Unit 8. Life in the future

Welcome to our lesson !
Warm- up
eating vegetables & fruits
using drugs
stress
smoking
drinking water
alcohol
doing exercise
eating a lot of meat
Which one are bad/ good for our health?
Unit 8. Life in the future
Lesson 3. Listening
1. Vocabulary
I. Pre - listening
incredible (adj):
extremely good; impossible or very difficult to believe
(tốt đẹp; ngoài mức tưởng tượng)
fatal (adj):
nguy hiểm, gây tử vong
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 (v):
nấm
predict (v): = guess (v)
tiên đoán, dự đoán, dự báo
curable (adj):
chữa được, chữa khỏi được (bệnh...)
develop quickly
(phát triển nhanh)
(n)
I. Pre - listening
2. Guessing true or false
Nobody can predict how long we will be able
to live in the 21th 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.
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II. While - listening
Task 1: Decide whether the following statements
are true or false
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Many scientists
2. People’s general health will improve, centenarian
population is mushrooming.
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Task 2. Listen again & choose the correct answers (A, B, or C).
1. What are the factors that help people have long longer life expectancy according to Dr. Davis?
C. Eating more healthily, cutting down on things like butter, alcohol, and cigarettes.
B. Eating more healthily, cutting down on things like sugar, alcohol, and cigarettes.
A. Eating more healthily, cutting down on things like butter, alcohol, and coffee.
2. Which factor is the most importance one? Why?
A. The development in population. Because nobody dies from old age, just from diseases that affects people when they get older.
B. The development in medical science. Because nobody dies from old age, just from diseases that affects people when they get older.
C. The development in medicine science. Because a lot of people die from old age, just from diseases that affects people when they get older.
3.What will we have been able to do about AIDS in ten year’s time?
A. In ten year’s time AIDS will not also be brought under control.
B. We’ll have been able to bring AIDS under control.
C. We’ll have been able to bring AIDS over control.
II. WHILE - LISTENING
Task 1. True / False statements:
1. F 2. F 3.F 4. T 5. T
III. POST – LISTENING: 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.
II. WHILE - LISTENING
Task 1. True / False statements:
Task 2. Listen again & choose the correct answers (A, B, or C).
C. Eating more healthily, cutting down on things like butter, alcohol, and cigarettes.
B. The development in medical science. Because nobody dies from old age, just from diseases that affects people when they get older.
A. In ten year’s time AIDS will not also be brought under control.
1. F 2. F 3.F 4. T 5. T
Homework
Find information of having a very long life.