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    The document summarizes a student research paper published in the Journal of Physics Special Topics that modeled the spread of a zombie virus and predicted the outcome of a zombie apocalypse. The students calculated that within 100 days of the initial infection, the global human population would be reduced to only 273 survivors as the virus had a 90% daily infection rate. While the research used hypothetical zombies and viruses rather than real ones, the students argued their work gave valuable practice in writing and could help prepare for real-life disasters in the future.

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    The document summarizes a student research paper published in the Journal of Physics Special Topics that modeled the spread of a zombie virus and predicted the outcome of a zombie apocalypse. The students calculated that within 100 days of the initial infection, the global human population would be reduced to only 273 survivors as the virus had a 90% daily infection rate. While the research used hypothetical zombies and viruses rather than real ones, the students argued their work gave valuable practice in writing and could help prepare for real-life disasters in the future.

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    The document summarizes a student research paper published in the Journal of Physics Special Topics that modeled the spread of a zombie virus and predicted the outcome of a zombie apocalypse. The students calculated that within 100 days of the initial infection, the global human population would be reduced to only 273 survivors as the virus had a 90% daily infection rate. While the research used hypothetical zombies and viruses rather than real ones, the students argued their work gave valuable practice in writing and could help prepare for real-life disasters in the future.

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    Do The Preparation Task First. Then Listen To The Audio and Do The Exercises

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    The document summarizes a student research paper published in the Journal of Physics Special Topics that modeled the spread of a zombie virus and predicted the outcome of a zombie apocalypse. The students calculated that within 100 days of the initial infection, the global human population would be reduced to only 273 survivors as the virus had a 90% daily infection rate. While the research used hypothetical zombies and viruses rather than real ones, the students argued their work gave valuable practice in writing and could help prepare for real-life disasters in the future.

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    Villain , Protagonist , Eerie , Suspicion , Threat.

    Listen to Mel talking about why she loves horror films and which ones she prefers.
    Before listening
    Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

    Preparation task Match the definitions (a–h) with the vocabulary (1–8)

    Vocabulary Definition

    1. …… trapped a. alone
    2. …… supplies b. dangerous, evil or illegal
    3. …… a slasher film c. showing killing and blood in detail
    4. …… tense d. a very violent film
    5. …… gory e. making you feel anxious and worried
    6. …… a hardware store f. being in a place you cannot escape
    7. …… sinister from
    8. …… on my own g. a shop that sells tools and equipment
    for the house and garden
    h. food and other things necessary for
    daily life

    Task 1

    Are the sentences true or false?


    1. Mel has liked horror films since she was a child.

    2. She finds all horror films amusing rather than frightening.

    3. One zombie film she mentions does not end well.

    4. Not all zombie films are supposed to be taken seriously.

    5. The Mist was based on a real incident in a small town in the UK.

    6. The writer wasn’t convinced by the monsters in The Mist.


    Task 2

    Put the words and phrases in order to make sentences.


    1. watching The Omen on TV me It was on my own. in the dark

    2. what are called ‘slasher films’. I like really

    3. I think The Birds. for me is the scariest one

    4. movies and I really of zombie watched I’ve loads like them.

    5. favourite my absolute horror film. Dawn of the Dead is

    6. in a shopping centre The survivors up surrounded by zombies. end

    7. was The most recent film I watched on a plane.

    8. like horror films as much as I do. it if you to you I would recommend

    The Reading
    Everyone knows that zombies only exist in horror movies. Or do they? A new article in the
    University of Leicester's 'Journal of Physics Special Topics' predicts that zombies would kill
    almost everyone on Earth in just 100 days. Students predicted there would only be 273
    survivors after three months of a zombie apocalypse. The students were not, of course, using
    real zombies found in fiction. Instead, they pretended that a deadly virus had infected someone
    and then spread around the world. They decided that one person with the virus would have a
    90 per cent chance of infecting another person every day. They calculated that at that rate, the
    human population would fall to just 273 people by day 100.

    TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).

    1. This news is about research in a new book about zombies. T/F

    2. Students say there would be 273 survivors after a 3-month zombie attack. T / F

    3. The students pretended zombies were really aliens. T/F

    4. Students decided that 100 people would get a virus. T/F

    5. Mervin Roy is the name of a university professor. T/F


    6. Students write papers for a special physics journal to be creative. T/F

    7. A professor said the creative writing takes place every year. T/F

    8. The zombie paper will not help anyone to prepare for disasters. T/F

    SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

    1. Exist
    2. predicts
    3. fiction
    4. stretched
    5. calculated
    6. explained
    7. show off
    8. weird
    9. valuable
    10. real-life

    a. described
    b. extended
    c. actual
    d. forecasts
    e. strange
    f. worked out
    g. live
    h. useful
    i. novels
    j. display

    PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

    1. zombies only exist a. rate


    2. there would only be 273 b. to prepare us
    3. a zombie c. just 273 people
    4. at that d. practice in writing
    5. the human population would fall to e. life disasters
    6. it gives students valuable f. (imaginary situations)
    7. students to apply their understanding g. in horror movies
    8. hypothetical scenarios h. of physics
    9. This could help in the future i. apocalypse
    10. real- j. survivors

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