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@ READING
1 Read the blog quickly. Find a phrase/saying
for each of the five pictures.
2 <|>) 11.0 6 Read and listen to the blog.
Answer the questions.
1 What is an 'Old Wives' Tale'?
2 Why is it good to eat apples?
3 What did the researchers in New York
find out about mothers?
4 What happened to children who ate
omega-3 and omega-6?
5 What does the writer think about eating
carrots and better night vision? Old Wives’Tales are those
‘helpful’ things that your
3 Do you know any more 'Old Wives' Tales'? grandparents say that are
Tell the class.
probably not true. They are things
like, I f you watch a lot of TV,
you’ll get square eyes’, I f you eat
carrots, you’ll see well in the dark’, or I f you eat cheese
at night, you’ll have bad dreams’.
But are they nonsense or is there sometimes
a little bit of truth in them? We decided to
I@ GRAMMAR investigate more.
Let’s start with a famous one: ‘An apple a day
First conditional keeps the doctor away’. My grandma said this
all the time. Well, of course everyone knows
4 Match the sentence halves. Check your
that fruit is an important part of a healthy
answers in the blog. Then complete the rule
diet. But can one apple really make a difference? A medical study
and the table. Choose the correct words.
from 2013 says ‘yes’. It found that if people over 50 eat an apple
1 | | If you watch a lot of TV, a day, their chances of a heart attack are much smaller than
2 | | If you eat cheese at night, people who don’t.
3 | | If you eat fish oil, What about‘Gain a child, lose a tooth’?
They say that when a woman has a child,
a you'll have bad dreams.
a tooth will fall out. Researchers at the
b you'll get square eyes.
New York University College of Dentistry
c it will help to prevent heart problems, too.
studied more than 2,600 women between
the ages of 18 and 64 with one or more
RULE: Use the first conditional to talk children and guess what? They found they
about ^possile I certain events and their
had more problems with their teeth than
^present /future results.
women with no children, although they couldn’t say exactly why.
//clause Result clause My great uncle was a big believer that ‘fish
If + present simple, 6 ______ (7/) is brain food’. He ate it all the time and he
was a clever man, too. It looks like he might
7 ______ (won't) + base
be right. Fish have a lot of omega-3 and
form
omega-6 fats in their oil. Some scientists
It is possible to put the result clause first:
from Oxford studied 120 primary school
If you fall, you'll hurt yourself. OR
You'll hurt yourself if you fall. children, and they discovered that the children who ate omega-3
and omega-6 made big improvements in their schoolwork. If you
eat fish oil, it will help to prevent heart problems, too. It seems like
eating fish is a good idea.
Finally, what about those carrots? Can they really help your night
vision? I’ve eaten them all my life, but I still walk into things when
I get up in the night. Unfortunately, I can’t find anything to prove if
this is right or wrong. I’ll keep looking and I’ll let you know
as soon as I find out.
