English course

FSB- CEIL -VRSP

2023

LESSON 2. Nouns
Text
Tea plant Camellia sinensis has been cultivated for its leaves used for medicinal
purposes. “Green Tea” is used as a popular beverage worldwide and its
ingredients are now finding medicinal benefits. It is loaded with antioxidants, thus
tea consumption may help support brain function and fat loss, help reduce the
chance of developing heart disease, and offer some protection against cancer.
“Green tea” also has small amounts of minerals that can benefit your health, it is
useful for prevention of many debilitating human diseases that include
maintenance of cardiovascular and metabolic health. Various studies suggest that
polyphenolic compounds present in green tea are associated with beneficial
effects in prevention of cardiovascular diseases, particularly of atherosclerosis and
coronary heart disease.
In addition, anti-aging, antidiabetic and many other health beneficial effects
associated with tea consumption are still studied.

Reference:
Khan N., Mukhtar H. 2013.Tea and Health: Studies in Humans. Curr Pharm Des. 19(34): 6141-6147.
A. Reading comprehension
Read the text carefully and answer the following questions
1 . What is the main idea of the text?
2. Why has the tea plant been cultivated?
3. What is the scientific name of the green tea plant? Or what is green tea based on?
4. Mention three main benefits of drinking green tea.
5. Why do you think scientists are interested in studying tea plant?
6. Does green tea have any side effects? If yes mention some of them.
7. Have you ever heard about any health organization in Algeria interested in improving the
healthy drinking nutrients?
Grammar

Exercise I : Pick up from the text nouns

Exercise II : Complete the following table
Singular Plural
……………………. studies
Loss …………………….
health effect …………………….
……………………. Properties
……………………. leaves
vortex ……………………
……………………. alveoli
information ………………………………
Data ………………………………
Exercise III. Complete the following table containing nouns from
the text

Verb / adjective / adverb Noun

reduce ………………………………………..

developing ………………………………………..

natural …………………………………………

used ………………………………………...

various ...........................................

Assumed ............................................