2013-03-07

<健康英語>Healthy Breathing 你會呼吸嗎?

我們常對一些生命中重要的人事物無感,等到沒有了,才開始覺得重要,呼吸這件不花大腦的事,就是一個例子。第二個健康英語的話題要來談 ....呼吸。參考網路資源如下:

Article 中級:You're breathing all wrong
Article 初級:20 health benefits of breathing exercises
Video 1 : Lung Exercises : Healing your breath
Video 2 : Deep breathing benefits with Dr. Will Harden


Activities and English Skill training:
1. Debating
2. Discussion
3. Speed oral reading with different variations to train pronunciation and confidence
4. Idioms about breathing

**************** IDIOMS ABOUT BREATHING************
  1. take a breath of fresh air : used in order to say that someone has made a situation more interesting and exciting with their new ideas or new ways of doing things.
  2. hold your breath : tell someone to wait for something to happen
    get your breath back: be able to breath again properly after running
  3. out of breath: not be able to breath easily after physical effort
  4. say ~ under a/your breath:to say something in a quiet voice , usually something unpleasant
  5. catch a breath: to have time to think or rest in the middle of a busy or difficult situation.  If
  6. you catch your breath when you have been running or doing exercise, you stop for a minute to try to breathe more normally.
  7. save your breath=don’t waste your breath : tell someone not to say/do anything, cause there is nothing they can do to change the situation.
  8. say ~ in the same breath: someone has said two things at the same time
  9. take my breath away: something is so beautiful, exciting or surprising that you stop and look and think.
  10. with bated breath: feeling very worried or anxious

Question in Class : Stamina 及 vitality 的不同
Answer :Stamina 指身體上的強壯引申出的精力,耐力之意 ; vitality : 指the power to live or grow 活力