ACC 21st Century Units 1 & 2

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UNITS 1 & 2
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ACTIVITY 01
For questions 1-6, read the text below.

Decide which answer (A, B C or D) best fits each gap. Each
question must have a single answer.
Wellness and Well-Being
Some people use complementary health approaches in an 1. ______ to promote

general well-being or wellness, 2. ______ than to help manage symptoms of a
health problem. For example, 2012 national 3. ______ data show that people
most often use yoga and dietary supplements for wellness, which has several
dimensions, including emotional well-being (coping effectively with life and
creating satisfying relationships) and physical well-being (recognizing the need
for physical activity, healthy foods, and sleep).
Research sponsored by NCCIH 4. ______ that people who use complementary
approaches for wellness tend to have better overall health, higher rates of
physical activity, and 5. ______ rates of obesity than those who use
complementary approaches to help manage a health problem.
More research is needed to better understand how certain complementary
health approaches can be useful in 6. ______ better self-care, improving a
personal sense of well-being, and promoting a greater commitment to a healthy
lifestyle.
1. a) chance b) effort c) fight d) struggle

2. a) instead b) prefer c) more d) rather
3. a) science b) program c) results d) survey
4. a) suggests b) inquires c) aims d) trusts
5. a) lower b) fraction c) smaller d) little
6. a) assuring b) influencing c) encouraging d) leading

ACTIVITY 02
For questions 7-12, read the text below.

Use do word given to form a word that fits in the gap in the
same line.
Benefits of School-Based Sports
High fives. School spirit. Team pride. School-based sports programs

can bring out ______________ positive reactions and behaviors in teens. 7. NOTICE
But what are the deeper benefits from these programs? What are we
losing when schools are forced to cut these programs?
The most extensive research has come in a report called

“ ______________ Between Youth Sport Participation and Selected 8. RELATE
Health Risk ______________ from 1999 to 2007” published in the Journal 9. BEHAVE
of School Health. This report analyzes many different factors and
found that many groups experienced overall benefits, with the
exception of some subgroups.
Overall, the study mentioned that advantages of sports include
Weight control, problem-solving skills, ______________, social 10. ESTEEM
competence and academic ______________. 11. ACHIEVE
On the other hand, sports can lead to reduced rates of juvenile
arrests, teen pregnancies and school dropout.
In addition to these social and emotional benefits, sports can also

bring about intangible benefits to the school and community as a
whole. “Sports also create important opportunities for students to
contribute to the school community, which may cultivate an increased
______________ to, or identification with, school and school values.” 12. COMMIT
(Taliaferro, 2010)
ACTIVITY 03
Circle seven of the words in the box.
Write one sentence using each of the words you have chosen
from which its definition can be implied.
You may change up to three words (e.g. health - unhealthy)
CRITERIA DISCLOSE VULNERABLE PURSUE
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ACTIVITY 04
For questions 13-18, read the text on the next page.

Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose
from sentences A-F the one which fits each gap.
13. 16.
14. 17.
15. 18.
consumer attitudes, Dr. Walker-Munro said. Whereas here, until
Importance of Listening in Business
now, “there hasn’t been a really big strong push from consumers
Communications
to say, ‘This is not an acceptable way of doing business.’”
A recent spate of cyberattacks have highlighted
. ( 16. ) “We’re all just kind of like, ‘Yeah, it’ll be all right, we’ll
the nation’s relatively lax approach to
sign over our information to these big companies and trust them
safeguarding personal data. But change may be
to do the right thing,’ instead of going ‘Why does the company
on the way.
need this information? Once you’re satisfied I’m me, why do you
It seems like we’re seeing a cyberattack on a major Australian need to keep my passport number, my Medicare number? If you
company every week. ( 13. ). The online wine retailer Vinomofo can’t answer that question, then get rid of it.”
announced a breach. And Medibank is contending with extortion Of course, some companies, like medical insurers, are always
threats after a cyberattack last week that saw customer data, going to need to keep sensitive data. ( 17. ). One example is the
including sensitive medical information, exposed. real estate sector, where renters can be asked to provide
We’re living in a dangerous new era, according to Clare O’Neil, the immense quantities of personal information.
cybersecurity minister, and these kinds of cyberattacks will become The government’s strong response to the Optus data breach
only more common. was promising, Dr. Walker-Munro said, as is the fact that in the
What we’ve seen in the last month shows that we’re “behind past few years, some departments, like Home Affairs, have
the eight-ball,” she said today. “( 14 )” already started thinking about data as a “national asset,” which
So how did we fall behind? And what can we do now? I talked to should be protected in the same way as we’d protect something
two experts, Brendan Walker-Munro, a senior research fellow with critical to the business economy, like an oil refinery or a power
the University of Queensland’s Law and the Future of War research station.
group, and Tony Song, a University of New South Wales law and The European Union, for example, has the “right to be
justice research fellow, to find out. forgotten,” under which consumers can instruct a company to
For the past two decades, in the post-9/11 environment, they delete their personal data if it no longer serves the purpose it
said, Australia’s legislative focus has largely been on granting law was originally collected for. ( 18. )
enforcement and intelligence agencies access to personal data. ( 15. ) The best thing that an overhaul to the law could do is change
While Australia faces the same challenges as other countries, like the culture, he added, so that legislators, companies and
regulations struggling to keep up with technological advancements, consumers all know that “privacy has to be not just ticking a box
some other jurisdictions have been quicker to respond to changing but something they need to critically think about and address.”
A. Questions of data privacy, as a result, fell to the wayside.

Under this law, if a customer moved from, say, Optus to Vodafone, she could request Optus to delete all
B. her personal data.
C. After the Optus breach — the biggest in Australian history, with the personal information of 9.8 million
customers compromised — a Woolworths subsidiary reported that 2.2 million customers’ data had been
exposed in a cyberattack.
Australians have a generally lax attitude to data privacy, he said, as an extension of our generally relaxed
D. culture
E. But there are already signs of consumers starting to challenge data-gathering practices in some industries
F. We need to really step up our game in Australia in terms of policy, in terms of citizens and in terms of
how we think about this problem.
ACTIVITY 05
Choose between the main topic of Unit 1 or Unit 2

Write an ESSAY accordingly. (130 - 180 words)

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For questions 1-6, read the text below.

Wellness and Well-Being

Some people use complementary health approaches in an 1. ______ to promote

1. a) chance b) effort c) fight d) struggle

6. a) assuring b) influencing c) encouraging d) leading

For questions 7-12, read the text below.

Benefits of School-Based Sports

High fives. School spirit. Team pride. School-based sports programs

The most extensive research has come in a report called

In addition to these social and emotional benefits, sports can also

CRITERIA DISCLOSE VULNERABLE PURSUE

FROWN ASHAMED REVELATION MISTRUST

ENHANCED SPANNED BEHALF PHYSICIAN

For questions 13-18, read the text on the next page.

A. Questions of data privacy, as a result, fell to the wayside.

Choose between the main topic of Unit 1 or Unit 2

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