EVALUATION TEST

FOOD AND HEALTH

8TH GRADE

Teenagers and Food

Ive lost count of the number of times my 16-year-old daughter Jenny refuses to eat her dinner,
says Karen Pickles. I try to make her eat some of her vegetables, but after coming home from a long day
at work I dont feel like arguing about food. Good food goes in the bin because Jenny is feeling fat.
Being a teenager these days is very different from what it was 20 years ago. While nowadays
most people know whats good for you, todays teens ignore this and go on diets. A recent study shows
that 15% of 14- and 15-year-old girls miss a meal at school once a week and 20% regularly skip breakfast.
And it is not just the girls. Some 10% of teen boys skip lunch once a week and 12% miss breakfast.
Getting a teenager to eat better is not difficult. It is important to educate young people about
nutrition and to understand the pressures they are under. First of all, teenagers should understand the
connection between eating well and good health. They should get five portions of fruit and vegetables per
day. Eating fresh fruit and vegetables can help improve the memory, which means that they might only
need to study one hour instead of two. A lot of teens dont have breakfast because they think it will make
them fat. They need to understand that eating breakfast can help them to keep their weight down because
it makes their metabolism go faster.
And dont forget. Exercise is essential to help teenagers keep fit, healthy and use up any excess
calories.
I Answer the following questions.
1. Why doesnt Jenny want to eat dinner?
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2. What does her mother feel about it? What does she do?
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3. What meal dont most students have?
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4. Is it difficult to make teenagers eat well? Explain.
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5. How can fresh fruit and vegetables help students?
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II Ask questions on the underlined part of these sentences.
1. ______________________________________________________________________________
A lot of teens dont have breakfast.
2. ______________________________________________________________________________
Good food goes in the bin.
3. ______________________________________________________________________________
Many girls miss a meal at school once a week.
4. ______________________________________________________________________________
Its important to educate young people about nutrition.
III Find words or expressions in the text that mean the same as the following.
1. dont remember ___________________________________________________________________
2. speaking angrily ____________________________________________________________________
3. survey __________________________________________________________________________
4. stress __________________________________________________________________________
5. unnecessary _____________________________________________________________________
IV Fill in the blanks with connectors.
1. _______________I saw my friends, they were eating an ice cream.
2. _______________ she is fat, she goes on eating fast food.
3. _______________ hotdogs _________ hamburgers are food for your health.
4. At the supermarket they sell _____________ fresh vegetables ______________ frozen vegetables.
5. I often eat chocolate ______________ Im watching TV.
6. _____________ many teenagers ignore the connection between eating well and good health, they go
on diets.

V. Add a question-tag to these sentences.

1. Jenny is feeling fat, ____________________________________
2. Dont forget eating well, ________________________________
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3. A lot of teens dont have breakfast, ________________________
4. Jenny ignores whats good health, _________________________
5. Most teenagers never have breakfast, ______________________

VI Complete these if-clauses.

1. You would get better if you ___________________(not/eat) so much.
2. My mum will shout at me if I __________________(eat) something wrong.
3. You ___________________ (get) fat if you arent careful.
4. What _________________(you/do) if you had to go on a diet?
VII. Give two examples of a fruit and or vegetable for each colour.
1. Yellow -

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2. Green __________________________

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3. Orange __________________________

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4. Red

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5. Purple - __________________________

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