Get Help to Quit Smoking

Extra Work: Getting Help to Quit Smoking (in your CD).


Video on I-tunes and the I-pod: "D.C. Smokers Get Help Quitting".

Video name on your CD: "D.C. Smokers Get Help Quitting" MPEG-4 File.

Exercise.
Watch the video and answer the questions below.

Questions about Context.
1- Mention some of the options offered to get some help to quit smoking.
2- What's the story about Gloria Albright?
3. Mention some of the risks related to smoking.
4. What does Debra Annand have to say about smoking and the treatments to quit?
5. What's Gloria's advice?

Vocabulary
Attitude. Noun.
Counseling. Noun.
Target. Verb.

Useful Phrases.
A number of times.
On my own.
Nicotine patches.
Way too many.
Will power

Migraine and its symptoms

Migraine and its Symptoms.

Audio.
Listen to what these people have to say about migraine.http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/15/health/healthguide/TE_migraine.html?ref=health
(you can also listen to the first 3 in your CD)

Exercise.
Tell us what triggers their migraines and what it is like to live with it for them.
Skip Masland:
Vickie Martin:
William Car:
Aviva Goldfarb
Tracey Makowsky:
Terri Sinnott:

Vocabulary and Terminology.

Biofeedback is a technique that involves reducing the effects of pain and stress on your body by learning how your body reacts to pain and stress. Biofeedback does this through monitoring instruments that can detect and display internal bodily function. This can give people better control over body function indicators such as blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, muscle tension, and brain waves. Biofeedback is a type of complementary and alternative medicine known as mind-body therapy.

Biofeedback for migraines may be coupled with relaxation therapy. Relaxation therapy teaches a variety of relaxation strategies for reducing tension and stress throughout the body.

Beta-adrenergic Blocking Agents
AKA Beta-Blockers
Description

This group of medicines is commonly used as a Migraine preventive treatment, they are known as beta-adrenergic blocking agents, beta-blocking agents, or, more commonly, beta-blockers. Beta-blockers are primarily used in the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension). Some beta-blockers are also used to relieve angina (chest pain) and in heart attack patients to help prevent additional heart attacks. Beta-blockers are also used to correct irregular heartbeat, as stated above, prevent Migraine, and treat tremors. They may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.

Beta-blockers work by affecting the response to some nerve impulses in certain parts of the body. As a result, they decrease the heart's need for blood and oxygen by reducing its workload. They also help the heart to beat more regularly.

Idiomatic Expressions.

For the count. In boxing, a boxer would lose the fight if he can’t get back on his feet before the referee counts to 10.

Script.
Find the script at http://englishvillemexico.blogspot.com/2010/04/scripts-lesson-17.html .

Scene from Black Swan

Scene from the Movie Black Swan.
Lesson 23.

Activity.
Watch this video and compare with the movie script found at http://englishvillemexico.blogspot.com/2010/05/scripts-lesson-23.html .



or find the video at http://www.nytimes.com/video/2010/12/02/movies/1248069395412/a-scene-from-black-swan.html

Script.
Find the script at http://englishvillemexico.blogspot.com/2010/05/scripts-lesson-23.html .

Cholera Strikes Haiti

Cholera strikes Haiti.
Lesson 17.


You can also watch the video at http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/03/31/world/americas/100000001463594/cholera-grips-haiti.html

Vocabulary.
Relief. Adjective. Military assistance to an endangered post.

Struggle. Verb. To proceed with difficulty or with great effort.
Treated. Adjective. To care for or deal with medically. “People need treated water”.
Contaminated. Adjective. Polluted.
Cluster. Verb. To collect people into a group of buildings.
Latrine. Noun. A receptacle for use as a toilet.
Deploy. Verb. To utilize or arrange for a deliberate purpose.
Outbreak. Noun. A sudden or violent increase in activity or currency
Unfounded. Adjective. Not proved.
Dehydrating. Adjective.
Overwhelm. Verb. To overcome by superior force or numbers.
Sewage. Noun. Refuse liquids or waste matter.
Pollute. Verb. To contaminate.
Surge. Verb. To rise suddenly to an excessive or abnormal value.
Slum. A densely populated usually urban area marked by crowding, dirty rundown housing, poverty, and social disorganization.
Vaccination. A preparation administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease.
Lingering. To remain existent although it shouldn’t.
Distrust. Noun. Opposite to trust.
Idiomatic Expressions.
Around the corner. Something coming soon.


Exercise.
Write a brief essay to describe what happened in Haiti after the devastating earthquake that hit the island back in 2010.

Kidney Donors

Making More Successful Kidney Transplants.
Lesson 30
Health. Disease.

Activity.
Watch the video and answer the questions.

Questions about Context.
1. Tell us how Cesar BonVentre found out about his disease.
2. How did Cesar get a donor?


Find the video at http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/02/18/health/100000001348484/blood-brothers-and-sisters.html .

Pets and Allergies

Pets and Allergies.
Lesson 15 & Lesson 17.
Exercise.
Read the following story and write a brief essay to explain what could happen if you had pets and kids.

Story.
Read the story at http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/really-pets-can-raise-a-childs-risk-of-developing-allergies/ .