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Reading 
Before You Read
1. Observe the picture that comes along with the blog post below and 
talk to a classmate. Where are those people? What are they doing? 
2. Discuss the questions below with a classmate.
a. How often do you go to the supermarket?
b. When you buy food, do you read the information on the 
package (ingredients and nutrition facts)? Why (not)?
c. What foods do you consider healthy and what foods are 
unhealthy?
As You Read
Read the blog post and do the activities.
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Respostas pessoais
Peça aos estudantes que façam a leitura do texto e realizem as 
atividades a seguir.
They are at a supermarket. They are buying some vegetables. 
LEWIS, Brittany. Is It Really Healthier? Arena District Athletic Club, Feb. 19, 2018.
Available at: https://www.arenaathletic.com/Blog/is-it-really-healthier/. Accessed on: Apr. 6, 2020.
2. Oriente os estudantes a res-
ponder oralmente e em duplas 
a esta atividade. Se necessário, 
responda às perguntas, com 
informações sobre você, para 
servir de exemplo. Em seguida, 
escolha alguns estudantes e 
peça que relatem brevemente o 
que discutiram com os colegas.
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Is it really healthier?
Smarter shopping
Food packaging makes a lot of promises. All Natural. 
Reduced Fat. Multigrain. But it’s the nutrition 
and ingredient labels on the back that are the 
truth-tellers. Just because a food is low or reduced 
in one nutrient doesn’t always mean it is healthier 
than its original counterpart. […]
Whole wheat or regular pasta?
[…] One cup of cooked whole wheat pasta packs 23 percent of your daily fi ber and it’s 
more satiating than the white kind. […] Fiber is your friend, go for whole wheat.
Low-fat or full-fat cheese?
White low-fat cheese has 3 or fewer grams of fat per serving, in most cases, it also 
has more sodium than full-fat cheese. And it may not taste as good as full-fat cheese. 
Bottom line: when you need a large quantity of cheese – like in a casserole – use low-fat 
or a mix of low and full-fat. Save full-fat for when you really want to enjoy cheese with 
bread or just by itself.
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3. Complete the sentence below in your notebook.
 
The author’s intention is to .
a. offer tips for a healthier diet X
b. teach how to cook some food
c. advertise a new supermarket chain
d. help people to save money when shopping for food
4. Observe the pictures below. They show some items mentioned in 
the text “Is it really healthier?”. Use your notebook to write the 
heading that matches each picture.
TIP 
Todo autor tem um 
propósito ao escrever 
um texto. Para 
entender a intenção 
de um autor, pergunte 
a si mesmo após uma 
leitura atenta do texto 
dele: seu principal 
objetivo é entreter o 
leitor, convencê-lo a 
praticar alguma coisa, 
divulgar um produto, 
informar?
a. b. c.
Low-fat or full-fat cheese? Whole wheat or regular pasta? Smarter shopping
5. The words below are from the text on page 75. Use your 
notebook to match them to their meanings in Portuguese.
a. labels (l. 5)
b. counterpart (l. 8)
c. low-fat (l. 12)
d. full-fat (l. 12)
e. serving (l. 13)
f. taste (l. 14)
 I. com baixo teor de gordura
 II. com alto teor de gordura
 III. rótulos; etiquetas
 IV. correspondente, 
equivalente, similar
 V. porção
 VI. ter (um certo) sabor
6. In your notebook, check the statements that are correct, 
according to the text.
a. It’s important to check the nutrition and ingredient labels to 
know if the product is healthy. X
b. Every time you see “reduced” on a label, it means that the 
product is healthier.
c. Whole wheat pasta contains more fiber than regular pasta. X
d. Regular pasta is more satiating than whole wheat pasta.
e. When you have just a small serving of cheese, it’s ok to eat 
full-fat cheese. X
a. III; b. IV; c. I; d. II; e. V; f. VI
5. Lembre aos estudantes o 
uso da estratégia de inferência 
de palavras desconhecidas por 
meio do contexto em que estão 
inseridas, abordada na Unidade 
3. Também chame a atenção 
deles para as palavras transpa-
rentes (cognatas) no texto. Peça 
que identifiquem algumas des-
sas palavras (promises, natural, 
reduced, multigrain, nutrition, 
ingredient, original, percent, 
satiating, fiber, grams, quantity).
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