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25 Global issues 02 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE EXTRAS The highlighted verbs in the article are used to describe changes and developments. Which describe: 1 changes in diet? 2 obesity and heart disease? What are the noun forms of the highlighted verbs? Example: evolve evolution Try using nouns instead of the verbs in the article. What other changes would be necessary? How would this affect the meaning? You are going to have a discussion about the way technology has changed food habits. Student A, look on p. 200. Student B, look on p. 201. a LANguAgE FOCuS 16 Changes and trends b c SPEAKINg 17 Cradle to grave The photos show an art installation at the British Museum, London. What do you think the installation is? Try to describe it from the photos. Read the description and check. 1 What kind of medicines are, and are not included in the installation? 2 What do we know about: the man’s life? the woman’s life? 3 Which eight words or expressions refer to illnesses or health problems? Which six refer to treatments? a READINg 18 b Cradle to grave by Pharmacopoeia Cradle to grave explores the approach to health in Britain today. The piece (1) consists of a lifetime supply of prescribed drugs knitted into two lengths of fabric, illustrating the medical stories of one woman and one man.  Each length (2) contains over 14,000 drugs, the estimated average prescribed to every person in Britain in their lifetime. This does not (3) include pills we might buy over the counter, which would require about 40,000 pills each.  Some of the treatments are common to both: each starts at birth with an injection of vitamin K and immunisations, and both take antibiotics and painkillers at various times. Other treatments (4) involve more specific measures.  The woman has a relatively healthy life, but suffers from arthritis and diabetes in middle age. The man has asthma and hay fever when young, but enjoys good health until his 50s. He finally stops smoking after a bad chest infection when he is 70. He is treated for high blood pressure for the last 10 years of his life and has a heart attack and dies of a stroke in his 70s. He takes as many pills in the last 10 years of his life as in the first 66. Cradle to grave also contains family photographs and other personal objects and documents. The captions, written by the owners, (5) comprise typical events in people’s lives. These show that maintaining a sense of well-being is more complex than just treating episodes of illness. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv