专题05 Coffee drinkers may live longer-高中英语外刊新闻精品阅读课.pptxVIP

Coffee drinkers may live longer外刊新闻精品阅读和练习Frida 1.What have you eaten and drunk today?2. Read the headline above. Have you heard this news story? If so, say what you know. If not, can you guess what it is about?WARM-UP QUESTIONS: Discuss the following questions with your partner(s). According to new research, coffee drinkers may live longer than other people - even when they take their coffee with a little sugar.Researchers at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, studied the health data of UK residents over a seven-year period. They found that moderate coffee drinkers, those who drank from 1.5 to 3.5 cups per day, were the least likely to have died during the period. What’s more, those who put up to a teaspoon of sugar in their coffee, fared better than those who did not. Researchers caution that the results are less clear for people who use artificial sweeteners. Additionally, people should keep in mind that many coffee-like drinks available these days contain much more than one teaspoon of sugar.Experts say that previous studies have also found that coffee drinkers live longer than non-drinkers, as well as other benefits to drinking coffee. Those benefits include decreased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, colon cancer, and liver cancer. However, in these types of studies, it is difficult to separate the role of coffee from other factors.People who dislike the effect of caffeine can consider drinking decaf, as it has many of the same benefits as regular coffee. ?Moderate (adj) - not small or large in quantity or degree?Fare (v) - to succeed, to get along?Caution (v) - to warn?Artificial sweetener (n) - a sugar substitute that has a sweet taste but fewer calories than sugar?Keep [sth] in mind (idiom) - to be careful to remember something?Decaf (n) - decaffeinated coffeeUSEFUL LANGUAGE VOCABULARY: Match the following vocabulary words with a description. Use a dictionary if you need to.1. Moderate