Teenage Smoking Didactic Unit

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1. Smoking Vocabulary

Are you familiar with the vocabulary of smoking? The links tbelow may help you learn, review and practice. (a) Interactive exercises: English Vocabulary Word List - Smoking vocabulary (21 words) Be sure to check the things you can do with the list, and then do as many as you can  (b) Printable exercise - worksheets. Vocabulary review of smoking terms Cigarette smoking worksheet Smoking Match List (see lesson plan where this worksheet comes from )

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2. Information - What do you already know about smoking?

Find the following information using a search engine and / or Wikipedia. Next, write it down the information that you have gathered on a Word document (you may want to use a Google document instead). Save your work as you make progress, and then share it online with your teacher.

Share your work with your teacher. Do so using either the New Hotmail - Windows Live (it allows you to share documents) or Google Docs. (Your yeachers as well as you need to have opened an accouny on any of these two free applications).   Click here for a New Hotmail tutorial  What is Windows Live and what you can do with it. "Work from anywhere" Store, share & colllaborate Click here for a Google Docs tutorial.

1. In what forms do people use tobacco?

2. What are the three harmful substances in cigarette smoke?

3. Which bad side effects does cigarette smoking have? Write down as many as you can.

4. What  can smoking cause?

5. In what forms do people use tobacco?

6. Write down three reasons why people (specially teenagers) begin to smoke.

7. Write down three reasons why you shouldn't smoke.

8. What steps can you take to refuse offers to use tobacco? Write down what you can do to avoid smoking if offered the opportunity.

Note: This opening activity is based on this shared presentation.

Teenage Smoking Didactic Unit