{"id":23780,"date":"2022-10-25T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=23780"},"modified":"2022-10-25T07:08:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T05:08:10","slug":"medieval-plague-shaped-human-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2022\/10\/medieval-plague-shaped-human-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Plague Shaped Human Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B2 – Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the things that helped early humans escape imminent death during the plague is their genes. This is also the same thing that may have a direct impact on our immune systems today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the audio and read the transcript about how the medieval plague may have affected human immunity today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/learningenglish.voanews.com\/a\/study-medieval-plague-may-have-shaped-human-immunity\/6798355.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. What is your reaction to what this study says?<\/li>
  2. What are your thoughts on this, \u201cThe same version of a gene can protect people from a bad infection, but and also put modern people at risk for other illnesses.\u201d?<\/li>
  3. How important was the Black Death to the evolution of the human immune system?<\/li>
  4. What do you know about the bubonic plague\/the Black Death?<\/li>
  5. How do you think the COVID-19 pandemic will affect human evolution?<\/li>
  6. What do you think about this, \u201cIn the future, more deadly pandemics will continue to shape us at the most basic level.\u201d?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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