A New Years Resolution British English Teacher
A New Years Resolution British English Teacher
A New Years Resolution British English Teacher
A NEW
YEAR’S
RESOLUTION
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1 Warm up
2 Key words
Match the terms on the left to the definitions on the right. Then put the words in the correct sentences
below and check with your partner.
Try to answer each question below. In pairs, compare and discuss your choices. Then read the
article to discover the impact of your and your partner’s drinking/smoking habits according to the
researchers.
3. What do you think are the long-term effects of drinking and smoking too much?
1.
The New Year is just around the corner and now substances on prospective memory. To do this, we
might be a good time to make a resolution to drink recruited four groups: heavy drinkers who do not
less, or to stop smoking (or both). That is, if you don’t smoke, smokers who do not drink too much, people
have a problem with remembering, of course. who both smoke and drink too much, and a low-
2.
Drinking too much of alcohol and smoking cigarettes alcohol, non-smoking control group.
together could be having a negative effect on your 8.
Participants were tested on how they could
memory. In fact, the harm of using both of these remember six actions. For three of these, the
substances is bigger than the single use of each participant was asked to do a task at a specific time
substance. Earlier research has shown that drinking (for example: "In seven minutes, I would like you to
too much (more than 14 units* a week, or binge change the pen you are using"). For the other three
drinking six units for women and eight for men) and actions, participants were asked to complete a task at
smoking is connected to many health and memory a specific moment (for example, "When you come to
problems. a quiz question about ‘Eastenders’ (a popular TV show
3.
One part of the memory that is negatively affected is in the UK), I would like you to give me this book").
prospective memory. Prospective memory involves 9.
Our analysis of the results showed that the polydrug
planning and remembering future activities, such as group (people who both smoke and drink excessively)
remembering to meet with friends at a specific place had more problems than the excessive drinkers
or time, or remembering to take medication on time. and smokers combined. This suggests that there
4.
Too much alcohol can damage your memory. In one is something that happens that negatively impacts
study, when participants were asked to do some memory when using both of these substances.
tasks, binge drinkers remembered to do fewer than 10.
This finding is important because it highlights that
those who did not binge drink. A similar model is memory may be influenced by the combination of
seen in smokers. Daily smokers remember about excessive drinking and cigarette smoking. It is our
fewer actions, compared with those who have never hope that the findings uncovered here will help to
smoked. improve our understanding about the dangers of
5.
Drinking and smoking harm memory when used drinking and smoking to our memory, in this case
separately; when used together, they strengthen the prospective memory.
effect. Those who both drink and smoke have more 11.
If you’re thinking what your New Year’s resolution
memory issues, reduced ability to think quickly and should be this year, why not quit booze or cigarettes
greater issues with problem solving. in the New Year. You might even want to consider
6.
Also, those who are addicted to both alcohol and giving up both.
cigarettes suffer more brain damage than those who *A unit of alcohol (UK) is defined as 10ml of pure alcohol
do not smoke. These people experience a decrease in Adapted from The Conversation January 2, 2017
brain mass of the frontal part of the brain (responsible
by Anna-Marie Marshall, Colin Hamilton and Tom
for short- and long-term memory).
Heffernan
7.
Generally, people tend to drink alcohol and smoke,
so we checked the combined effect of these two
4 Checking understanding
a. people who drink too b. people who drink and c. people addicted to
much smoke a lot smoking
6 Talking point
Key
1. Warm up
2. Key words
1. a 2. e 3. d 4. f 5. c 6. b
1. damage
2. participant
3. resolution
4. addicted to
5. decrease
6. binge-drink
4. Checking understanding
1. c
2. c
3. b
4. b
5. a
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