'Obese' or just 'very overweight'?

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Teachit Author
'Obese' or just 'very overweight'?
Main Subject
Category
ELT: Synonyms, opposites, collocations, idioms
Resource type
Student activity
Skills
Vocabulary learning

A blog extract gets students thinking about the differences between the words 'obese' and 'overweight'. The resource then encourages students to explore the differences for themselves using concordance lines from an online corpus. NB You don't need internet access in class to use this resource. Could be helpful to look at 11637 Using concordance lines first.

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Really useful. I used this during a food and health project.

15/02/2016

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Really useful. I used this during a food and health project.

15/02/2016

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