate)
in good health
My grandfather is as fit as a fiddle. He does jogging every day and he eats healthy.