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SDG 3: Good health and well-being

Understanding Goal 3

You can consider yourself a priviliged teenager because when you get sick you can go to the doctor and you can buy medicines to get better as soon as possible. However, there are other people who are not as lucky as you are.

a) Watch the following video:

Participate. Understand Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being (Secondary) (Licencia estándar de YouTube)

b) After watching the video, read and answer  the following questions. 

  • How do experts measure health communities and nations?
  • What does a healthy country look like?
  • What is officially the healthiest country?
  • Why is _______________ considered the healthiest country?
  • What can provoke unhealthy habits?

c) Read the following article which belongs to the United Nations and it is not  adapted. You just have to skim it and to scan it.

First, skim the reading to grasp the main idea and, secondly, scan it to get the specific information that calls your attention.

d) Complete:

i. The main idea of the article is :

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

ii. Specific information that called my attention:

  • _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
  • _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
  • _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Here you can download the handout for the students to write their answers in odt or pdf.

Connecting connectors

Have you observed that connectors are always present when writing and talking?

Here you have a video where all of the them are very well organised and classified. Try to recognise all those that you have already seen through this project and write down a list with those you are going to use more frequently.

English Study Here. Connectors in English (Licencia estándar de YouTube)

Here, you have an intereactive handout in order to practice  the use of connectors.

TASK 3: Clean bill of health

Poor countries are getting big amounts of money.  The UNO demands a clean bill of health for all of them.

Food- lab, also known as cultured or cell-based meat is artificial meat grown from animal cells in a laboratory. Start-up companies have grown artificial beef, pork, chicken and even fish. Would you include it in your program to achieve a clean bill of health?

In groups, you have to prepare an infographic  with a health program in order to achieve a  CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH for one of the poor countries you searched in task 1.

Health and well-being
geralt. Health and well-being (Pixabay License)

By creating an infographic,  you develope research skills and visual design skills.

Gather all your  ideas to  make an infographic  with genially or  canva.

Don't forget that the rubric to assess a infographic  will help you know how to do a great job (download in editable odt format, download in pdf).

Learning Diary

Now, write in your learning diary your reflections.

Here you have  some questions to answer:

  • What did I learn?
  • What was new to me?
  • Was there something that changed my views and why?
  • What didn't I understand?  Why?
  • What was more difficult to me? Why?
  • What was easier to me? Why?
  • What do I think about learning English by using ICT?

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