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Top 8 Fun Ways to Live Longer

A healthy lifestyle doesn't have to mean treadmills and salads everyday. Many activities that are fun and pleasurable are also good for you. By understanding how these activities can help you live longer and what to do to get the most benefits, you'll be putting some fun into healthy living.

1. Eat Dark Chocolate. Dark chocolate is a wonderful food that contains a large amount of antioxidants that protect your body from aging. Find good quality dark chocolate, learn to appreciate it, and have a bit of it each day. Eating chocolate may lower your blood pressure and cholesterol while providing an energy boost.

2. Smile. Smiling is a great way to change your attitude, connect with people and give benefit to your body. Like relaxation, smiling can work to counteract the effects of stress. By forcing ourselves to smile, we "trick" our body into believing that everything is good, thereby reducing stress. Like a switch, smiling can actually change your mood. So put a smile on, even if you don't feel like it, and pretty soon you'll be smiling for real.

3. Relax. Relaxation is the opposite of stress. While stress brings harmful health effects, relaxation helps our bodies to rest, heal and function better. By practicing daily relaxation techniques, you can train yourself to turn off your stress and replace it with calm energy. This will improve your blood pressure, heart rate and ability to cope with life's challenges.

4. Make Exercise Play. Physical games and sports are a great way to keep both your body and mind healthy. Simple exercise routines are great for maintaining balance, flexibility, endurance and strength. Group games and sports can give your mind a workout as well, as you anticipate other people's actions and how to work together. Find a game and activity that suits your level of physical ability and play often.

5. Sleep. Sleep is an essential body function. Most Americans do not get enough sleep. Medications, stress, illness and poor sleep habits all can prevent you from getting between 7 and 9 hours a night. The health benefits of sleep include more energy, better immune function, and more.

6. Spend Time With Loved Ones. Relationships are an important part of health. Not only do strong bonds with other people mean you will have help when you need it, being connected also means protection from loneliness, depression, and mental illness. Spend time cultivating your relationships with friends and family to improve your health and your life.

7. Solve Puzzles and Play Brain Games. Mind games are a great way to stay involved and engaged in the world. Games can exercise different parts of your mind and entice your curiosity. If possible, choose social games like chess or bridge that exercise your brain while keeping you connected with others.

8. Be Positive. Having a positive attitude about aging can add more than seven years to your life, according to researchers. Avoid the cultural push to glorify youth and regret each passing year. Find ways to pleasure in your increasing age and enjoy greater learning, experience, and control in your life.

Fast food

Advantages
      -          Look appetising, mouth watering

-          We can’t resist the temptation

-          Tasting delicious

-          Be easy to prepare at home

-          Be delivered to our doorstep

-          Be simply to eat everywhere

-          Be relatively cheap

-          People on low incomes can afford them

-          These restaurants attract young people

-          The atmosphere is friendly

-          Children can run, speak loudly all over the place without anyone complaining

-          They are often open 24 hours a day

-          People can chat, listen to music, study

-          Fast food saves time and energy after a long day of work, with no time for shopping, cooking

-          Service is fast, people’s time is limited

-          Children get small toys with happy meals

-          Celebrate birthdays here

      -          There are playgrounds inside or outside:
Disadvantages:

-          Are high in fat, sugar, carbohydrate, calories

-          Are low in fibre, vitamins, minerals, protein

-          Contain artificial additives

-          Greasy food weakens concentration

-          Feel drowsy

-          They provide energy but only in the short run

-          May cause allergy, diarrhoea

-          A high intake of salt, sugar and fat damage vital organs (liver, kidneys)

-          Raise cholesterol levels

-          Obesity is a main risk factor for stroke, diabetes, cancer

-          There is obviously a link between fast food and the increasing number of obese people in the western world

-          Fast food restaurants offer super-size options

-          Might become addictive

-          Be hooked on cream cakes, snacks

-          Often crowded, noisy

-          Poor choice of dishes

Holidays vocabulary (definitions)

• all-in package/package holiday: a holiday where you purchase the travel and accommodation together
• breathtaking view: an extremely beautiful view
• charter-flight: a cheaper form of flying than a scheduled flight
• check-in desk: the place at the airport where you register for your flight and deposit your luggage
• departure lounge: where you wait for your flight to be called
• far-off destination: somewhere a long way away
• to get away from it all: to take a holiday to escape a busy or stressful lifestyle
• guided tour: an organised group shown around a place of interest by an expert
• holiday brochure: a glossy publication with details of holiday packages
• holiday destination: where you go for a holiday
• holiday of a lifetime: a special holiday that you are unlikely to repeat
• holiday resort: a place where lots of people go for a holiday
• hordes of tourists: crowds of tourists
• local crafts: objects produced locally
• long weekend: an extended weekend holiday including Friday or Monday
• out of season: outside of the main holiday period
• picturesque village: very pretty village
• passport control: the place where your passport is checked
• places of interest: sites of interest to tourists
• wildlife safari: a holiday, often in Africa, to observe wild animals
• self-catering: a holiday where you supply your own food
• short break: a short holiday
• to go sightseeing:  to look around the tourist sites
• stunning landscape: extremely beautiful countryside
• travel agent: a shop that specialises in booking holidays
• tourist trap: somewhere where too many tourists go
• youth hostel: a cheap form of accommodation http://www.myenglishteacher.eu/blog/travel-holiday-vacation-vocabulary-list/

Travelling (phrasal verbs)

1. Drop off -  to take someone to a place and leave them there
2. Check in  - to register at a hotel
3. Check out - to leave and pay for your stay at a hotel
4. Pick up - to go and fetch someone from a place and take them somewhere else
5. Set out - to start a journey
6. Take off - when a plane leaves and begins to fly
7. Get in - when a plane arrives on an airport
8. Get away - to leave to go somewhere for a break or holiday
9. Get on - to climb on board
10. Speed up - to increase speed
11. Look around - to explore what is near you, in your area
12. Hurry up - to rush and not waste time
13. Go back - to go the place someone is leaving from to say goodbye
14. See off - to go the place someone is leaving from to say goodbye
15. Look forward - to look forward to something that is going to happen in the future

Summer break in the USA

The day I left for the USA my family (1)___ me___. We had breakfast on the airport but we had to (2)___ so that I wouldn't miss my flight. It was a teary goodbye, but I was (3)___ to new experiences in the USA. After I (4)___ the plane I made myself comfortable and sent a few last minute goodbye text messages. I thought of how much I wanted this holiday and that I just needed to (5)___ from it all. A short while later the pilot announced that all electronics were to be switched off, for we were preparing to (6)___. As the plane was (7)___ on the runway I sat back and took pleasure in brute force and strength of the momentum the plane was creating to lift itself up from the ground.

When our plane (8)___ at JFK Airport in New York there was already a taxi waiting to (9)___ me ___. The taxi (10)___ me ___ at the Holiday Inn where I would meet up with my friends. After I  (11)___  to the hotel we all went to Time Square, where we (12)___ for the rest of the day. The next day we got up in the early hours of the morning and did some sightseeing. That night we were exhausted and went to bed early. The next morning we (13) ___ after breakfast, rented a car and (14)___ on a cross-country road trip. It would be another 3 months before I would (15)___ home.http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/phrasal-verbs-travel

1) to go away - to leave, as when starting from home on holiday.

2) to set off - to start a journey.

3) to check in - to register (for a flight; in hotel)

4) to check out - to settle one's bill and leave a hotel or other place of lodging.

5) to take off - to rise into the air or begin flight.

6) to get in - to arrive.

7) to see off - to take leave of (someone).

8) to book in - to reserve a room for (oneself or someone else) at a hotel.

9) to get out of - to move out of; as of a room, a country, a bus, etc.

10) to stop over - to interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight.

11) to lay over - to make a stopover in the course of a journey.

12) to go on - to continue a certain state, condition, or activity.

13) to touch down - to make contact with the ground; land.

14) to stop off - to halt and call somewhere, as on a visit or errand, especially en route to another place.

21.09- International Peace Day!

Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.
Be tolerant and patient! Remember that We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. Dalai Lama

Back to School! Inspirational Quotes!

My dear students!! Welcome BACK TO SCHOOL!)) I hope this school year will be fantastic and unforgetable, I am sure you will do your best to overcome all the obstacles in order to achieve all your goals and to pass all your exams with flying colors!! Here are some inspirational messages to encourage you!!!


1) In life, NO ONE and NOTHING will help you until you start helping YOURSELF.

2) Every problem might not have a solution right now, but don’t forget that but every solution was once a problem.

3) It is true that experience is one of life’s best teachers. But if you don’t study you will probably never get any experience in the first place.

4) Listen to your teachers when they tell you WHAT to do. But more importantly, think about it later and ask yourself WHY they told you to do it.

5) Life is all about CHANCES and OPPORTUNITIES. Never leave anything to CHANCE and never let an OPPORTUNITY get away.

6) Study like there’s no tomorrow because if you keep putting off your studies for tomorrow, you’ll probably be too late.

7) Winners from all walks of life have their own strategies and plans but they all have one thing in common – they TRY. Keep trying.

8) Give up on your frustration but never on your hopes. Give up thinking about your setbacks but never on your goals. Give up worrying about your past but never on your future.

9) Everyone has a talent and so do you. Let it shine out, is all you have to do.

10) Don’t feel sad because you are different from others. Every unique skill and talent has the potential to make you a superstar. Embrace your personality and unchain your inner strength. Don’t forget – the one thing that all successful people have in common is that they were different than everyone around them.

11) Failure is only temporary. The only thing that should be permanent is your will to overcome it.

12) Being a good student is less about the ability to rote and more about the desire to learn.

13) It’s okay if you don’t know what to do in life as long as you are not doing something you shouldn’t be doing. Staying on one of the right paths is better than veering off to the wrong ones.

14) You will meet a lot of people in your life who will give you advice and tell you what’s best for you. Listen to them but at the end of the day, do only what your heart tells you to.

15) As a student the most important thing to remember is that Laziness is your worst enemy and Hard Work is your best friend.http://wishesmessages.com/inspirational-messages-for-students-motivation-for-students/