1. Listen to the conversation and answer the questions:
What are Sally and Peter discussing? What does Sally suggest? Does Peter feel like seeing “Star Wars”? What idea does Peter suggest? Does Sally like it? What do they agree upon?
II. Listen to the conversation again. Imitate the phrases expressing suggestions and replies to suggestions
III. Find in the text appropriate English phrases for the following
Что ты предлагаешь? Как на счет тогоб чтобы сходить посмотреть фильм «Война миров»? Говорят, что это интересный фильм. Я не возражаю. Давай так и сделаем. Я бы предпочла сходить куда-нибудь еще. Это было бы прекрасно. Почему бы не зайти к Бобу и Сью по пути домой? Не хочешь ли ты пойти пообедать? Хорошая мысль (идея). Мы могли бы, я полагаю. У него новоселье. Мы могли бы сходить в тот великолепный ресторан в Челси.
IV. Read the conversation. Paraphrase the conversational formulas expressing suggestions and replies to suggestions.
V. Role-play the conversation.
Самостоятельная
работа студентов:
1. Write an essay. Choose the theme.
“The one-child family phenomenon.”
“The problem of family relations”.
2. Prepare a report.
“The ideal couple among the celebrities.”
Make a survey
“The birth-rate for last 5 years.”
UNIT2
Theme: Health Care
Text: Medicine and Health care. Grammar: The Subjunctive Mood. Vocabulary: Health and Health Care. Plastic Surgery. Focus: Who Cares about AIDS? Listening: The Great Plague 1665. Conversation practice: Likes, dislikes, preferences СРС: Writing a report on theme: “Diseases” |
Практические цели: ознакомление с лексическим материалом по теме «The sphere of social relations», введение грамматической темы «The Subjunctive Mood.», самостоятельная работа студентов.
Exercise1: What do you know about Medical Organizations of your country?
Exercise2: Read and translate the text
Text Medicine and Health Care
As in physics and chemistry, Americans have dominated the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine since World War II. The National Institute of Health, the focal point for biomedical research in the United States, has played a key role in this achievement. Consisting of 24 separate institutes, the NIH occupies 75 buildings in Bethesda, Maryland.
The goal of NIH research is knowledge that helps prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability – everything from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. At any given time, grants from the NIH support the research of about 35,000 principal investigators, working in every U.S. state and several foreign countries.
NIH research has helped make possible numerous medical achievements. For example, mortality from heart disease, the number-one killer in the United States, dropped 41 percent between 1971 and 1991. The death rate for strokes decreased by 59 percent during the same period. Between 1991 and 1995, the cancer death rate fell by nearly 3 percent, the first sustained decline since in the 1930s. And today more than 70 percent of children who get cancer are cured.
With the help of the NIH molecular genetics and genomics research have revolutionized biomedical science. In the 1980s and 1990s, researchers performed the first trial of gene therapy in humans and are now able to locate, identify, and describe the function of many genes in the human genome. Scientists predict that this new knowledge will lead to genetic tests for susceptibility to diseases such as breast cancers and to the eventual development of preventing drug treatments for persons in families known to be at risk.
Research conducted by universities, hospitals and corporations also contributes to improvement in diagnosis and treatment of disease. NIH funded the basic research on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), for example, but many of the drugs used to treat the disease have emerged from the laboratories of the American pharmaceutical industry, those drugs are being tested in research centre across the country.
One type of drug that has shown promise in treating the AIDS virus is the protease inhibitors. After several years of laboratory testing, protease inhibitors were first given to patients in the United States in1994. One of the first tests (on a group of 20 volunteers) showed that only did the drug make the amount of virus in the patients’ blood almost disappear, but that their immune systems rebounded faster than anyone had thought possible.
Emphasis on prevention
While the American medical community has been making strides in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, the American public also has become more aware of the relationship between disease and personal behavior. Since the U.S. surgeon general first warned Americans about the dangers of smoking in 1964, the percentage of Americans who smoke has declined from almost 50 percent to approximately 25 percent. Smoking is no longer permitted in most public buildings or on trains, buses, and airplanes traveling within the United States and most American restaurants are divided into areas where smoking is permitted and those where it is not. Studies have linked a significant drop in the rate of lung cancer to a nationwide decline in cigarette smoking.
The federal government also encourages Americans to exercise regularly and to eat healthful diets, including large quantities of fruits and vegetables. More than 40 percent of Americans today exercise or play a sport as part of their regular routine.
Donna E.Shalala, secretary of health and human services in the Clinton administration, frequently speaks out in support of scientific research and preventive medicine. Addressing a conference of medical and public health professionals in 1996 she said, “We must continue to unlock the incremental mysteries in basic science that culminate in blockbuster discoveries over time. But, we must cast our net wider than that. It must encompass behavioral research, occupational research, and environmental research – all of which hold the potential to prevent disease – and help Americans live healthier lives.”