English 12 Lesson Listening Which one are bad/ good for our health? vegetables & fruits balanced diet drugs medicine stress exercise cancer smoking drink water alcohol Good for health: exercise vegetables & fruits drink water balanced diet medicine Bad for health: drugs stress cancer alcohol smoking Before you listen Which of the following factors 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 Listen and repeat • • • • • • • • • incredible (adj): extremely good; impossible or very difficult to believe (tốt đẹp; 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): sống vĩnh mushroom (n): nấm predict (v): tiên đoán, dự đoán, dự báo curable (adj): chữa được, chữa khỏi (bệnh ) While you listen Task • 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 • People’s general health will improve because they eat a lot of mushrooms → As our general health improves, centenarian population is mushrooming • Nowadays, if people look after themselves, they can live to be 90 → Nowadays, average life expectancy is only about nearly 80 years • Within 30 years, 80% of cancers will be curable • Eternal life isn’t impossible F F F T T Task 2: Listen again and answer the questions 1.What are the factors that help people have longer life expectancy according to Dr Davis? Eating more healthily, cutting down on things like butter, alcohol and cigarettes Which factor is the most important one? Why? Which will we have been able to about AIDS in ten years’ time? The development in medical science We’ll have been able to bring AIDS under control Task Work in pairs Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having a very long life Advantages Disadvantages - Have time to things they want - Enjoy life more - See their children and grandchildren grow up - Help their children and grandchildren - Too weak to 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