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Obama Declares H1N1 National EmergencyPresident Obama has declared H1N1 influenza a national emergency in the USA. He has given doctors and medical facilities more resources to deal with the pandemic. The autumn weather has increased the number of flu cases reported. Scientists have warned all year that the cooler weather could see a sharp rise in H1N1. Medical centers and hospitals are prepared for a much busier than usual flu season. Reports are that flu-like illnesses are already much higher than the usual seasonal peak. Since August the 30th, 8,200 people have contracted H1N1 in the United States and 411 people have died. This brings the total number of hospitalizations in the US this year to 20,000, with over 1,000 deaths.
The H1N1 pandemic continues to spread across the world. It has not reached the levels people feared back in April when it first broke out. Then, experts predicted it could be one of the largest outbreaks in centuries. Fears increased when schools started closing and people started dying. However, the predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths did not happen. Even though, there has been a huge effort by laboratories to find a vaccine for H1N1. Governments around the world have created awareness campaigns on how to prevent the spread of the disease and have stocked up on millions of doses of H1N1 vaccines. Some countries have started an immunization programme. The WHO warns we still need to be careful.
WARM-UPS1. H1N1 INFLUENZA: Walk around the class and talk to other students about H1N1. Change partners often. Sit with your first partner(s) and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. NATIONAL EMERGENCIES: What should you do in a national emergency? Complete this table with your partner(s) Change partners and share what you heard.
4. PANDEMIC: Students A strongly believe the world cannot survive a serious pandemic; Students B strongly believe the opposite. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 5. ILLNESSES: Rank these illnesses and complaints. Put the one you like least at the top. Share your rankings with your partner. Change partners and share your rankings again.
6. EMERGENCY: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word ‘emergency’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. BEFORE READING / LISTENING1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.
3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)
WHILE READING / LISTENINGGAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.
LISTENING Listen and fill in the gapsPresident Obama _________________ influenza a national emergency in the USA. He has given doctors and medical facilities more _________________ with the pandemic. The autumn weather has increased the number of flu cases reported. Scientists have warned all year that the cooler weather could _________________ H1N1. Medical centers and hospitals are prepared for a much busier than usual flu season. Reports are that _________________ are already much higher than the _________________. Since August the 30th, 8,200 people have contracted H1N1 in the United States and 411 people have died. _________________ number of hospitalizations in the US this year to 20,000, with over 1,000 deaths. The H1N1 pandemic continues _________________ the world. It has not reached the levels people feared back in April when it first broke out. Then, experts predicted it could _________________ largest outbreaks in centuries. Fears increased when schools started closing and people started dying. However, the predicted hundreds of thousands _________________ happen. Even though, there has been _________________ laboratories to find a vaccine for H1N1. Governments around the world have created awareness campaigns on how to prevent _________________ disease and have _________________ millions of doses of H1N1 vaccines. Some countries have started an immunization programme. The WHO warns we still need to be careful. AFTER READING / LISTENING1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘national’ and ‘emergency’.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
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:
STUDENT H1N1 INFLUENZA SURVEYWrite five GOOD questions about H1N1 influenza 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.
H1N1 INFLUENZA DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
LANGUAGE MULTIPLE CHOICEPresident Obama has declared H1N1 influenza a national emergency in the USA. He has given doctors and medical (1) ____ more resources to (2) ____ with the pandemic. The autumn weather has increased the number of flu cases reported. Scientists have (3) ____ all year that the cooler weather could see a sharp rise in H1N1. Medical centers and hospitals are prepared for a much busier than usual flu season. Reports are that flu-(4) ____ illnesses are already much higher than the usual (5) ____ peak. Since August the 30th, 8,200 people have contracted H1N1 in the United States and 411 people have died. This (6) ____ the total number of hospitalizations in the US this year to 20,000, with over 1,000 deaths. The H1N1 pandemic (7) ____ to spread across the world. It has not reached the levels people feared back in April when it first broke (8) ____. Then, experts predicted it could be one of the largest outbreaks in centuries. Fears increased when schools started closing and people started (9) ____. However, the predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths did not happen. Even though, there has been a huge effort by laboratories to find a vaccine (10) ____ H1N1. Governments around the world have created awareness campaigns on how to prevent the spread of the disease and have stocked up (11) ____ millions of doses of H1N1 vaccines. Some countries have started an immunization programme. The WHO (12) ____ we still need to be careful. Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
WRITINGWrite about H1N1 influenza for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about H1N1 influenza. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson. 3. H1N1 INFLUENZA: Make a poster about H1N1 influenza. Show what you should do to avoid catching it. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 4. PANDEMIC: Write a magazine article about how a virus has spread around the world. Include imaginary interviews with a virus expert and someone who is very afraid. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s). 5. LETTER: Write a letter to the WHO. Ask them three questions about H1N1 influenza. Give them three suggestions on how they can tell people more about H1N1. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions. ANSWERSTRUE / FALSE:
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
GAP FILL: Obama declares H1N1 national emergencyPresident Obama has declared H1N1 influenza a national emergency in the USA. He has given doctors and medical facilities more resources to deal with the pandemic. The autumn weather has increased the number of flu cases reported. Scientists have warned all year that the cooler weather could see a sharp rise in H1N1. Medical centers and hospitals are prepared for a much busier than usual flu season. Reports are that flu-like illnesses are already much higher than the usual seasonal peak. Since August the 30th, 8,200 people have contracted H1N1 in the United States and 411 people have died. This brings the total number of hospitalizations in the US this year to 20,000, with over 1,000 deaths. The H1N1 pandemic continues to spread across the world. It has not reached the levels people feared back in April when it first broke out. Then, experts predicted it could be one of the largest outbreaks in centuries. Fears increased when schools started closing and people started dying. However, the predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths did not happen. Even though, there has been a huge effort by laboratories to find a vaccine for H1N1. Governments around the world have created awareness campaigns on how to prevent the spread of the disease and have stocked up on millions of doses of H1N1 vaccines. Some countries have started an immunization programme. The WHO warns we still need to be careful. LANGUAGE WORK
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