Health, Fitness, Nutrition & Well-Being in Modern Life

Essential Question

What does it really mean to live a healthy life — and who is responsible for making healthy choices possible?

Health is often presented as an individual responsibility:

exercise more • eat better • sleep enough • manage stress • spend less time online

But real well-being is more complex.

It depends on:

personal behaviour • education • income • environment • social support • access to healthcare • university policies • technology • work and study conditions

This module examines health not simply as a personal issue, but as a professional, social and institutional challenge.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• understand extended texts about health, fitness, nutrition and well-being;

• identify main ideas, supporting details and implied meaning;

• distinguish evidence from opinion;

• recognize paraphrases and contextual synonyms;

• interpret simple statistics and research findings;

• discuss lifestyle and health issues using precise B1+/B2 vocabulary;

• distinguish closely related health vocabulary;

• use common health-related collocations;

• use Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous;

• use modals for advice, obligation, possibility and deduction;

• use First and Second Conditionals;

• recognize and produce Passive Voice structures;

• describe cause-and-effect relationships;

• complete ЄВІ-style lexical and grammatical gaps;

• formulate evidence-based recommendations;

• communicate health information appropriately to non-specialist audiences.