Social Issues
Build your Polish vocabulary for social issues: words for staying healthy, and words for charity and voluntary work, each shown with its English meaning.
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Social issues in Polish
This module builds your Polish vocabulary for social issues, such as staying healthy and helping other people. Each Polish word is shown with its English meaning, so you can learn to recognise it. These words help you talk about health, lifestyle and giving to others.
Diet, charity and wellbeing in Polish
Start with four common words. Each Polish word is shown with its English meaning.
Health or helping?
It helps to sort the words into staying healthy and helping others.
A few more words
Three more useful words: bezdomny means a homeless person, ważny means important, and narkotyki means drugs. When you talk about a social issue, try to add an opinion word such as ważny.
Match the word
- zdrowie
- dieta
- palić
- sport
- Health
- A diet
- To smoke
- Sport
Which is health?
Which Polish word means health?
- zdrowie
- dieta
- sport
- palić
Match more words
- wolontariat
- pomagać
- bieda
- bezdomny
- Voluntary work
- To help
- Poverty
- A homeless person
Ways to stay healthy
Which TWO Polish words are about staying healthy? Choose all that apply.
- dieta
- sport
- bieda
- wolontariat
Never leave the opinion without a reason, in Polish
The social-issue words become sentences with jest (is) and ponieważ (because). A grade-9 answer never states an opinion without a reason attached: - Zdrowie jest ważne = "health is important". A plain claim: the thing, then jest, then what it is like. ważne agrees with zdrowie, which is neuter. - Lubię wolontariat, ponieważ pomagam ludziom = "I like volunteering, because I help people". ponieważ joins the reason to the claim. Note ludziom rather than ludzie - pomagać takes the dative, the case Polish uses for the person you do something for.
Attach a reason, in Polish
A grade-9 answer attaches a reason to the opinion. Which of these does that?
- Lubię wolontariat, ponieważ pomagam ludziom
- Lubię wolontariat
- Zdrowie jest ważne
- Wolontariat i zdrowie
Describe a good lifestyle
Order these to describe a healthy and caring lifestyle: first a health word, then an activity, then a way to help others, then an opinion.
- zdrowie
- sport
- wolontariat
- ważny
Health and volunteering in Polish
The Polish word for health is _____. To stay well you should follow a good _____ and do _____. Giving time to help others without pay is called _____. A person who has no home is _____.
Spot the helping words
Tap the TWO words about helping other people.
- wolontariat
- pomagać
- dieta
- sport
Which is to smoke?
Which Polish word means to smoke?
- palić
- pomagać
- dieta
- zdrowie
Choose the word
For each meaning, choose the correct Polish word.
- You want the word for giving time to help others without being paid. Which word?
- You want the word for the food you eat to stay healthy. Which word?
- You want the word for a person who has no home. Which word?
Write about a social issue
Write two or three sentences in Polish about a social issue, such as healthy living or helping others.
- Name a way to stay healthy
- Name a way to help other people
- Give your opinion using a word like ważny