SESSION 3: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

SESSION 3: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

NOTE: IN ORDER TO WORK WITH THE TEXT, UNDERSTAND AND PREPARE IT BETTER I RECOMMEND THESE EXERCISES.

THERE WILL BE TWO TYPES OF EXERCISES:

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT: THESE ARE EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE READING COMPREHENSION, WORKING WITH VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS.
2. EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION: EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE PREPARATION FOR THE DISCUSSION.

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

1.1 TRUE/FALSE: Look at the article and guess whether these sentences are True (T) or False (F):
a. A Vatican official hit a member of the Nobel Prize committee.
b. The official said IVF is not in line with the way Christians should live.
c. The official said an advantage of IVF was women could hire babies.
d. The Pope believes IVF isn’t good because it’s unnatural.
e. IVF almost always takes place inside a woman’s body.
f. Babies born via IVF are created inside test tubes.
g. IVF accounts for around 10% of all babies born in the world.
h. The world’s first “test-tube baby” is still alive.

1.2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
1. officials ................. a. unintelligible
2. pioneer ................. b. by means of
3. procreation ............ c. method
4. incomprehensible ..... d. representatives
5. abandoned ............. e. hitting
6. process ................. f. dumped
7. infertile ................ g. innovator
8. afflicting ............... h. merits
9. via ...................... i. reproduction
10. deserves .............. j. sterile


1.3 PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from this article (sometimes more than one option is possible):
1. the awarding of ....................... a. via IVF
2. the pioneer of in- ..................... b. teaching on procreation
3. went against all Christian ............ c. he deserves
4. probably end up ....................... d. human egg cells
5. Pope Benedict XVI believes IVF ..... e. the Nobel Prize
6. the process of fertilizing ............. f. of infertile couples
7. changed the lives of millions ........ g. being abandoned
8. afflicting a large proportion ......... h. vitro fertilization
9. The first baby born ................... i. is morally wrong
10. given the recognition ............... j. of humanity


1.4 GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text:

PROBABLY - PLACE - UNION - AWARDING - FROZEN - PIONEER - DYING - AGENCY

Vatican officials have hit out at the ____________ of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to the ____________ of in-vitro fertilization, Dr Robert Edwards. They said the award to the British researcher was "completely out of ____________" and went against all Christian teaching on procreation. Spokesman Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula told the ANSA news ____________ that IVF has led to “incomprehensible situations like children born from grandmothers and mothers 'for hire'”. He expressed his horror at "the great number of ____________ embryos around the world, which at best are waiting to be transferred to wombs but will most ____________ end up being abandoned or ____________”. The current Pope Benedict XVI believes IVF is morally wrong because it replaced the natural sexual ____________ between husband and wife.

LIVES - TREAT - DESERVES - PROCESS - JOY - PROPORTION - TUBE - VIA

In-vitro fertilization is the ____________ of fertilizing human egg cells by sperm outside a woman's womb. It created the world’s first “test-____________ baby” in 1978 and has since created four million babies. IVF has changed the ____________ of millions of infertile couples who could not have children. The Nobel Prize committee said Professor Edwards' pioneering work had brought "____________ to infertile people all over the world". They added: "His achievements have made it possible to ____________ infertility, a medical condition afflicting a large ____________ of humanity, including more than 10% of all couples worldwide.” The first baby born ____________ IVF, Louise Brown, 32, said the award was "fantastic news". She told reporters she was “so glad that one of the pioneers of IVF has been given the recognition he ____________”.