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Reading & Speaking

- I think garlic shampoo is designed for hair loss.

- I think Prozac is designed to prevent depression.
- I think The Fresh Kiss is designed to prevent bad breath.
- I think Nicorette is designed for coughing.

3 Work in pairs. Answer the following questions.

Which…
1. two products come from the USA? Prozac and The Fresh Kiss
2. are traditional remedies? The Fresh Kiss and Charcoal
3. remedies use natural products? Charcoal
4. provide substitutes? Nicorette

4 How do you think the remedies work?

Once the medicine is swallowed, the digestive juices in the stomach break it down, and the
medicine can pass into the bloodstream. Your blood then carries it to other parts of your body
where the medicine works best.
5 Which of these remedies do you think are…
1 effective? 2 dangerous? 3 useless?
- I think the Fresh Kiss meter is useless. If you have bad breath you can just chew
gum…
- I think Nicorette is effective, because it works by replacing some of the nicotine your
body used to get from tobacco.
- I think Prozac is dangerous because it can generate dependency.

Language Focus
The infinitive

1-b
2- d
3- a
4-c

take, cost, work, affect, measure

Practice
1 Complete the sentences so that they are true for you.
1 I find it easy to lose weight.
2 The best way to cure depression is to decide to go to therapy.
3 I’m planning to change to lead a healthier life.
4 I’ve recently started to see a psychologist.
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Allergic to Life

Vocabulary & Speaking

Allergies & their symptoms

I think the cartoon is kind of sarcastic because it uses metaphor and reflects situations of
daily life about allergies. Also reflects its symptoms.

- coconut
- peanut
- milk
- egg
- soy
- crustaceans
- molluscs
1- b
2- c
3- a

- I’m allergic to coconut. If I eat one, my nose will run and my lips swell.

Listening

1 modern technology
2 stress
3 diet
4 obsessive cleaning
5 pollution
6 vaccinations