PHYSICAL WELLBEING

The topic Physical wellbeing explores the concept of physical wellbeing not just as the absence of disease or pain, but as a lifestyle behavior that ensures health, avoids preventable diseases and conditions and entails living in a balanced state of body, mind and spirit.

Students will be offered opportunities to communicate about the topic of physical wellbeing, by looking at examples of personal, local, national and global interest in a range of subtopics:

• Body
• Health: lifestyle, fitness, diet, stress
• People in healthcare (doctors, nurses, specialists, surgeons, etc)
• Illnesses, addictions, eating disorders, obesity
• Medicines: pharmacies, prescriptions, treatments

By being exposed to a variety of text types in relation to physical wellbeing, students will be challenged to compare the target language and culture(s) to other languages and cultures, as well as to other disciplinary areas in the DP.

Through a variety of subtopics, students will also be invited to answer a range of questions in the context of the study of physical well-being: 

• How do I achieve a balanced and healthy lifestyle?