Scientists Disobedient To Mother Nature
SCIENTISTS DISOBEDIENT TO MOTHER NATURE
Practice English with your teacher
Warm-up
Talk about these questions with your teacher.
선생님과 이야기해 보세요.
- Do you believe the traditional 9-to-5 work model is becoming obsolete?
- What would you pursue professionally if financial security were guaranteed?
Vocabulary
Listen and repeat after your teacher.
선생님을 따라 읽어보세요.
Reading
Read the passage with your teacher.
선생님과 함께 지문을 읽어보세요.
A while back researchers in the labs were working overtime on ways to extend life expectancy well past 100. If they were successful it would not be considered unusual for a person to reach his or her 170th birthday. When I read that, all I could think of was buying Christmas gifts for children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and great-great-great-grandchildren. Have mercy!
And now I read about yet another remarkable effort. Scientists have now made it possible for women who have gone through menopause to become pregnant through the implantation of donated eggs. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, four out of seven post-menopausal women who use this method become pregnant and give birth to healthy babies.Cut it out, you folks in the nation’s research centers. There is still a long list of diseases that we have no cure for. Please work on these and don’t “help” women in their late 40’s and 50’s have babies. The best break Mother Nature gives us is menopause and the freedom from pregnancy. Please, geniuses, keep your cotton-picking hands off this God-given blessing.
Dialogue Practice
Practice the dialogue with your teacher.
선생님과 대화를 연습해 보세요.
What Does It Mean?(1) life expectancy
(2) Have mercy
(3) Cut it out
(4) keep your cotton-picking hands off this God-given blessing
Korean Trap! / 한국인 실수 교정
Common mistakes Korean speakers make.
한국인이 자주 하는 실수를 알아봅시다.
'explain'은 간접목적어에 'to'가 필요합니다. 'tell me'와 달리 'explain me'는 틀린 표현입니다.
Discussion
Share your thoughts with your teacher.
선생님과 의견을 나눠보세요.
(1) What did the writer think when she read the story of scientific efforts to prolong life expectancy?
(2) How have scientists allowed women in menopause to become pregnant?
(3) What are the chances of menopausal women becoming pregnant through this scientific miracle?
(4) Does the writer think it’s good to go ahead with medical research into prolonging the child-bearing ability?
(5) What does the writer think is more important than this medical research?
(6) What does the writer think about menopause?
Extra Practice
(1) Do you think this scientific research ? extending life expectancy ? is worth continuing?
(2) Do you think the research of prolonging child-bearing age is against God’s will?
(3) What do you think are the most important areas of research in modern medicine?
(4) Talk about some diseases medicine has no cure for.
Lesson Summary / 수업 요약
Today's Topic: SCIENTISTS DISOBEDIENT TO MOTHER NATURE
Level: Middle Advanced (M.A)
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