In the town

My native town is situated in the Kharkiv Region. It is an hour ride from Kharkiv. Some people can’t imagine their lives without theatres, multistoried buildings and broad avenues — all that’s typical of every big industrial city. There are no theatres, multistoried buildings and broad avenues in my town, but still I do like it because I was born here, my parents live here and I’ve spent almost all my life here. You may think that the life in a provincial town is rather dull and far from being interesting. Perhaps, you are right. But I’ll try to prove that this life has got quite a lot of advantages. Every morning you get up and breathe in fresh air full of various scents depending on a season: in summer it is a smell of fresh grass and flowers, in winter it is a smell of frost and snow which covers everything with its white thick duvet. My native town becomes especially beautiful in early spring when there is a great many rose-shrubs in flowerbeds and everything is in blossom. This time I like to tramp down the streets lined with chestnuts, mountain-ashes and limes. Those who want to have some entertainment can go to the recreation park that is famous for its carrousels. Those who prefer dancing may go to a disco. It’s rather popular with young people especially teenagers. It’s a pity we have no concert-halls or theatres but you may go to the cinema and see a film there. We have a lot of opportunities to go in for sports because there are two big stadiums in the town. I quite forgot to tell you that there are some good cafes in my town, you can call at any of them. I am sure you’ll like it there if you want to have some ice-cream or coffee or just have a talk with your friends.

Questions:

1. Where is your native town situated?

2. Is your town full of parks and gardens?

3. When is your town especially beautiful?

4. How do you spend your free time in your town?

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At the Doctor’s (1)

Of all things people probably hate diseases most. Suppose, you plan to finish your work tomorrow. It’s very important and urgent. Besides, you have given your word the work will be ended in time—and al?s.

But in the morning you find out suddenly that you can’t get up as usual because you are ill, you have to call a doctor and he examines you and diagnoses the illness (or desease).

When we have a headache, a stomach ache, a sore throat, a cold, or a pain in some part of the body, we call the doctor. He takes our temperature and our pulse. He examines our heart, our lungs, our stomach or the part where we have a pain (the part of the body which hurts-us) and tells us what is the matter with us. He says: You have a slight temperature or you have the flu, you have caught a cold or you have heart desease.The doctor prescribes medicine and gives us a prescription, which we take to the chemist, who makes up the medicine. The doctor says “l shall prescribe some medicine. You must take the prescription to the chemist and he will make up the medicine for you. Take the medicine twice (or three times) a day, before (or after) meals.”If you follow the doctor’s orders you get better; if you disobey the doctor you may get worse, and even die. We must obey the doctor (we must follow the doctor orders), if we want to get better. If we have a temperature we must stay in bed and take the medicine he prescribes. If we cannot get better at home we must go to hospital.If you need an operation (for example if you have appendicitis), a surgeon performs the operation on you. If we are too ill to walk we go to hospital in the ambulance. After our illness we can go to a sanatorium until we are strong again.

When we have toothache (when a tooth hurts us), we go to the dentist’s. The dentist examines our teeth. The dentist asks: “Which tooth hurts you?” He says: “That tooth has a cavity. I must stop it (I must put in a filling). If the tooth is too bad, the dentist extracts it.