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The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.4 - How to live to 101 for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch the DVD. What are the two main reasons mentioned for why Okinawans live such long lives?
  2. Work in pairs. What does the underlined word refer to? Watch again and check your ideas.
  3. Watch the DVD again and underline the word you hear.

Answer

a)

  • eat different colour vegetables (rainbow diet)
  • not overeat / eat until they're eighty percent full

b)

  1. the percentage of the population in Japan is 100 or older
  2. the science of longevity
  3. at the fruit and vegetable shop
  4. vegetables
  5. the stomach
  6. eat too much

c)

  1. fad
  2. phenomenon
  3. properties
  4. bloated