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The Visionary
English lesson based on a TED talk and KEYNOTE Advanced
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Who is a visionary?
Do you agree with the above description of visionaries? What's your definition of a 'visionary'?
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Can you think of anyone who is or was a visionary in science?
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Watch a TED talk by Bill Gates from the year 2015. What was Gates' vision back then?
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Gates' vision in 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI
Have a look at the comments about the talk on YouTube. Which one do you like best? What is your comment?
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According to Bill Gates, a highly infectious virus is less likely to kill millions of people than wars.
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In the case of Ebola, the main problem was a system that did not work well enough.
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Gates says that the WHO is funded to...
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Tick ONE option.
look at treatment approaches
look at the diagnostics
save the day
monitor epidemics
do all the things that he has mentioned
Why didn't Ebola spread more?
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Tick TWO options.
Hard-working health professionals prevented its spread.
Ebola isn't highly contagious.
Health workers found infected people and vaccinated them.
The virus spread only in rural areas.
Because of the nature of its transmission route.
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In the next outbreak that Gates predicts, ...
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Tick the scenario predicted by Gates.
people who are infectious don't feel well enough to travel by plane
people who are infectious feel well enough to go shopping or travel
most people are so sick that they are bedridden
What was the route for transmission for the Spanish Flu in 1918 as mentioned by Gates?
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Choose ONE correct answer.
direct contact
oral (ingestion)
airborne
vector-borne (fleas)
Back in 2015, Bill Gates felt quite ___________ about our capacity to get ready for the next outbreak.
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pessimistic
optimistic
What are your predictions about the current Covid-19 pandemic?
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