👨‍🏫 For Teachers

Guide students through timed scanning techniques. Have learners locate keywords in paragraphs A–D before attempting the questions. Use the integrated evidence keys during class review to demonstrate how IELTS distractors work.

🧑‍🎓 For Students

Read the magazine article once for general understanding, noting the main idea of each paragraph. Answer the 8 questions below, paying special attention to qualifying words like all, only, or significantly.

Where does the idea of walking 10,000 steps a day come from? It began in Japan in 1965 with a pedometer called Manpo-kei, which means "10,000 steps meter". A Japanese company sold it as part of a marketing campaign. The number did not come from scientific research.

So what does research say about steps? In 2019, Dr I-Min Lee and her team studied 16,741 women whose average age was 72. The women wore a small device for seven days. The researchers then followed them for about four years.

Women who walked about 4,400 steps a day were less likely to die during the study than women who walked about 2,700 steps a day. The benefit grew with more steps, but it stopped growing at about 7,500 steps a day.

The study shows a link, but it cannot prove that walking causes the benefit. The women were older, so the results may not be the same for younger people.