SO Unit 17 - Health Consequences - Online Class

SO Unit 17

Health Consequences

Multiple Select

What does urbanization mean?

• the process by which more and more people leave the countryside to live in cities

• the process of becoming more like a city

Multiple Choice

Only 43% of the Earth's total surface is habitable.

How many percent of the Earth's surface is urban?

• 3%

• 13%

• 30%

Multiple Choice

In 2020, it is estimated that .... people live in urban areas.

• 7.8 billion

• 5.2 billion

• 1.2 billion

• 4.4 billion

Multiple Choice

Which country has the highest percentage of its population living in urban areas?

• Singapore

• Kuwait

• Belgium

• Qatar

• Wakanda

Multiple Choice

How many percent of the Vietnamese population live in urban areas in 2019?

• 12.21

• 36.63%

• 54.45%

• 79.97%

Poll

Do you see urbanization as a positive or negative phenomenon?

• Positive

• Negative

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What are the adjective form of these four verbs?

industrialize - centralize - urbanize - migrate

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What are the noun form of these four verbs?

industrialize - centralize - urbanize - migrate

Reading Practice - Completion

Choose no more than TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer

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URBANIZATION

Positive side

• Creativity

• Imagination

• (1)

development

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URBANIZATION

Negative side

Effects on the (2)

of urbanites

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During the past 3 decades, there was a transformation from an agriculture dependent society to a highly (3)

nation.

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More centralized cities (urbanization) ➔the figure for megacities (>500,000 citizens) has over (4)

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This increase is majorly attributed to the (5)

of villagers moving to new urban regions.

Health consequences

How urbanization affect our health

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Air pollution in urban areas leads to what problem?

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This is a condition that makes breathing difficult and trigger coughing, a whistling sound (wheezing) when you breathe out and shortness of breath.

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a disease in which the body’s ability to produce or respond to the hormone insulin is impaired, resulting in abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates and elevated levels of glucose in the blood and urine

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the condition of being very fat or overweight

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a condition in which the blood vessels have persistently raised pressure; also known as high or raised blood pressure

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a disease of, relating to, or affecting the heart and blood vessels

Reading Practice - Multiple Choice

Multiple Choice

1. According to the reading, what is air pollution?

• A. The condition in which people cannot breathe without an air filtering machine.

• B. The condition in which harmful substances force people to leave their cities.

• C. The condition in which the air is polluted only by CO2.

• D. The condition in which health-damaging substances such as CO2 and Methane exist in the air.

Multiple Choice

2. Which was not mentioned as a result of air pollution in the reading?

• A. breathing problems

• B. heart-related diseases

• C. lung cancer

• D. autism

Multiple Choice

3. What does the word 'detrimental' in the reading mean?

• A. harmful

• B. positive

• C. scare

• D. complex

Multiple Choice

4. Which is correct?

• A. The breathing problem of the brother is thought to happen due a higher level of air pollution.

• B. The asthma disease had strong impacts on the writer's brother.

• C. Due to the asthma, he could hardly look after himself for a period of time.

• D. None of the answers above are correct.

Reading Practice - YES / NO / NOT GIVEN

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5. The rise in the quantity of poor-quality meals that city residents have possibly results in plenty of diseases.

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6. Type 2 diabetes refer to the condition that the patient's body cannot generate insulin itself.

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7. People with ineffective or no insulin totally have to strictly follow different work-out schedules.

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8. Less access to places suitable for exercise due to the urbanization is one of the main culprits to blame for the increase in diabetes rate among citizens.

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9. New strategies in urban planning and managing have helped lower the public health-related problems in more regions.

Discussion

1. Do you think big cities in Vietnam have the problems mentioned in the article?

2. Which solutions have been implemented in Vietnam?

Were they effective?

Listening Practice - Completion

Listen and fill in the blanks with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS

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There are more people living in cities than in (1)

areas.

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Many people are enticed from rural areas by the (2)

of a better life.

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We need to improve living conditions for the urban poor by providing adequate (3)...... , clean water and (4).....

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One key to making cities (5)

better is good planning

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Planners need to (6)

cities to make them beneficial for all citizens.

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Cities need green transport and green (7)..... , they need to be energy (8)..... and pedestrian- (9)....., with housing and jobs to (10)..... people to come to live there.

Discussion

1. What solutions do people in the recording mention to improve the life quality of people living in cities?

2. Do you have any other solutions?