Vaccines

What's the purpose of this infographic? What fears about vaccines does it reveal? Does it look convincing?

1. What do the people in the video do?
2. How many types of coronavirus are mentioned?
3. How does the Oxford vaccine work?
4. Have there been any side effects?
5. On whom has this vaccine been tested?
6. How many doses do you need?
7. How long will the vaccine protect you?
8. Why the vaccine was produced so quickly?

Match two parts of a collocation:

develop induce fight carry alert give / make do raise cut

the corners a vaccine antibodies infection genetic instructions an immune response the immune system clinical trials the funding

Now use them in sentences:

1. We haven't ________ any _______ on the quality.
2. In the past we've ________ against other viruses.
3. The coronavirus vaccine that we've developed works by ________ and T-cells.
4. Antibodies and T-cells are both important in _________.
5. This vaccine ________ in it _______ to make the protein which is normally found on the surface of the SARS coronavirus protein.
6. We know when we ___________ of the MERS vaccine a year after vaccination people still had strong immune responses.
7. One of the reasons why the vaccine was produced so quickly was we've been able to ________ quickly.
8. We use another virus to carry that gene into the body. And that __________ to make a strong immune response to the spike protein.

• What do you think about volunteering for a vaccine trial?
• What contributes to a vaccine being safe and efficient?
• What do you think of the Oxford Vaccine?
• What other vaccines against COVID-19 have you heard of?

Word builder

Change the words in brackets to the right form:

1. They said I was ... (eligible) to take part in the trial because I am too young.
2. In ... (develop) countries they will ...(vaccine) people later than in Europe and the USA.
3. Because of the ... (expose) to the virus many medical workers get infected.
4. Doctor Jenner's experiment on an eight-year-old boy was ... (precede), as no one had ever done it before.
5. Do you know that a disease can be ... (symptom) as you can carry a virus but still feel OK?
6. Medical advancement has made human life ... (expect) longer.
7. You may not be an altruist but you can still participate in a medical ... (try) for money.

Predictions for 2021:

The value of the dollar is unlikely to stay stable.

The US federal debt will probably rise.

Healthcare is sure to become more expensive. 1

Extreme weather could threaten the financial system.

US citizens probably won't stop wearing facial masks.

It's very likely that many US citizens will be vaccinated.

Their recovery will certainly depend on the distribution of vaccine.

Put the sentences in order from most probable to least probable.

Do probably, definitely, certainly come before or after will?

Do probably, definitely, certainly come before or after won't?

Make your own predictions about the following:

• profits made by pharmaceutical companies
• medical research on viruses
• the pandemic growth in Russia
• the anti-vaxxers' protests
• the popularity of Russian vaccines
• the prices on vaccination
• free vaccination
• the average life expectancy
• vaccination in third-world countries
• making vaccination compulsory for everyone

Write a news report about the Oxford Vaccine.