Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 12 unit 8: Life in the future

English 12
Lesson 3. Listening


Which one are bad/ good for our
health?

vegetables & fruits balanced diet drugs medicine stress do
exercise cancer smoking drink water alcohol


Good for health:
do exercise
vegetables & fruits
drink water
balanced diet
medicine

Bad for health:
drugs
stress
cancer
alcohol
smoking


Before you listen
Which of the following factors do you think
might help people have a long and healthy
life?

+ eating healthy food
+ laughing a lot
+ drinking a lot
+ doing exercise
+ going to bed early
+ eating a lot of meat

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Listen and repeat
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incredible (adj): extremely good; impossible or very
difficult to believe (tốt đẹp; ngoài mức tưởng tượng)
fatal (adj): tác hại, nguy hiểm
centenarian (n): someone who is a hundred years old or
more (sống trăm tuổi)

eradicated (adj): trừ diệt, huỷ diệt
life expectancy (n): tuổi thọ trung bình
eternal life (n): cuộc sống vĩnh hằng
mushroom (n): nấm
predict (v): tiên đoán, dự đoán, dự báo
curable (adj): chữa được, chữa khỏi được (bệnh...)


While you listen
Task 1
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1. Nobody can predict how long we will be able to live
in the 21th century.
→ Many scientists predict that in the 21 st century people
will be living into the age of 130.
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2. People’s general health will improve because they eat
a lot of mushrooms.
→ As our general health improves, centenarian population
is mushrooming.
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3. Nowadays, if people look after themselves, they can
live to be 90.
→ Nowadays, average life expectancy is only about nearly
80 years.
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4. Within 30 years, 80% of cancers will be curable.
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5. Eternal life isn’t impossible.

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Task 2: Listen again and answer the
questions
1.What are the factors that help people have longer life expectancy according to Dr. Davis?

1. Eating more healthily, cutting down on things
like butter, alcohol and cigarettes.
2. Which factor is the most important one? Why?

3. Which will we have been able to do about AIDS in ten years’ time?

2. The development in medical science.
3. We’ll have been able to bring AIDS under
control.


Task
2
Work in pairs. Discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of having a very long life
Advantages

Disadvantages

- Have time to do things
they want.
- Enjoy life more.
- See their children and
grandchildren grow up.
- Help their children and
grandchildren

- Too weak to do things
and often get sick.
- Be burden of their
children and
grandchildren.
- Feel lonely when
children have grown up.


Homework
Find information of having a
very long life.