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L I F E
L A u G H
H E A L T H Y
C E N T U R Y
D R I N K
E X P E N S I V E
1. Noun of to live
2. When people are happy, they
3. To be.people often do morning exercise regularly.
4. One hundred year is called a
5. Lets go to the canteen for a
6. The antonym with cheap is.

Period: 46
Unit 8: LIFE IN THE FUTURE
Listening

I. 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

Listen and repeat:
+ incredible [in'kredbl] (a)
+ fatal ['feitl] (a)

+ centenarian[,senti'nerin] (a)

+ eradicated [i'rổdikeitd] (a)

+ life expectancy ( n):
+ eternal life (n) :
= Không thể tin được
= Tai hại, làm chết
= Người sống đến trăm tuổi
= Bị tiêu huỷ, thủ tiêu
= Tuổi thọ mong muốn
= Cuộc sống vĩnh cửu

II. While you listen:
Task 1: Decide whether the following statements are true (T)
or false (F).
1. Nobody can predict how long we will be able to live in the 21th
century.
2. Peoples general health will improve because they eat
a lot of mushroom.
3. Nowadays, if people look after themselves, they can live
to be 90.
4. Within 30 years, 80 % of cancers will be curable.
5. Eternal life isnt impossible.
I guess
In fact

F
F
T
T
F

Task 2: a. Listen again and fill in the blanks with missing words.
Interviewer: Many scientists predict that in the 21th century
people will be living into the.(1)age of 130. What do you
think about this?
Dr. Davis: Well, I quite agree with them. They have (2). to be
confident about that?
Interviewer: What are the reasons?
Dr Davis: In fact, their prediction is based on research and on
the fact that the (3) population is mushroom as our general
health improves.
Interviewer: Can you explain this further?
Dr Davis: A century ago average life (4).in Europe was 45.
Today, providing we look after ourselves, eat more healthily,
cut down things like butter, alcohol and cigarettes, we can add
nearly (5).years to that figure.
1. incredible
2. reasons
4. expectancy
5. thirty- five
3. centenarian

b. Listen again & choose the correct answers (A, B, or C)
1. What are the factors that help people have long longer life
expectancy according to Dr. Davis?
A. Eating more healthily, cutting down on things like butter,
alcohol, and cigarettes.
B. Eating more healthily, cutting down on things like
sugar, alcohol, and cigarettes.
C. Eating more healthily, cutting down on things like
butter, alcohol, and coffee.
A

2. Which factor is the most importance one? Why?
A. The development in population. Because nobody dies from
old age, just from diseases that affects people when they get
older.
B. The development in medical science. Because nobody dies
from old age, just from diseases that affects people when they
get older.
C. The development in medicine science. Because a lot of
people die from old age, just from diseases that affects people
when they get older.
B

3.What will we have been able to do about AIDS in ten years
time?
A. In ten years time AIDS will not also be brought under
control.
B. Well have been able to bring AIDS under control.
C. Well have been able to bring AIDS over control.
B

III. After you listen: Discuss the advantages & disadvantages of
having a very long life.
Advantages
Disadvantages
+ do many things they want
to do/ enjoy life more.
+ see their children &
grandchildren grow up.
+ help their children &
grandchildren.
+ children & grandchildren
are happy with them.
+ too weak to do things
and often ill.
+ feel lonely when
grandchildren have
grown up and busy with
their own lives, and
friends are dead.

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