VACCINES

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1. BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE:
a. How are vaccines made? Look for information on the web.
b. How safe is a vaccine? Do you know cases in which vaccines
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failed or had side e ects?

The vaccine is very safe. Usually the vaccines don’t have side
e ects, but the person can have a reaction in the injection site.
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c. How long does it take to make a vaccine? Do you think that

speeding up the production may be dangerous?

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 2. VIDEO TIME
a. Watch the video How do vaccines work? - Kelwalin
Dhanasarnsombut to revise some ideas about vaccines. Take
down notes on the di erent types of vaccines and who can get
them. Why is it so important that most people vaccinate?

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b. Watch the video The Side E ects of Vaccines - How High is the
Risk? and compare it to the finding in the previous activity.

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Outline the side e ects of a vaccine and order them according
to severity.
he c. Watch the video How fast can a vaccine be made? - Dan
Kwartler and explain why vaccine development is getting
faster. Choose from five to seven sentences from the video and
quote them. Then, explain the video with your own words but
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insert the chosen sentences at some point of your speech.
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and students resources to learn language through content.
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