Is vaccination crucial nowadays?

Is vaccination crucial nowadays?

Objectives

· To develop students’ communicative competence and provide them with the language for life.

· To develop students’ abilities to interpret and predict possible situation.

· To provide more practice on speaking, reading and writing.

Lesson plan

1. Aim: to introduce the topic and sub-topic

Students look at the pictures and try to guess the topic of the lesson and what the article is about.

  a. Have you read any fascinating reports on news websites lately? Look at the photos. What do you think we are going to discuss today?

   b. What do you think you are going to read about?

2. Aim: to read for general comprehension

Students read the text quickly and silently to get the gist.

Scan the QR code to read the article.  Read the text quickly and choose the best title.

a Morshyn phenomenon

b The famous resort

          c Morshyn hospitals

                                                                                        Answer key: a

3. Aim: to practice new vocabulary

Students complete the activities (Flashcards, Learn, Write, Spell, Test) using laptops or phones. Then they compare their results.

 Scan the QR code to practice vocabulary from the article.

     4. Aim: to consolidate new vocabulary

Students complete the exercise in their notebooks.

 Match the words with their definitions.

1 treatment             a) to make people obey a law

2 strain                   b) the particular state that something or someone is in

3 entire                   c) whole or complete, with nothing missing

4 isolation              d) a particular type of microorganism

5 expectation          e) to cure a person of an illness or injury

6 condition             f) to do or provide what is necessary or needed

7 fatality                 g) a lack of contact between persons, groups, or whole societies

8 capacity               h) the feeling that good things are going to happen in the future

9 enforce                i) a death caused by an accident or by violence

10 fulfill                 j) the amount of space a container, room etc has to hold things                                                                                      

                              or people

                                                               Answer key: 1e 2d 3c 4g 5h 6b 7i 8j 9a 10f

     5. Aim: to read for specific information

Students read the text again. They can look up any words they don’t know in the Cambridge Dictionary. Then Ss answer the questions in their own words.

Read the article again. Answer the questions.

  1 What is the situation with covid in Morshyn?

  2 How do people with coronavirus disease in Morshyn feel? Do they have severe symptoms?

  3 What do you know about the Delta variant of covid-19 so far?

  4 How different was the covid situation in Morshyn in March 2021?

  5 Why does Morshyn Mayor Ruslan Ilnytskyi consider the experiment was     successful?

       6. Aim: to do some research on the Internet, express an opinion in terms of vaccination and give a presentation

Students, in groups, collect information on the Internet and share their findings and opinions. Ss might use the questions to interview each other and prepare a presentation.

Work with your partners. Find the necessary information on the Internet. Discuss the importance of vaccination and some other interesting issues. Prepare a presentation for the class.

• What do you think about vaccination?
• How can you keep yourself safe during the pandemic?
• If you are fully vaccinated can you still get covid-19?
• Do you know how vaccines actually work?
• What are the ingredients in vaccines? What is the most important substance do they contain? 
• What vaccines are used for vaccination in Ukraine?
• What type of vaccine do you think is better and why?
• Are there many people who are happy to be fully vaccinated?
• How can we make a difference and slow the spread of the virus?

Homework

• Make a poster to advertise a vaccine.
• Write a short paragraph to summarizing your opinion about vaccination against COVID-19.

Appendix

Morshyn

In the resort town of Morshyn, Lviv region, which in the spring took part in the health ministry’s experiment on mass vaccination to develop collective immunity to COVID-19, none of the coronavirus patients require hospital treatment.

That’s according to Morshyn Mayor Ruslan Ilnytskyi who spoke with Ukrinform.

"As of today, only 22 people in Morshyn have COVID-19 (a total number of active cases as of October 26 - ed.), eight of these patients are vaccinated, but none of them are in hospital. This summer, we had no one with this disease but with the advent of the Delta strain we’re having this trend. At the same time, throughout this entire period, no patient was hospitalized. They all experience mild and moderate forms, so they are treated at home in self-isolation," Ilnytskyi said.

The mayor shared that the expectations from mass vaccination were somewhat higher: the authorities hoped that people would not get sick at all. However, the mayor adds, during the previous wave of coronavirus in March this year, there were many in Morshyn who were being hospitalized in serious condition, and also there were some fatalities.

"The experiment was successful from different perspectives because there are no hospitalized patients. And if we talk about the economic factor, because this was also our motivation when we applied to the Ministry of Health, throughout this summer and now, too, we have people spending their vacation here, sanatoriums are at full capacity. According to the requirements enforced in Ukraine, 90%-100% of staff at these sanatoriums are vaccinated, so this experiment significantly helped us get out of the economic and pandemic-related crisis. In April, we fulfilled budget targets by 50%, and now we’re seeing 86%-87%," Ilnytskyi added.

As of October 26, some 75% of the adult population in town got at least one jab.

Source: https://censor.net/en/n3295800

the Cambridge Dictionary

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Quizlet

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