A. Lead-in. Ø What is dieting?

Ø What is dieting? What dieting classifications do you

know?

Ø Is dieting an urgent measure or it is merely a current

fashion set by glamorous glossy magazine industry?

Ø What does a person have to take into consideration before

following a diet?

Ø Have you ever been on diet? Was it a doctor who

prescribed a diet for you or it was purely your own decision?

Reading

I. Read and translate the following quotations. Express your point of view (agree/disagree).

· When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. ~Woody Allen

· Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb

· One should eat to live, not live to eat. ~Cicero, Rhetoricorum LV

· The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. ~Andy Rooney

· The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor. ~Author Unknown

· To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb

· I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. ~Ed Bluestone

II. Skim the text to grasp the general idea. Pay attention to the words in bold.