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31st January 2016
1.
Part 1 – small talking (4:00 – 4:20)
Please share your current life with your group members. Please talk free.
2.
Topic discussionⅠ (4:20 – 4:50)
Free discussion. Please read the article.
Socioeconomic factors contribute to regional disparities
in longevity
A team of researchers led by Professor Kim
Jong-in from Wonkwang University analyzed life expectancy data from
1-hundred-14 districts nationwide, with the exception of the country's seven
major metropolitan cities.
After comparing the data by Statistics Korea,
the team found that 16 people in a thousand who were 65 years old in 1975 lived
to be one-hundred in 2010.
By gender, 2.1 percent of women celebrated
their 100th birthday that year, compared to 0.9 percent of men.
The area with the longest life expectancy was
the city of Uijeongbu in Gyeonggi-do province, which had 115 centenarians out
of 1-thousand people.
What was noticeable was that the areas with the
most centenarians were generally located near the capital of Seoul, including
Bucheon, Seongnam, Anyang, Goyang and Suwon.
And of the top ten areas, nine were in close
proximity to the capital city.
Some of the factors that contributed to the
regional disparity included household income, size of the economically active
population and level of urbanization.
Professor Kim also noted that factors like
infrastructure, which can help determine how fast a district can respond to
disease outbreaks, play a big role in helping residents live longer.
The expert said the government should come up
with measures to narrow the socioeconomic gap between regions by strengthening
infrastructure investment for areas in need.
The study was featured in the latest edition of
the International Journal of Aging and Human Development.
Questions
1.
What do you think
dominant factor which make long life?
2.
How much do you want
live and why?
4:50 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Breaking~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~5:00
3.
English in life (5:00 – 5:30)
There's method to my madness
= There's method in my madness
You are doing
something that looks strange but you have a plan and really, you are doing
something very sensible
Ex)
A: What are you doing
putting all the books on the floor?
B: There's method to
my madness. I'm taking a photo of the books I'm putting away. The photos will
help me locate the books more easily.
A: Oh, that's clever
It's a bitter pill to swallow
it's a situation that
is unpleasant and difficult to accept
Ex) My friend has booked the same flights as me for half the
price – it's a bitter pill to swallow!
4.
Part 4 – Picture speaking (5:30 – 6:00)
①
Pick up one picture
card and select your partner.
②
Explain your idea,
feeling, experience what you have when you see the card to your partner.
③
5 minute later, you
must swap your card with your partner and go to another partner.
④
Repeat your talking
with your swapped card