Exercises

1. Interpret the following sentences.

1. If you don’t enjoy some of these, give them another chance.

2. … don’t eat so much that your snack becomes an entire meal.

3. Most people eat for pleasure as well as nutrition.

4. Use the Nutrition Facts panel on the food label to help balance your choices.

5. When dining out, share it with a friend, ask for a take-home bag or a smaller portion.

6. Balance your food choices over time.

7. Your food choices over several days should fit together into a healthy pattern.

8. Know your diet pitfalls.

9. Begin to remedy excesses or deficiencies with modest changes that can add up to positive lifelong eating habits.

2. Find in the text the following words and word-combinations and translate them into Russian.

1. key to healthy eating

to develop healthy eating habits

to remedy/ revamp one’s eating habits

2. balance

to balance smth (one’s choices, weight, fat intake etc); be balanced with smth

a (well-)balanced/ unbalanced diet

3. variety; variable

to eat a wide variety of foods

4. moderation

to moderate (food/ fat intake), do smth/ eat in moderation

to eat moderate/ reasonable portions

5. calorie

to get enough calories

to count/ watch one’s calories

to supply one’s calorie needs

6) nutrition; nutritious

a nutrient; a vital nutrient

nutrient-rich/ protein-rich/ vitamin-rich food

to supply some nutrients (proteins, vitamins, fiber etc)

7) daily food selection/ intake

to reduce/ balance/ moderate one’s intake of smth

8) (to enjoy) whole-grain products

high/ low-fat food (high-fat meat/ lean meat, whole-milk dairy products/ low-fat milk/ skim milk)

9) a (whole, recommended) serving of smth

10) excess – deficiency, excessive – deficient

to remedy one’s excesses or deficiencies

11) to increase one’s chances for/ risk of smth (high blood pressure, heart disease, high blood cholesterol level etc)

12) to eat regular meals

to skip meals

to snack between meals

13) to lead to out-of-control hunger

to curb hunger

14) to result in overeating

15) to change/ revamp gradually/ overnight

16) a valuable source of energy, proteins, fiber etc

to carry smth (nutrients, fat-soluble vitamins needed for proper growth)

3. Look up the words helping – portion – ration – serving and explain their difference. Think of your own examples to illustrate their use.

4. Look up the word diet and find out its possible derivatives and collocations. Translate the following units offhand:

бессолевая диета, а dieter, сидеть на диете, a crash diet, диетология, a slimming diet, диетолог, a special diet, диетический, a bland diet, белковая диета.

5. Look up the phrasal verbs and use them to complete the sentences below.

- to keep up smth

- to dine out

- to miss out on smth

- to make up for smth

- to fit together

- to cut down (on) smth

- to add up to smth

- to cut through smth

1) This conversation ___ ___ a difference of opinions between us.

2) That night we were ___ ___ at the Millers’.

3) Our income and expenditure should ___ ___.

4) Eddie has not given up drinking, but I know that he is ___ ___.

5) With a meal included in the cost, the trip will ___ ___ a really good entertainment.

6) This splendid Indian summer has ___ ___ the wet August.

7) The doctor advised me to ___ ___ coffee and take walks before going to bed.

8) How do you manage to ___ ___ a house as large as this without help?

9) Living in the country, I often feel that I am ___ ___ the activities of city life.

10) I’m too tired to cook tonight, let’s ___ ___.

11) Let’s ___ ___ the usual committee stage and get the plan approved faster.

12) The movements of this piece do not seem to ___ ___.

13) You have a lot of faults to ___ ___.

14) I hope you will ___ ___ your recent improvement.

15) Can’t we ___ ___ the red tape and get on with the real business.

16) You should have come to the party – you really ___ ___ a lot of fun.