unit 8 listening

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 medici

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

Lesson 3 Listening

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

• 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 )

• 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.

• 2 People’s general health will improve because they eat a

lot of mushrooms

→ As our general health improves, centenarian population is

mushrooming

• 3 Nowadays, if people look after themselves, they can

live to be 90.

→ Nowadays, average life expectancy is only about nearly 80

years.

• 4 Within 30 years, 80% of cancers will be curable.

• 5 Eternal life isn’t impossible

While you listen

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Task 1

Task 2 : Listen again and answer the questions

1.What are the factors that help people have longer life

expectancy according to Dr

Davis?

2 Which factor is the most

important one? Why?

3 Which will we have been able

to do about AIDS in ten years’

time?

1 Eating more healthily, cutting down

on things like butter, alcohol and

cigarettes.

2 The development in medical

science.

3 We’ll have been able to bring AIDS under control.

Work in pairs Discuss the advantages and

disadvantages of having a very long life

Advantages

- Have time to do things

they want.

- Enjoy life more.

- See their children and

grandchildren grow up.

- Help their children and

grandchildren

Disadvantages

- Too weak to do things and often get sick.

- Be burden of their children and

grandchildren.

- Feel lonely when children have grown up.

Task 2

Find information of

having a very long life.