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Healthy living resources on frenchteacher

The topic of healthy living is a popular one in syllabuses, for example the GCSE and IB Diploma. And why not? It's important, we like talking about health and food, and it's a vital issue to cover wth young people's well-being in mind. It's also an easy topic to find and generate resources on, including communicative ones.

On frenchteacher.net I have a wide range of materials at various levels. Here's the list.

Year 9

  • Health - a mosaic translation
  • Narrow listening
  • Narrow reading
  • Full lesson plan
  • A text with exercises about healthy eating

Y10-11 (GCSE)

An easy sentence builder

Texts with exercises

  • Lucas and Clara describe their lifestyle
  • 10 priorities for a healthy lifestyle
  • France's 2026 policy on eating meat 
  • Sleep  
  • How well do you sleep? - Narrow reading
  • Protection from UV rays
  • The risks of vaping
  • Tattoos
  • Stress in teenagers
  • Alcohol and health in France
  • French people eating less meat
  • Healthy eating - sugar
  • Locavores - people who like local food 
  • Eating meat and the environment
  • Healthy fats
  • Vegetarianism 
  • Healthy eating habits
  • Do we eat better than our ancestors?

A 'Spot the Differences' listening task

A 30-minute instant listening task

A dominoes game

A 'correct the trasncript' task

Full lesson plan on vaping

Sedentary or active - a task-based lesson plan

Video listening tasks

  • Is the sun healthy?
  • What’s in a cigarette?
  • Papa Pig fait de l’exercice
  • Reducing cancer risk through organic food?
  • PE/sport in school

A-level/IB

Healthy living is not an A-level topic, so I don't cover it extensively, but it does feature in the IB Diploma syllabus and no doubt in others. here is what I have:

Ultra-processed foods text discovery info gap task

Health questionnaire task

Talking about health board game

Texts with exercises

  • Long-term effects of Covid lockdowns on teens
  • The French and alcohol 
  • Risks of eating red meat
  • Stress - forum answers and comprehension
  • Matching task for above
  • Listening task to go with above
  • Organic products - pros and cons
  • Confusing nutrition advice
Video listening
  1. What is cannabis?
  2. Dangers of e-cigarettes




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