Obesity and Diabetes

Today's topic is health-related. Obesity is a huge problem not only in the United States but around the world. For your information, compare obesity rates by country: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity Obesity leads to many health problems, including diabetes. This morning's reading and listening are about diabetes. Reading builds vocabulary and listening is a great way to improve your pronunciation. Hear how the words sound. Practice saying them. These 2 exercises are difficult but you can do them! Try the listening first. Then, try to "reconstruct" the article. http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0811/081102-diabetes.mp3 http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0811/081102-diabetes-t.htm Check the rate of U.S. diabetes and how high it will be in 2030 See the relationship between diabetes and obesity and lack of exercise Write a summary on the blog (www.telcstudentsand......) Start now. You can save and finish at home. Remember how to use the blog? Some students wrote comments last time. Instead, you should write a NEW POST go to: www.telcstudentsandteacher.blogspot.com click on SIGN IN on the top right You remember the user name and password, don't you? click on SIGN IN under TELC STUDENTS AND TEACHER click on NEW POST Write your message in the window. Remember to put a title at the top. When you finish, click on PUBLISH. Everyone can read your message and reply. If you don't have time to finish, you can click SAVE DRAFT and work on it at home later.