Unit 6: Disease

Discussion point
1. Personally, I have admit that I use cell phone everday. I spend looking at my
phone about 5-6hours or more every day. I’m a bit worried this will affect my
health because there are a lot of researches and evidences showed that using
smartphone for too many hours per day and making it a habit will lead to a lot of
eye and skin diseases.
2. Eye diseases, insomnia and memory loss are also increasing by modern
technology.
Eyes are likely to have severe vision impairment and frequent dry eyes if the phone
is used for too many hours a day. Besides, this also leads to long-term insomnia or
even complete insomnia because the doctor said that the cell phone screen emits
blue light that reduces the sleep regulator, causing sleep and activities to be broken.
The doctor also warned that memory will be disrupted and reduced when not
having enough sleep.
3. Now I'm trying to reduce the time I use my phone every day as much as
possible. If it's completely unnecessary to use the phone or laptop, I won't open it.
Online leisure activities can be replaced by playing chess, reading or going for a
walk.
Before you watch
1–b
2–d
3–f
4–a
5–c
6–e
While you watch
1T
2 F good bacteria and process honey
3T
4 F 13

Listening 1: Germ myths

A Vocabulary preview
1.
1–b
2–a
3–d
4–c
5–f
6–e
7–g
8–h
2.
1. unsafe
2. harmful
3. transmitted
4. germ /dʒɜːm/
5. circulates /ˈsɜː.kjə.leɪt/
6. concentration
7. digest /daɪˈdʒest/
8. myth /mɪθ/
C Global lis
1b (which claim are true and which complete nonsense)
2b ( Most germ are not harmful and in fact some good bacteria in our bodies help
us to digest food so you mean that we don’t need to worry about germ..)
3c( There aree a lots of different ways to get sick on a plane but is’s very unlike to
be caused by recirculated air.)( That they get sick when they fight because the air is
circulated and recirculated on the plane the whole flight)
4b( it’s still okey to eat it not valid of course as soon as the food touches the floor
and comes to contact with back to you thiss usually means it’s unsafe )
5c

D Close listening
1. Germs
2. Not harmful
3. Banknotes
4. Coins
5. printed on
6. 99,9
7. 20 8. 12
9. spread
10. Unsafe

Listening 2: Disease detective

A Vocab pre
1.
1c
2d
3a
4b
5e
6g
7f
8h
2.
1 extinct
2 Researchers
3 figure out
4 traced back to
5 toxin
6 epidemic
7 peak
8 concerns

B Before you listen

1. Animal lives in land flying fox, in water: prawn, both: snail.
2. Other animals live in:
- Land: Tiger, rabbit, dog, cat, giraffe, lizard, horse,...
- Water: Sharks, whales, jellyfish, octopus, seahorses, dolphins,..
- Both land and water: Seals, snakes, crabs, ducks, crocodiles, frogs,...
C Global listening
1 – c. understanding the causes of the problems.( researchers had to investigate the
causes of these epidemic)
2 – b. the construction of a new dam. ( finding a solution to this health crisis
became critical after a lot of research scientist traced problem back to the dam)
3 – c. reintroduce praws to the river. ( a group of researchers called project
Crevette decided that the best way to eliminate the disease was to
restore(reintroduce) environmental conditions of river so prawns would be able to
live there again)
4 – a. toxins in the meat. ( the most commonly eaten meat in the area was flying
fox and flying fox regularly eat the seeds of the plant this meant that there was a
high concentration of toxins in the meat of the flying fox…. Flying fox meat was
cause of the epidemic)
D Close listening
1 – F (by freshwater snails)
2–T
3–T
4–T
5 – F (the river snails this would mean fewer parasites in the river)
6 – F (meaning that the flour couldn’t have caused the disease)
7 – F (flying fox population decline due to overhunting the incidence of Lytico-
bodig)
8–T
Critical thinking
1. The host said “You either wash your hands all the time or you get sick?”
2. Examples of true choices: 1, 4
Speaking skill
1. What exactly do you mean – c. by environment factors?
2. So, your point is – a. that disease is caused bt stress?
3. So, you mean – d. you think stress was the biggest factors?
4. Could you clarify for me – b. how his health improved?
Pronunciation for speaking
1. Couldn’t it – do they
2. Didn’t she
3. Wasn’t it
4. Didn’t they
VOCABULARY
Vocab pre
1.
1a
2b
3d
4e
5c
6g
7f
8h
2.
1 check up
2 life- threatening
3 critical
4 come down with
5 infection
6 ache
7 treat
8 disorder
Academic word
1.
1g
2e
3d
4b
5f
6c
7a
2.
1 valid
2 vary
3 eliminate
4 incidence
5 clarity
6 assess
7 reinforce
Speaking
Speaking model
1: What were the main’s symptoms? He was very hot and the skin on his face was
red, He also had a headache and felt very weak ,thirsty, slight fever
2: What was four explanations the group thought of ?
+ Or maybe he could have had a bad cold
+He may have eaten something he was sensitive to
+ He could have had a very bad sunbrun ,couldn’t he?
+ It couldn’t have been just a bad sunburn
+ It could have been
Grammar
1.
1 might
2 can’t have been
3 must
4 may
5 couldn’t
2.
1, Erin might have became ill after a business trip broad
2, Hundreds of people must got sick after eating at the same restaurant
3, Molly couldn’t have been collapsed after finishing the marathon.
Speaking skill
Listen to the conversation . Match the two halves to form questions.
1 What exactly do you mean by environment factors?
2 So , your point that disease is caused bt stress?
3 So, you mean you think stress was the biggest factors?
4 Could you clarify for me how his health improved?
Pronunciation for speaking
1, Couldn’t it , do they
2, didn’t she
3, wasn’t it
4, didn’t they