English Listening Practice British Council Podcast - Allergy

Have you ever wondered how Allergies has developed and the difference of allergies from the past and now? Let’s find it out in the English Listening Practice today

First of all, let’s determine what allergy is

Allergy example

Allergies, also known as allergic diseases, are a number of conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to something in the environment that usually causes little or no problem in most people. These diseases include hay fever, food allergies, atopic dermatitis, allergic asthma, and anaphylaxis

Source: wiki

Brief Description

This English Listening Practice today is an interview between Radio Interviewer and Dr. Michael Peterson, main character in this context. After this video, not only do you practice your English Listening skill, but have more information about allergy these days. Furthermore, modern habits could harm the baby’s immune system development.
Let’s find out why babies nowadays get allergies more easily than before?
Before starting this listening practice. I’d like to introduce tips to do exercise.

Tip for this listening practice

So the tip for listening practice is to do exercise at the first half of the video, then taking few minutes to check the answer. Finally, you will listen this English practice with subtitle for one more time ,so you can check the spelling and check your answer. At the end of the video, there are answers for the task.

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English Lesson

Extra task

Beside the small task in this video lesson, you should try to answer the following lesson when listening to this english listening practice

1. According to the article, are allergies increasing? And the difference between the past and now?
2. The reasons why allergies are increasing more than before?
3. Are genes main cause of the increase of allergies?

Video

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