2º BACHILLERATO C

GRAMMAR and VOCABULARY CONTENTS

(3rd Term)

Unit 4 HEALTH and ILLNESS

Text 1: Overweight Pets

Text 2: Emotional healing

Text 3: The dangers of diets

TEXT / GRAMMAR / VOCABULARY
Text 1:
Overweight pets / ·  Vocabulary related to weight and health:
Obesity, fat, to weigh, heavier, overweight, ideal body weight, sedentary lifestyle, diet food, slim, exercise…
·  Compound nouns:
Home test, pet dogs, pet owners, snack food, lifespan
·  Modal verbs:
-  weighing an animal may not help…
-  there may be an emotional component…
-  all this can lead to…
-  owners should control…
-  pets must also get ….
-  Keeping pets slim can increase their lifespan…
·  Present simple used to talk about facts and truths:
-  approximately 60 per cent of pets in the US are overweight
-  pets gain weigh for many of the same reasons that people do
-  they eat too much snack food
·  First conditional:
-  if there is a layer of fat…., the animal is too fat
Text 2:
Emotional healing / ·  Vocabulary connected with health and emotions:
Sick, doctors, medicine, scientists, contagious diseases, well-being, health professionals, neurons, emotions, drowsy, exhilarated, premotor cortex, body chemistry, cardiovascular health, natural defences, ill, good humour, emotional connectivity…
·  Use of connectors:
According to, not only…also…, however, in fact, so,
as such, after all,…
·  First conditional:
-  If those around us laugh, then we copy them
-  If someone looks…, then our neurons make sure that…
-  If you find yourself feeling ill, try to surround yourself with people…
Text 3:
The dangers of diets / ·  Vocabulary related to diets:
Losing (weight), put on (weight), weight loss, miracle cures, wonder-diets, diet products, nutritional basis, high-protein diets, low carbohydrate diets,
·  Vocabulary related to health problems:
Unhealthy, coma, cholesterol, lack of glucose, hair loss, insomnia, depression…
·  Prefixes and suffixes:
Unhealthy, imbalances, tiredness, dizziness, dehydration, advisable…
·  Modal verbs:
-  many of these methods may be dangerous…
-  diets can also cause…
-  you should go to the doctor…
-  it may be enough…

Unit 5 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Text 4: The environmental costs of being online

Text 5: Greening the Sahara

TEXT / GRAMMAR / VOCABULARY
Text 4:
The environmental costs of being online / ·  Vocabulary related to the internet:
e-mails, online purchases, video-conferencing, the huge server computers of Google, data centres, computer user, web pages, virtual-reality games, Internet searches, Twitter…
·  Vocabulary related to environmental problems:
Greenhouse gases, CO2 (=carbon dioxide), electricity, energy costs, environmental cost…
·  Passive (present continuous):
-  Energy costs are being reduced…
-  Billions of web pages (are) being viewed…
Text 5:
Greening the Sahara / ·  Passive:
-  the population is expected to double by 2050
-  the desert cannot be conquered
·  Modals:
-  greening the Sahara might be Egypt’s best hope of bringing prosperity…
-  authorities should focus on eco-tourism…
-  (it) could destroy fragile wildlife habitats…
·  Vocabulary connected with agriculture:
Cauliflower, melons, to grow, to cultivate, irrigate, land, water resources, agriculture…