Upper Intermediate Portfolio - Straightforward

7c Lifestyle changes
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Can do (tick ✓)
I can understand the main ideas in a text.
I can give verbal support and guidance.
I can use the future continuous to talk about an action that will be in progress at a
point of time in the future.
I can use the future perfect to talk about an action that will be completed before a
point in time in the future.
Lifestyle changes
Complete this sentence to make it true for you.
If I could change just one thing in my life, I would .
I feel like a
change of lifestyle.
What about
learning to fly
Being a life coach
Which of the following do you think is important to
be a successful life coach
be a good listener
have a lot of good advice
be interested in people
have good communication skills
be good at building a rapport with people
be good at understanding people
charge a high fee
have done lots of different things
Did you know
China has the greatest
number of smokers
in the world. Over
350 million Chinese
people smoke and
one million a year die
of smoking-related
diseases. 60% of
all adult Chinese
males smoke. In the
European Union,
the Greeks smoke
the most, while the
Swedes smoke the
least. The good news
for the Greeks is that
the percentage of
young people starting
smoking is among the
lowest in Europe.
Do you think you would make a good life coach Why or why not
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving,
you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud (British writer, broadcaster & politician, 1924–)