Covid exercise: 'I'll never go back to the gym again'

This is a list of key vocabulary and expressions from the article in order of how useful they are. The student must choose 6 items from the list to study in the lesson.

To look after (someone/ something)

To keep up (with something/ someone)

To work out

To put on weight

To bully (someone)

To keep fit

To end up (doing) something

To save up (for something)

Silly

To be obsessed (with something/ someone)

If it wasn’t for…,…would(n’t)…/ If it hadn’t been for…,…would(n’t) have + PAST PARTICIPLE…

At one point

Boom

To fit in

Foolish

To commute

To be hooked (on something)

To strive (to do something/ for something)

A new year’s resolution

Bleak

To set foot in

To spur (someone) on

To rack up

A splurge

Doom and gloom

15 conversation-provoking questions related to the article.

1. What do you know about Ben Barbanel?

2. What is the ‘Her Spirit’ app?

3. What did Lisa Williams say?

4. ‘People who use apps like Her Spirit are only trying to show off.’ Do you agree?

5. ‘The future is bleak for the gym industry.’ Do you agree?

6. ‘New year’s resolutions are a complete waste of time.’ Do you agree?

7. ‘Gym-goers are motivated purely by vanity’. Do you agree?

8. ‘In general, people have become much healthier as a result of lockdown.’ Do you agree?

9. ‘Exercising should be a time when we are free from technology.’ Do you agree? 

10. ‘The benefits of exercising outdoors are greater than the benefits of exercising in a gym.’ Do you agree?

11. ‘Most forms of exercise are unbearably boring.’ Do you agree?

12. ‘Children should be taught to be competitive.’ Do you agree?

13. ‘Everyone can find the time to do exercise if they try hard enough.’ Do you agree?

14. ‘PE (Physical Education) should be optional in schools. It’s wrong to force children to do sport if they don’t want to.’ Do you agree?

15. ‘Men are more sporty than women.’ Do you agree?