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45 SPEAKING 11. Discuss the questions in pairs. 1) Can you remember any medical discoveries? What are they? 2) Who made them? 3) When and where were they made? 4) What is the significance of these discoveries for science and medi- cine? 5) Do you know who received the Noble Prize in Medicine last year? What discovery did they make? VOCABULARY 12. You are going to watch a video about one medical discovery that changed the world. Before watching it, match the words in column A to the words and phrases in column B. Have you got any ideas what discovery it is about? A B 1) destroy 2) cause 3) (is not) harmful 4) make 5) (is) treated 6) (is) allergic 7) evolve 8) overprescribe 9) break a) resistance to antibiotics b) antibiotics ineffective against c) down the cell‘s structure d) antibiotics e) many types of bacteria f) for an infection with antibiotics g) damage h) to penicillin i) to our cells 13. Read the extracts from the video and fill in the gaps. a) Eventually, the cell‘s structure breaks _______ completely. b) Penicillin stimulates the release of highly reactive molecules that cause addi- tional ___________ to bacteria. c) As antibiotic usage has increased, more and more bacteria have evolved this defense, making these antibiotics _______________ against a growing number of bacterial infections.