国际交流英语视听说B3U7

国际交流英语视听说
Unit 7 Traditional and Modern Medicine
Think and Discuss
Think and Discuss
Questions
This Cambodian man is harvesting lotus for food and medicine.
1. What information on this page surprises you? 2. How has modern medicine improved patients’ lives? 3. What is your experience with these or other home remedies?
Red Chili Pepper Eat it when your nose is stuffed-up and you’ll breathe easily.
Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
Garlic It can kill a virus, so eat it to help prevent colds and flu.
Example Answer 2
The disadvantages of knowing which diseases you’re likely to get include having stress and worry about a disease you may or may not get.
国际交流英语视听说
Book 3
7 Unit
Traditional and Modern Medicine
国际交流英语视听说
Content
Think and Discuss Exploring the Theme Analytical Listening Sharing Your Ideas Viewing the World Engaging Further Listening
Think and Discuss
Questions
2. Which do you trust more when you’re sick—natural medicines from plants or chemical medicines?
Example Answer 1
When I’m sick, I trust natural medicines from plants more than chemical medicines prescribed by a doctor because plant medicines are milder and less dangerous.
国际交流英语视听说
Unit 7 Traditional and Modern Medicine
Exploring
the Theme
Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
Look at the photos and the graphic and read the captions. Then discuss the questions.
Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
2. How has modern medicine improved patients’ lives?
Example Answers
Modern medicine has improved patients’ lives in many ways. Antibiotics can keep people from dying from an infection. Other medicines can help keep diabetes from damaging people’s bodies. Surgery can help people with heart disease to live longer, and can sometimes remove cancer from the body.
3. What do you think the advantages or disadvantages are of knowing which diseases you are more likely to get because of your DNA?
Think and Discuss
Questions
Think and Discuss
Questions
3. What do you think the advantages or disadvantages are of knowing which diseases you are more likely to get because of your DNA?
Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
Green Tea Studies have shown it to be a cancer fighter.
Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
1. Look at the photo and read the caption. Do you think this will be an effective medicine?
Example Answer 1
Yes, I think the lotus plant will be an effective medicine because people have been using plants as medicine for thousands of years. They know which plants work well as medicine.
Think and Discuss
Questions
2. Which do you trust more when you’re sick—natural medicines from plants or chemical medicines?
Example Answer 2
When I’m sick, I trust chemical medicines prescribed by a doctor more than natural medicines from plants because doctors are very well-educated. They can give me exactly the right medicine for my illness in exactly the right dosage.
Think and Discuss
Questions
1. Look at the photo and read the caption. Do you think this will be an effective medicine?
Example Answer 2
No, I don’t think the lotus plant will be an effective medicine because plant medicines are not as strong as modern medicines from pharmaceutical companies.
Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
Ginger It’s tasty and it prevents travel sickness and other nausea.
Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
1. What information on this page surprises you?
Example Answers
I’m surprised that garlic can kill a virus, and lavender flowers are used as medicine. I’m also surprised that a high-tech artificial hand can be accurate enough to pick up a key.
Think and Discuss
Questions
3. What do you think the advantages or disadvantages are of knowing which diseases you are more likely to get because of your DNA?
1. Look at the photo and read the caption. Do you think this will be an effective medicine?
2. Which do you trust more when you’re sick—natural medicines from plants or chemical medicines?
Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
Proto 1: a U.S. government project to create a better artificial arm. It was able to give its user a sense of touch through connections to the user’s nerves and to move more like a natural arm. It was the predecessor to the Proto 2 project. Proto 1 义肢计划
Modern medical engineering has made it possible, in some cases, for a blind person to see, a deaf person to hear, and a person without a hand to pick up a key. The patient in this photo is picking up a key with the Proto 1 arm.
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Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
Night falls over lavender (薰衣草) fields in northeast Tasmania. Lavender has been used for hundreds of years as a natural remedy for a variety of health problems including colds and headaches.
Exploring the Theme
Traditional and Modern Medicine
3. What is your experience with these or other home remedies?
Example Answer 1
The advantages of knowing which diseases you’re likely to get include being able to watch for those diseases and live a lifestyle that will make those diseases less likely.