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Côte D'Ivoire - École Numérique: Unit 3: Deadly Viruses and Diseases Lesson Type: Speaking Source: Far Ahead 1ère

This document provides lesson materials for a class discussing deadly viruses and diseases. The lesson focuses on COVID-19 and Ebola. Students will practice using the impersonal passive and learn vocabulary related to pandemics. Exercises have students identify actions related to COVID-19 transmission, prevention, symptoms and contamination. Students will then give a presentation on what COVID-19 is, how it is caught and transmitted, and how to avoid it. For homework, students will prepare a speech on Ebola for an NGO campaign to raise awareness of the disease in Cote d'Ivoire.

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Côte D'Ivoire - École Numérique: Unit 3: Deadly Viruses and Diseases Lesson Type: Speaking Source: Far Ahead 1ère

This document provides lesson materials for a class discussing deadly viruses and diseases. The lesson focuses on COVID-19 and Ebola. Students will practice using the impersonal passive and learn vocabulary related to pandemics. Exercises have students identify actions related to COVID-19 transmission, prevention, symptoms and contamination. Students will then give a presentation on what COVID-19 is, how it is caught and transmitted, and how to avoid it. For homework, students will prepare a speech on Ebola for an NGO campaign to raise awareness of the disease in Cote d'Ivoire.

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CLASSE DE 1ère

ANGLAIS CÔTE D’IVOIRE – ÉCOLE NUMÉRIQUE

UNIT 3 : DEADLY VIRUSES AND DISEASES


Lesson type: Speaking
Source: Far Ahead 1ère

LEAD - IN

Picture 1 Picture 2

LEARNING CONTEXT
The Ghanaian embassy in Cote d’Ivoire is going to organise a debate on deadly viruses and
diseases. To participate in this exchange, the students of your class are discussing in order to
collect the maximum information on the topic.
LESSON CONTENT
Language Function Structures / grammar Vocabulary
Using the impersonal Covid-19 is said to be a Pandemic, disease, endemic spread,
passive. contagious sickness lockdown, sanitizer prevention, droplets,
virus, Ebola, Covid-19, inhaled

Picture interpretation

1- What do these two pictures show ?


2- What diseases can these organisms cause ?
3- In which countries can we see these diseases ?
VOCABULARY
Disease = illness, malady
Pandemic = disease that spread all over the world.
Endemic = disease that prevails in a particular region or area.
Lockdown = confinement
sanitizer = product that kills microbs.
Droplets = a very small mass of liquid
Virus = Ebola and COVID-19 are diseases caused by viruses
Inhale = to drow air into the lungs through nose or mouth.
Language function: Impersonal passive
Ex: COVID -19 is a dangerous disease
→It is said that COVID -19 is a dangerous disease
→COVID -19 is said to be a dangerous disease.

Exercise 1: What does each of the following action related to the covid-19 refer to? Write
the corresponding letter in front of each of them. Nunmber 1 is an example
T=Transmission P=Prevention S= Symptom C= Contamination

1. Stay home as much as possible ………P


2. Wash your hands very often with soap and water. ………
3. Feeling tired ………
4. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. ………
5. Cover your face with a cloth face mask in public spaces. ………
6. Droplets inhaled or land in the mouth or nose of a person nearby. ………
7. Cover your mouth and nose with your elbow or a tissue when you cough or sneeze. ……
8. You cough ……… …
9. Touching your eyes, nose and mouth. ………
10. Clean and disinfect high-touch surfaces, such as doorknobs, light switches daily. ……
11. You feel feverish …………
12. Droplets released when someone with the virus coughs, sneezes or talks. ………
13. Touch a surface with the virus on it and then touch the mouth, the nose or the eyes. ……
…
Exercise 2: What is said about the covid-19 ? Look at the sentences and answer the
question.
Example : 1-It is said that the covid -19 is not fake.
1- The covid -19 is not fake.
2- There is no official treatment for this sickness.
3- The covid -19 does not kill easily.
4- We must fear this disease.
5- We can avoid the covid -19 easily.
6- Corona has already killed thousands of people around the world.
COMMUNICATION ACTIVITY
Your English club is organising a presentation about the covid-19. You are given the floor to
give some information about this disease. In your presentation, tell the audience
- What the covid-19 is ;
- What people say about the way is caught and transmitted ;
- How it can be avoided.
HOMEWORK
As the chairperson of your English speaking club, you’re invited by an American NGO to
take part in a campaign on the recurrence of Ebola disease in Côte d’Ivoire to sensitize the
population. In your speech, you
-describe Ebola
-mention the damages it recently caused
-suggest some precautions to be taken in order to avoid it
ADDITIIONAL RESOURCES
Go to the following link and do activities 1 and 4.
https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary/health-and-going-
doctor/coronavirus-stuck-home-because-deadly-virus-reading-and-writ/123158

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