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Date: 2015-10-07; view: 509.
STUDENT EXERCISE PILL SURVEY
AFTER READING
WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionaries / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘exercise' and ‘pill'.
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| exercise | pill |
- Share your findings with your partners.
- Make questions using the words you found.
- Ask your partner / group your questions.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
- Share your questions with other classmates / groups.
- Ask your partner / group your questions.
3. GAP FILL:In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…?
4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.
5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:
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Write five GOOD questions about exercise pills in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.
When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.
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US researchers say they have developed a pill that makes you (1) ____ without exercising. Scientists at California's Salk Institute for Biological Studies tested a new drug (2) ____ genetically engineered “marathon mice” that could run non-stop for (3) ____. They then developed a pill that could reproduce the positive effects of the running. Researcher Professor Ronald Evans said the pill helps cells (4) ____ fat quicker and at the same time boosts energy levels. The new discovery could benefit (5) ____ who do not get the recommended 40 minutes of exercise per day. Professor Evans said: "If you're (6) ____ of shape, and most of us are…you have to do some exercise. If there was a way to mimic exercise, it would make the quality of exercise [we] have much more efficient."
Fitness experts are unconvinced by the new discovery. They say there is (7) ____ substitute for real exercise and a balanced, healthy diet. However, it seems there would be enormous appeal for a pill that does (8) ____ with the need for strenuous workouts or sweating it out jogging. If the effects can be reproduced in (9) ____, it could become one of science's biggest money-spinners. It could additionally reduce a large number of diseases related (10) ____ obesity and seriously cut the number of hospital patients. Scientists also say such a medicine could be used to (11) ____ muscle-wasting diseases. The pills are (12) ____ in the experimental stage and the researchers are not working with any drug manufacturer.
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
| (a) | fitness | (b) | fit | (c) | fitted | (d) | fittest | |
| (a) | by | (b) | at | (c) | on | (d) | in | |
| (a) | hours | (b) | hour | (c) | hourly | (d) | hour-long | |
| (a) | burns | (b) | burning | (c) | burnt | (d) | burn | |
| (a) | them | (b) | these | (c) | those | (d) | this | |
| (a) | out | (b) | off | (c) | down | (d) | not | |
| (a) | non | (b) | never | (c) | not | (d) | no | |
| (a) | soon | (b) | away | (c) | for | (d) | over | |
| (a) | everyone | (b) | us | (c) | we | (d) | humans | |
| (a) | by | (b) | at | (c) | to | (d) | on | |
| (a) | treatment | (b) | treat | (c) | treating | (d) | treaty | |
| (a) | still | (b) | yet | (c) | until | (d) | up |
WRITING:
Write about fitness and exercise for 10 minutes. Correct your partner's paper.
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