day 15mission: Xiaoming slows down

mission: Xiaoming slows down

Retell a story and an anecdote about health, read an argument aloud, then answer two questions back to back: an experience with its lesson, and your idea of real rest.

words to say

• 症状 zhèngzhuàng · symptom
• 诊断 zhěnduàn · to diagnose
• 治疗 zhìliáo · to treat; treatment
• 恢复 huīfù · to recover, be restored
• 预防 yùfáng · to prevent
• 疾病 jíbìng · disease (formal)
• 抵抗 dǐkàng · to resist
• 加班 jiābān · to work overtime

a passage to retell

• A young man was under a lot of pressure and could never sleep at night. He went to see a doctor; the old doctor gave him no medicine, just wrote him a note. The note said: every evening, take the neighbour’s dog for a walk, and keep it up for a month. A month later he was sleeping soundly every night, and he had made a new friend. Which shows that rest doesn’t have to mean lying still.
• On the first of January, a man made up his mind to get fit. He paid for a whole year at a gym in one go. In February he went once, found it too tiring and never went back. In December he finally walked into the gym for the second time. He said to the staff: “I’ve come to ask how to cancel my membership.”

a passage to read aloud

很多人年轻的时候用健康换钱，年纪大了又用钱换健康。这其实是一笔很不值得的买卖。预防疾病往往比治疗疾病容易得多，花的钱也少得多。每天睡够七个小时，每个星期运动三次，少吃油，少吃盐，这些事一点儿都不难，却常常被我们忽视。等到身体出了问题再想恢复，就需要很长的时间了。所以说，健康才是一个人最重要的财富。一切都可以重新开始，身体却只有一个。