Monday, November 16th, 2009
Welcome to our lesson !
Which one are bad/ good for our health?
Warm- up
vegetables & fruits balanced died drugs medicine stress do exercises cancer smoking drink water alcohol

Good for health:
do exerciess
vegetables & fruits
drink water
balabced died
medicine

Bad for health:
drugs
stress
cancer
alcohol
smoking
Unit 8. Life in the future
Lesson 3. Listening
Before you listen
Which of the following factors do you think might help people have a long and healthy life?
+ eating healthy food
+ laughing a lot
+ drinking a lot
+ doing exercise
+ going to bed early
+ eating a lot of meat
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Listen and repeat
incredible (adj): extremely good; impossible or very difficult to believe (tốt đẹp; ngoài mức tưởng tượng)
fatal (adj): tác hại, nguy hiểm
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 (n): nấm
predict (v): tiên đoán, dự đoán, dự báo
curable (adj): chữa được, chữa khỏi được (bệnh...)


1. Nobody can predict how long we will be able to live in the 21th century.
→ Many scientists predict that in the 21 st century people will be living into the age of 130.
2. People’s general health will improve because they eat a lot of mushrooms.
→ As our general health improves, centenarian population is mushrooming.
3. Nowadays, if people look after themselves, they can live to be 90.
→ Nowadays, average life expectancy is only about nearly 80 years.
4. Within 30 years, 80% of cancers will be curable.
5. Eternal life isn’t impossible.
While you listen
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Task 1
Task 2: Listen again and answer the questions
1.What are the factors that help people have longer life expectancy according to Dr. Davis?

2. Which factor is the most important one? Why?

3. Which will we have been able to do about AIDS in ten years’ time?
1. Eating more healthily, cutting down on things like butter, alcohol and cigarettes.
2. The development in medical science.
3. We’ll have been able to bring AIDS under control.
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.
Task 2
Homework
Find information of having a very long life.