SESSION 10: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

SESSION 10: 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. The article talks about a 10-year-long study into cancer.
b. The study in the article is the biggest ever to look at cancer and diet.
c. Researchers studied the health of teenagers and centenarians.
d. The study concludes that being vegetarian could benefit your health.
e. The study´s findings are not yet published anywhere.
f. A researcher said it was the first big study to look at a diet-cancer link.
g. A greater number of people around the world are becoming vegetarian.
h. Strict vegetarians should not eat cheese, yoghurt or honey.


1.2 SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
1. decade ................................ a. divided
2. common ............................... b. conclusions
3. tracked ................................ c. connection
4. separated ............................. d. ten years
5. protect ................................ e. widespread
6. findings ................................ f. aware
7. link ..................................... g. followed
8. conscious .............................. h. safeguard
9. altogether ............................. i. rules out
10. excludes .............................. j. completely


1.3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):
1. A decade-long ............................... a. all animal products
2. cancer is less common ...................... b. who ate meat
3. The researchers tracked the ............... c. among vegetarians
4. compared with those ....................... d. diet and cancer
5. being vegetarian could protect ............ e. have been published
6. The findings of the research ............... f. eat eggs and fish
7. look at the link between ................... g. study
8. People are becoming more and ........... h. health of 63,550 men
9. a strict vegetarian diet that excludes .... i. people against cancer
10. Less strict vegetarians ..................... j. more health conscious


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


LOWER - STUDIES - SEPARATED - AGAINST - FOUND - INCLUDES - TRACKED - THOSE

A decade-long study in the United Kingdom has __________ that cancer is less common among vegetarians. Health experts have always thought that a vegetarian diet is healthier than one that __________ meat. This latest research is one of the biggest __________ to compare cancers in vegetarians and non-vegetarians. The researchers __________ the health of 63,550 men and women aged between 20 and 89. they __________ people into different groups - meat-eaters, fish-eaters, and vegetarians. The research team reported a "significantly __________" number of cancers among the fish-eaters and vegetarians compared with __________ who ate meat. The study suggests being vegetarian could protect people __________ cancer.

INCREASE - EXCLUDES - FINDINGS - ALTOGETHER - MAJOR - STRICT - REDUCTION - CONSCIOUS

The __________ of the research have been published in the March 2009 edition of the 'American Journal of Clinical Nutrition'. Lead researcher Professor Timothy Key said his study was the first __________ research to look at the link between diet and cancer. "It suggests there might be some __________ in cancers in vegetarians and fish-eaters and we need to look carefully at that," he said. Vegetarianism is on the __________ around the world. People are becoming more and more health __________ and are eating less meat, or cutting it out ________. Some people choose a strict vegetarian diet that __________ all animal products. This means no dairy products or honey. Less __________ vegetarians eat eggs and fish.