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 ?

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 ? If so, what kind of exercise do you do?

6. Are you muscular ?

7. Do you have a good physical condition ?

8. Are you a member of a fitness club?

9. Do you always eat healthy food?

10.   Do you eat a lot of vegetables and fruits ?

11.   Do you often eat fruits?

12.   Do you drink a lot of alcohol?

13.   Do you often eat junk food ?

14.   Do you smoke ?

15.   Have you ever been on a diet ?

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?

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.

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.