Tasks for the article. Ex. 1. CHAT: talk in pairs or groups about cigarettes / cigars / smoking / Marlboro / Tobacco advertising /

Ex.1. CHAT: Talk in pairs or groups about cigarettes / cigars / smoking / Marlboro / tobacco advertising / …

Ex.2. CIGARETTE BRAINSTORM: Spend one minute writing down all the words you associate with the word ‘cigarette'. Share your words with your partner / group and talk about them.

Ex.3. DEBATES: Students face each other in pairs and engage in the following debates:

a. Smoking should not be banned in public places vs. It should.

a. Smokers have rights vs. They don’t.

b. Passive smoking doesn’t kill people vs. It does.

c. Smoking doesn’t kill you; vs. It does.

d. You can’t ban smoking in pubs and bars vs. You can.

e. This treaty will not work. vs. It will.

f. Smoking will completely disappear one day. vs. It won’t.

g. This treaty isn’t fair on smokers. vs. Tough.

Ex.4. ' FILTHY' HABIT DISCUSSION: Talk about other ‘filthy’ / bad / unsociable / unhealthy habits. Compare the following with smoking:

a. drinking (alcohol)

a. spitting in the street

b. graffiti

c. showing gum as you chew it

d. peeing (urinating) in the street

e. littering

f. using a loud Walkman on the train

g. wearing strong perfume in a crowded area

h. talking loudly on a mobile phone

i. using bad language

Ex.5. WRITING: SMOKERS I KNOW: Write down the names of three smokers you know. Tell each other about these smokers.

Ex.6. WORD SEARCH: Students look in their dictionaries / computer to find collocations, other meanings, information, synonyms … of the words ‘anti’ and ‘tobacco’.

Ex.7. TRUE / FALSE: Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).

a. Every country in the world has signed up to an anti-tobacco treaty. T / F

b. The United States of America has signed up to an anti-tobacco treaty. T / F

c. The treaty means it will become law in the countries that ratify it. T / F

d. The treaty outlines strict controls on smoking in public places. T / F

e. Adults will be persuaded to kick the habit. T / F

f. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths in the world.. T / F

g. Fifty million people a year die because of smoking. T / F

h. The World Health Organization is confident that this treaty is going to save lives.

T / F

Ex.8. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

(a)	treaty	quit
(b)	ratify	harness
(c)	overall	talked out of
(d)	legally binding	rubber stamp
(e)	regulations	millstone
(f)	kick the habit	controls
(g)	dissuaded	agreement
(h)	preventable	stoppable
(i)	curb	general
(j)	burden	the law

Ex.9. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases based on the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):

(a)	went into	effectiveness
(b)	The US and China are still	for five million deaths a year
(c)	raises	yet to ratify it
(d)	overall	habit
(e)	legally	deaths
(f)	kick the	to do so
(g)	smoking accounts	effect yesterday
(h)	preventable	moment
(i)	It is an historical	binding
(j)	it is going to continue	fears

Ex.10. GAP-FILL: Fill in the gaps in the text using the words on the right.