Unit 08 life in the future listening

Listen and repeat:-incredible adj: [in'kredəbl] -fatal adj : ['feitl] -centenarian adj, n: [,senti'neəriən] -eradicated adj: [i'rædikeitid] -life expectancy: [laif iks'pektənsi] -eter

Do you want

to have a long and healthy life?

What will you

do for it?

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): [in'kredəbl]

-fatal (adj) : ['feitl]

-centenarian (adj, n): [,senti'neəriən]

-eradicated (adj): [i'rædikeitid]

-life expectancy: [laif iks'pektənsi]

-eternal life:: [i:'tə:nl laif]

-incredible (adj): không thể tin đ ợc

-fatal (adj) : số mệnh

-centenarian (adj, n): sống tram tuổi

- eradicated (v): tiêu

huỷ

-life expectancy: cuộc sống nh mong đợi -eternal life:: cuộc sống vĩnh hằng

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

follow

Task 1 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

Many scientists

they eat a lot of

mushrooms.

mushroom (n):

nÊm mushroom (v):

bïng næ

90 80

Task 2 Listen again and answer the

questions about the interview.

1 What are the factors that help people have

longer life expectancy according to Dr

Davis?

A Eating more healthy, cutting down on things like butter, alcohol and cigarettes.

B Eating more healthy, cutting down on things like alcohol and cigarettes.

C Eating more things like alcohol and

cigarettes.

A

2 Which factor is the most important one? Why?

A Medical science Because nobody died from old age, just from diseases that affect people when they get older.

B The development in medical science

Because nobody died from old age, just from diseases that affect people when they get

younger.

C.The development in science Because

nobody died from old age, just from diseases that affect people when they get older.

B

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

A We will have been able to bring AIDS control

B We will have been able to bring AIDS under control

C We will have able to bring AIDS under control

B

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having a very long life.

Advantages Disadvantages

-Do many things

you like

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-Over population

- too weak to do

many things

1 Learn new words by heart

2 Prepare D Writing

3 Find out 5 advantages and 5

disadvantages of having a very long life.