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Health and Medical Care



 

Vivien

To promote a healthy way of life, I suppose the cliché is “You are what you eat”. I think it is. They’re always telling us in newspapers and magazines to eat low-far food, to cut down on fat. A Hungarian diet isn’t particularly good for that, as they’re used to cooking everything in lard. Now, however, they even advertise on TV to cook things in sunflower oil, although recently it was revealed that this Health Education advert was in fact sponsored by the sunflower oil producers. So, it’s very healthy to cut down on red meat. Of course, if you are a vegetarian, you don’t have to particularly worry about fat.

The most healthy diets are in places like Greece, I think, where they eat a lot of oils like olive oil, which belongs to a kind of fats which are more healthy. They eat a lot of fresh fruit and tomatoes, and suffer from less heart disease although they smoke a lot in Greece, so it’s always one step forward and three steps back.

We should eat more fibre, and that’s another thing in favour of a vegetarian diet, as if you eat no meat, then you have to get your protein in some other way, for example by eating beans, brown rice or lentils, which are also full of fibre. In England they have breakfast cereals that are full of bran, but they’re horrible really. They have no taste, but if you eat a bowl you get lots of fibre.

 

What is Vivien’s idea about a healthy way of life?

Exercise 5.

Profile: Peter Parker

Interviewer: With us in the studio this morning is Peter Parker. Good morning, Peter.

Peter: Good morning.

Interviewer: Peter Parker is an English Language teacher. He was always good at languages at school, so he decided to take his degree in French and German. When he finished his university studies, he began teaching in a secondary school in England. Two years later, however, he met someone by chance who offered him a job teaching English to foreign students during the long summer holidays. His students were adults and he enjoyed the work immensely. He soon found he was more interested in teaching his own language to foreigners than foreign languages to English schoolboys.

Since then he has specialised in this work. He has found that one of the advantages of the job is that it enables him to find work almost anywhere in the world. First he went to Africa for two years and then he spent a year in Arabia. After this he went to Greece where he has worked for the last 3 years. He hasn’t been to South America yet but he intends to go there next. He has taught men and women of all ages and of various nationalities. He has also learned to get on with all kinds of people and to adjust to different ways of life. So far he has not regretted his decision to follow this career.

 

Assignments after the text:

I

Speak about Peter Parker’s profession, i.e. when and why he chose it, if he liked his work at school, if he had any desire to change it for something more interesting, how long he has specialised in teaching foreigners, if he has ever regretted his decision to follow his career, what the advantages of his job are.

 

II

1. Do you think you can speak about yourself like Peter Parker? Say:

1) Why you decided to enter this Institute and learn foreign languages;

2) What you’ve done since you became a student?

3) If you have made good progress in French and English, if you have regretted your decision to learn English so far;

4) What subjects you have learnt and intend to learn?

5) What vacations you’ve had and intend to have?

6) What countries you have been to and intend to go to?

7) What you have learnt and done since you came to Syktyvkar and if you regret your decision to study in Syktyvkar?

 

2. How could you talk with your groupmate about your life at the Institute and advantages of knowing foreign languages?

 

Exercise 6.

 

A Visit to the Doctor

—Well, what’s the matter with you, Mr. Walker?

— You’d better ask me what is not the matter with me, doctor. I seem to be suffering from all the illnesses imaginable: insomnia, headaches, backache, indigestion, constipation and pains in the stomach. To make things still worse, I’ve caught a cold, I’ve got a sore throat and I’m constantly sneezing and coughing. To crown it all, I had an accident the other day, hurt my right shoulder, leg and knee, and nearly broke my neck. If I take a long walk, I get short of breath. In fact, I feel more dead than alive.

— I’m sorry to hear that. Anyhow, I hope things aren’t as had as you. imagine. Let me examine you. Your heart, chest and lungs seem to be all right. Now open your mouth and show me your tongue. Now breathe in deeply, through the nose... There doesn’t seem to be anything radically wrong with you, but it’s quite clear that you’re run down, and if you don’t take care of yourself, you may have a nervous breakdown and have to go to hospital. I advise you, first of all, to stop worrying. Take a long rest, have regular meals, keep to a diet of salads and fruit, and very little meat. Keep off alcohol. If possible, give up smoking, at least for a time. Have this tonic made up and take two tablespoonfuls three times a day before meals. If you do this, I can promise you full recovery within two or three months.

—And if I don’t doctor?

— Then you’d better make your will, if you haven’t yet done so.

— I see. Well, thank you, doctor. I shall have to think it over and decide which is the lesser evil: to follow your advice or prepare for a better world.

 

Assignments after the text:

I

1. Speak on the imaginary illnesses of Mr. Walker.

2. Speak in detail about the doctor’s instructions.

3. Say what you have learned about Mr. Walker’s illnesses from his complaints and the doctor’s instructions. (E.g. I think that …)

 

II

1. Mr. Walker seems to be suffering from all the illnesses imaginable. Speak of his complaints and say how long he has been suffering form this or that illness.

2. How would the dialogue sound if the doctor were interested in details and

a) interrupted Mr. Walker with questions after every complaint.

E.g. Mr. Walker: I seem to be suffering from all the illnesses imaginable…

The doctor: How long have you been suffering?

b) reacted to every complaint wishing to examine him

E.g. Let me examine you. Let me listen to your heart. Will you show me your tongue?

c) were interested in Mr. Walker’s experience as a patient.

E.g. Have you ever been ill with ….? Have you consulted the doctor since …?

3. Make up a story about Mr. Walker’s life for the last five years (his work, stress, food).

 

 

Exercise 7.

 

 




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