Instituto superior de Profesorado N 4 "Ángel Cárcano"

Vocabulary

Discourse
LINGUISTICS
Merele, Gastón; Rivera, Paula & Velazquez, Lionela
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Ac tiv
Find a newspaper article that you
could use to teach vocabulary.Pick
out the words that you feel are
crucial for understanding the text
and that have enough contextual
support to allow the reader to
guess the meaning.
 SEASON
IS REALLY GETTING WORSE EVERY YEAR.
 Allergy season is really getting worse
every year.
We are slowly beginning to understand how our (1) systems work, which will help us prevent
(2) – but more research is desperately needed.
If it seems as though everyone around you has been sneezing, coughing and wheezing more often
this summer, you’re not imagining things. Allergies are both becoming more common and getting (3) . In some ways, this is not
news. (4) allergy, asthma, eczema and food allergy rates have all been ticking upward for at least the past 50 years. Currently,
approximately 30-40% of the global population has at least one allergic condition. Industrialisation, urbanisation, changing diets,
overuse of (5) and the climate crisis – with its warming (6) , increased flooding and wildfires – are all exacerbating
the difficulties our immune systems face as they are exposed to more and more things. So recently, if you’ve felt like your body
is becoming more and more irritated by the world around it, you’re probably correct. In essence, our immune (7) are being
overwhelmed by modern life – more pollen in the air from both native and invasive (8) ; all the chemicals that we use in
products, from detergents to shampoos; particulate matter from the fuels we (9) .Even our companion animals – all the
dogs, cats and birds that live inside our homes – are developing allergies. All of our immune systems are (10) to keep up
with the changes we’ve been making over the past 200 years.
 Allergy season is really getting worse
every year.
We are slowly beginning to understand how our (1) IMMUNE systems work, which will help us
prevent (2)ALLERGIES but more research is desperately needed.
If it seems as though everyone around you has been sneezing, coughing and wheezing more often
this summer, you’re not imagining things. Allergies are both becoming more common and getting (3) WORSE . In some ways, this
is not news. (4) RESPIRATORY allergy, asthma, eczema and food allergy rates have all been ticking upward for at least the past
50 years. Currently, approximately 30-40% of the global population has at least one allergic condition. Industrialisation,
urbanisation, changing diets, overuse of (5) ANTIBIOTICS and the climate crisis – with its warming (6) TEMPERATURES , increased
flooding and wildfires – are all exacerbating the difficulties our immune systems face as they are exposed to more and more
things. So recently, if you’ve felt like your body is becoming more and more irritated by the world around it, you’re probably
correct. In essence, our immune (7) CELLS are being overwhelmed by modern life – more pollen in the air from both native and
invasive (8)PLANTS; all the chemicals that we use in products, from detergents to shampoos; particulate matter from the fuels
we (9) BURN .Even our companion animals – all the dogs, cats and birds that live inside our homes – are developing allergies. All
of our immune systems are (10) STRUGGLING to keep up with the changes we’ve been making over the past 200 years. (...)
 Let's think a bit..
ACROSS
4. a skin condition in which areas of the skin become red,
rough, and sore and make you want to rub them
6. a condition that makes a person become sick or develop
skin or breathing problems because they have eaten
certain foods or been near certain substances
7. the smallest basic unit of a plant or animal
8. protected against a particular disease by particular
substances in the blood
9. a medicine or chemical that can destroy harmful
bacteria in the body or limit their growth

DOWN
1. to cause someone to feel sudden strong emotion
2. relating to breathing
3. tending to spread in an uncontrollable way
5. to make a high, rough noise while breathing
because of some breathing difficulty
 TH E O R E T I C A L
R E F E R E N C E S

TOP DOWN APPROACH COLLOCATIONS

-Students use background information to
predict what a newspaper article might be
about from the headline.
-Present language in a context RECEPTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE
ATTRITION
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