Authentic Text: Assignment C - Part 2.i
Authentic Text: Assignment C - Part 2.i
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Authentic Text
✓ Check the Class Description and Notes on Part 2 on the assignment platform before you begin.
✓ The text should be 500 - 700 words long. (4-5 minutes for listening texts).
✓ In this document, provide a copy of the reading text or a transcript of the listening text you
have chosen.
✓ Ensure the text is referenced, and if you have selected a listening text or video, provide a link.
✓ If you choose a reading text, you can shorten and/or adapt it slightly.
✓ Please supply a copy of the original and your adapted version.
✓ If you have adapted the text, briefly explain the decisions you've made about changing the text
in section b) of the essay.
✓ Highlight 12 vocabulary items (words or phrases) which would be useful to pre-teach
Studies show that consistently using a fitness tracker—a device that tracks your movement, such as a
traditional pedometer or other wearable device, or a smartphone app—can increase your steps per day by
more than a mile, especially if you establish a heart-smart daily goal.
“Fitness trackers are a great tool for heart health,” says Johns Hopkins cardiologist Seth Martin, M.D.,
M.H.S. “Being more active and changing your habits is important, but it can be difficult. Tracking likely helps
a lot of people when combined with a clear goal to shoot for.”
“It gives people information and empowers them to start making changes for heart health,” Martin says.
“And often, their activity level was not something they were paying attention to before they started
tracking.”
Martin hopes to see a similar system become widely used. He also wants to test social media platforms, to
build support and competition networks. “It hasn’t been studied, but we think it will work,” Martin says. “I
think technology can be a very powerful tool to get people moving more.”
Link: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/could-a-fitness-tracker-boost-
your-heart-health