unit 8-12 co ban

Which ones are bad/ good
for our health?
vegetables & fruits balanced diet
drugs medicine stress doing exercise
cancer smoking drinking water alcohol
Groupwork
( 2 minutes)

Good for health:
doing exercise
vegetables &
fruits
drinking water
balanced diet
medicine
Bad for health:
drugs
stress
cancer
alcohol
smoking

Friday, November 26
th
, 2010


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in‘credible (adj):

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‘fatal (adj) :
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cente‘narian (n):
- e‘radicated (v):
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life ex‘pectancy:
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e‘ternal life:
Vocabulary
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-
in‘credible (adj):
-
‘fatal (adj) :
-
cente‘narian (n):
- e‘radicated (v):
-
life ex‘pectancy:
-
e‘ternal life:
Rub out and remember
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Task 1
Guess true (T) or false (F)
1. Nobody can predict how long we will
be able to live in the 21
st
century.
2. People’s general health will improve
because they eat a lot of
mushrooms.
3. Nowadays, if people look after
themselves, they can live to be 90.
4. Within 30 years, 80% of cancers will
be curable.
5. Eternal life isn’t impossible.
T F
groupwork

Listen to the interview about
people’s life expectancy in the
future and do the tasks that
follow.

Task 1
Listen and decide whether the following

statements are true (T) or false (F)
1. Nobody can predict how long we will
be able to live in the 21
st
century.
2. People’s general health will improve
because they eat a lot of
mushrooms.
3. Nowadays, if people look after
themselves, they can live to be 90.
4. Within 30 years, 80% of cancers will
be curable.
5. Eternal life isn’t impossible.
T F
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Nobody
they eat a lot of
mushrooms.
90

Listen again and answer the questions
about the interview. (Choose A, B or C)
1/ What are the factors that help people have longer life
expectancy according to Dr. Davis ?
A. eating more meat and vegetables.
B. eating more healthily, cutting down on things like butter, alcohol

and cigarettes.
C. doing exercise regularly.
2/ Which factor is the most important one ?
A. the development in medical science.
B. the development in technology.
C. the development in food production.
3 / What will we have been able to do about AIDS in ten
years’ time ?
A. eradicate AIDS.
B. cure AIDS patients.
C. bring AIDS under control.
Task 2


A
B
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What do many scientists predict?
•
They predict that in the 21st
century people will be living
into the incredible age of 130.

Fill in the gaps:
Their is based on
research and on the fact that the
centenarian population
is as our general

health improves.
prediction
mushrooming

Correct the mistake:
A century ago average life
expectancy in Europe was .
45
43

Reorder the following words to make a full sentence:
diseases/ Nobody/ people/ get older/
old age/ just from/ that/ they/ dies
from/ when/ affect.
Nobody dies from old age, just from
diseases that affect people when
they get older.

Complete the sentence:
The most important factor is
the
development in medical science

Give the correct tense of the
verb:
- In ten years’ time AIDS
under control, too.”
will be brought
( bring)

1. Learn new words by heart.
2. Find out 5 advantages and 5
disadvantages of having a
very long life.