11th form (regular) – “alternative lifestyles”

The following texts provide two good examples of alternative lifestyles. They may help you with your next test.

Green Tea for Oral Cancer Prevention?

Green tea may help guard against oral cancer, according to recent research.

For the study, researchers focused on 41 people with oral leukoplakia, a precancerous sore that develops on the tongue or the inside of the cheek in response to chronic irritation. For three months, study members took either green tea extract at one of three doses - 500 mg per meter squared of body mass (mg/m2), 750 mg/m2, or 1,000 mg/m2 - or a placebo daily. Of those taking the two highest doses of the extract, 58.8 percent had a clinical response, compared with 36.4 percent in the lowest-extract dose and 18.2 percent in the placebo group. \ The green tea extract also led to an improvement in a number of biomarkers that may play a crucial role in predicting cancer development. What's more, the green tea extract was well tolerated, although it did produce some side effects (including insomnia and nervousness) in the high-dose group.

Pumpkin Protein Fights Infection

Protein extracted from pumpkin rind could help fight off yeast infections, a new study suggests. The study focused on a number of germs, including Candida albicans (C. albicans), a type of fungus known to cause vaginal yeast infections. In lab experiments on cell cultures, scientists discovered that the pumpkin-rind protein Pr-2 hindered the growth of C. albicans without harming cells. The study's authors suggest that Pr-2 could be used in a natural medicine for treating yeast infections in humans. A condition estimated to occur in three out of four women over the course of their lifetime, vaginal yeast infection may be triggered by the use of antibiotics, oral contraceptives, or steroids. Yeast infections also often affect women who are pregnant, diabetic, or in their post-menopausal [link: http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/womenshealth/a/Menopause.htm] years. Natural remedies thought to relieve yeast infections include probiotics and tea tree oil.

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Are we all being betrayed?

Dr Rauni Kild speaks fearlessly about the swine flu scandal.

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9th form – Oral exposition

Should the students of the 9th A prepare an oral exposition on the topic areas “Friendship” or “Disabled People – Physical/mental handicaps”.

 

Notice: The exposition will take place on the 15th December. Not more than 2 minutes. Aids not required.

9th form – test 1 (answer key)

A 1.Boys and girls usually gather… Working in a group is…  2.If a person has very similar interests…closer to each other.  3.a true friend is always ready… other people’s problems.  4.he or she helps you to take decisions.      B 1.Work together for a single purpose; rejoice after achieving success.   2.Having the same interests, and having  lot of activities like studying, working, playing, talking together… 3.Trust, mutual affection, to be caring without being selfish or envious.    4. Yes, I do. A good friendship is always based on mutual trust and affection.   C 1. purpose, 2. rejoice   3. at ease.     II 1. met …   were   2. did you help…?  3. felt …  wasn’t.    B 1. arrived/was arriving…   phoned.  2.were having …  were travelling. 3. visited.   C  1. decided  2. were walking … didn’t see.  3. weren’t paying… fell.

11th form –Denmark- a worlwide shame

Look at the massacre. Is it possible for you to forgive these youngsters? Click here:

http://nequidnimis.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/dinamarca-vergonha-mundial/

11th form (reg)-Test nº1 Answer key

(Version 2)    I  I   1.1. “In the first few years…vulnerable we are to extreme weather” or “summers are getting hotter winters are getting wetter”   1.2. “if average temperatures in the UK… be unbearable and inescapable”   1.3. “By 2020, well within… hotter than 25ºC will have doubled”    1.4. “In cetral London… making a hot day in the suburbs absolutely unbearable”    1.5. “other parts of the world… much of the developing world”

II   1C-2F-3G- 4B- 5D- 6A- 7E

III. 3.1. the recent bad effects mentioned in the text are the floods, the storms and the heat waves. It mentions them having occurred in Britain in August 2004.    3.2. Smal islands will be flooded as a result of rising sea levels. as well as coastal areas. Poorer countries will suffer long-term droughts.    3.3. These predictions are really catastrophic, but, unfortunately, realistic. I hope the governments take action in order to solve this climate crisis.   3.4. They want to prove that we have reached the tipping point where we must join together and take action to keep our planet inhabitable for future generations.

IV.   transport, climate, hot, temperatures, highest, affected, summer.

II.   I    1.1. higher than   1.2. more developed than   1.3. more polluted than   1.4. more careful.       2.1.  with, 2.2. about  2.3. from  2.4. on  / (version 1: on, in, on, for)       III 3.1. have done, have been doing     3.2. had already worked/decided   3.3. haven’t taken    3.4 joined (version 1: 3.1. have tried/have been trying  3.2. had already learnt…decided.   3.3. haven’t paid   3.4. joined)

IV.  4.1. d    4.2. c      4.3. a    4.4. c      4.5. b      4.6. d         4.7. c