English Speaking club - World Health Day

The English Speaking club session at WOA Dnipropetrovsk started with the table display of the books on health from the Center’s  funds.

During the introduction Club members were telling about their attitude to health and health activities.

The most popular hobbies among the club members are soccer, lawn tennis, Callanetics, jogging, morning exercises, bicycle rides.

Ms.Tamara Gavryliuk presented a slide show about the World Health Day celebrated worldwide on April, 7.

The club members were informed about the World Health Organization’s focus in 2011 – “Combat drug resistance”.  The key messages  of 2011 – to keep one’s hands clean, not to overuse antimicrobials, not to self-administer medicines. The topics of the previous years were presented.

After the slide show the discussion continued and the following topics were introduced:

-        Occupational hazards in different professions;

-        Modern food hazards (genetically modified foods, antibiotics in the food chain, etc.);

-        The notion of a healthy lifestyle;

-        Our own healthy habits (morning exercises, outdoor activities,  proper timing of one’s life);

-        Professional sport and its hazards.

In the last part of the session new vocabulary was introduced by Tanya Volokita for the movie “Lost in translation”.

Number of the visitors – 20  (the English language  teachers –1,  specialists – 12, retired –1, students – 4, pupils – 1, librarian –1)

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