Добавил:
Upload Опубликованный материал нарушает ваши авторские права? Сообщите нам.
Вуз: Предмет: Файл:
Let’s Talk and Write English.doc
Скачиваний:
471
Добавлен:
13.04.2015
Размер:
17.86 Mб
Скачать

4.31. Some people live for a hundred years or even more. Many of these live

In either the Mediterranean region, or in parts of rural Japan, and

Russia. What do you think is their secret?

  1. On a piece of paper write two ideas to complete the sentence:

People who live the longest normally ...”. Your ideas should explain

why you think some people live to a very old age.

  1. Hand in your pieces of paper to the teacher. And debate the pros

and cons of what you have just written. Share any stories of people who

lived long lives.

c) Answer the questions below.

1. Do you think you will live until a ripe old age? Why or why not?

2. What do you think about getting old?

3. What is the average age of people in your country? Can you explain why?

4. What are the aspects of being old?

5. What can old people do to pass time?

6. Are you afraid of being old? What are you afraid of?

7. What do you expect to feel like when you are old? What will you do? How do you see yourself when old?

4.32. Read the following citations about health and doctors. Comment on each. Which one do you like best? Why? Share your opinion with class.

Citations about health and doctors:

1. [Health is] the first of all liberties. (Henry F. Amiel)

2. [Health is] a man’s own observation (of) what he finds good and what he finds hurt of. (Francis Bacon)

3. [Health is] the absence of disease, and … of all those kinds of pain which are among the symptoms of disease. (Jeremy Bentham)

4. [Health is] not a condition of matter, but of mind. (Mary Baker Eddy)

5. [Health is] the first wealth. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

6. [Health is] the ground-work for all happiness. (Leigh Hunt)

7. To wish to be healthy is a part of being healthy. (Seneca)

8. [Health is] the one condition taken for granted by those who have it. (Anonymous)

9. [A doctor] is one upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. (Ambrose Bierce)

10. [Doctors are] nature, time, and patience. (Henry G. Bohn)

11. [Doctors are] men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. (Voltaire)

12. [Medicine is] nothing more that the substitute of exercise or temperance. (Joseph Addison)

13. They [doctors] do not heal, but only relieve suffering temporarily, exchanging one disease for another. (Mary Baker Eddy)

14. [Medicine is] a good laugh and a long sleep. (Irish proverb)

15. [Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. (Napoleon)

16. [Medicine] consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. (Voltaire)

17. [Medicine is] the knowledge of the loves and desires of the body, and how to satisfy them. (Plato)

WRITING

4.33. Pick up any citation from the previous activity and write a 350-word essay using the citation as the title for the essay.

Соседние файлы в предмете [НЕСОРТИРОВАННОЕ]