Describe something you do to stay healthy.
健康のためにしていること(活動・スキル)— Part2のキューカードです。2分間の回答を組み立てる練習に使えます。
キューカード(話すべきこと)
- what it is
- when you started doing it
- how often you do it
- and explain why you think it works
使えるコロケーション
| 表現 | 日本語訳 |
|---|---|
| health-conscious | 健康志向の |
| get into the routine of ~ | 〜を習慣化する |
| preventative | 予防的な |
| cut down on ~ | 〜を減らす |
| an early riser | 早起きの人 |
| pay dividends | 後になって報われる |
| listen to my body | 体の声に耳を傾ける |
| sustainable | 無理なく続けられる |
モデル回答 — まず自分で話してから開く
The habit I'd like to describe is my morning walk — thirty to forty minutes, every day before work, which I've kept up for about three years now.
It started, as many good habits do, from a bad place. During a stressful project I was sleeping badly, eating at my desk, and a routine health check produced numbers that frightened me. I knew myself well enough to skip any dramatic plan — no gym memberships, no radical diets, because I'd abandoned both before. Instead I picked the most boring possible intervention: leave the house at seven, walk one loop of the local park, come back.
The genius of it, if I can call it that, is that it's too easy to fail. Rain? I have an umbrella. Tired? It's only walking. Because the bar is so low, the streak survived, and after a few months it stopped requiring willpower at all — it's simply what mornings are.
Why does it work? Partly the exercise itself, but I suspect mostly the knock-on effects: I sleep better because of the morning light, I eat breakfast properly because I'm awake earlier, and I arrive at work with my head already sorted. My health numbers quietly normalised within a year. It's the highest-return thirty minutes of my day.
Part3につながる質問(4問)
- Are people more health-conscious now than in the past?
- Whose responsibility is public health — individuals' or the government's?
- Why do people find it hard to keep healthy habits?
- Will people live longer in the future?
モデル回答 — まず自分で話してから開く
質問
Are people more health-conscious now than in the past?
モデル回答
In awareness, hugely; in behaviour, only partly. Today everyone can recite the advice — sleep more, sugar less — and the market for fitness trackers and healthy food keeps exploding, which our grandparents would find baffling. Yet obesity and lifestyle diseases keep rising in most developed countries, so knowledge clearly isn't translating into action. I'd argue the environment is the culprit: we know more than ever while living in cities engineered for sitting and snacking. So people are more health-conscious — and simultaneously less healthy. Awareness lost the fight with convenience.
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