II. What do you think? Can a man and a woman be close friends without being lovers? Check the opinions you agree with.
v Sometimes they can be friends, but usually friendship between a man and a woman is difficult.
v Maybe not. If a man and a woman are close friends, they will naturally become lovers.
v Yes, they can. I know a lot of cases like that among my friends.
v It's impossible, because men always want to have sex with women they like.
v Of course they can. I have some good men friends and we're just friends.
III. What is your best friend like? Use three adjectives.
For example, tall, kind, talkative.
She (He) is _______, _______and____
Why is that person your best friend?
For example, She helps me when I'm in trouble.
We have a great time talking together.
Is your best friend a man or a woman?
LET’S THINK
Everybody knows that health is the most valuable thing of all. You can have everything: a brilliant career, a lot of money, a loving family, but if you haven’t got health – you have nothing. Only one moment may change the whole life. Today you are a healthy man, tomorrow – a deadly ill person. You realise that every month, week, day, even a second makes you incapable to move your legs or arms, just breathe. Your friends and relatives will take care of you but it is so difficult to see their sufferings... And you’ve decided. What if I help myself and my close people? Just take some more drugs? Man should be strong enough to make such a decision. Or is it man’s weakness? Can man decide himself whether to live or to die? Perhaps, illness is a sore trial sent by God for sins?
What is your opinion?
I. Study the words.
| to make a decision | di ̀siʒ(ə)n | принять решение |
| a deadly mixture of smth | ̀dedli ̀mikst∫ə | смертельная смесь чего-либо |
| drug (n) | ̀drÙg | лекарство; наркотик |
| to enjoy smth (v) | ̀indʒÉi | наслаждаться ч.-л. |
| disease (n) | di ̀zi:z | болезнь |
| cell (n) | ̀sel | (биол.) клетка |
| brain (n) | ̀brein | мозг |
| cord (n) spinal cord | ̀spainl kÉ:d | (анат.) связка спинной мозг |
| to paralyse (v) | ̀pærəlaiz | парализовать |
| to swallow (v) | ̀swÉləu | глотать |
| to breathe (v) | bri:ð | дышать |
| to cure for disease (v) | ̀kjuə | вылечить болезнь |
| to kill oneself (v), to end one’s life, to commit suicide | kə`mit `sjuisaid | покончить с собой |
| coffin (n) | ̀kÉfin | гроб |
| to bury (v) | ̀beri | хоронит |
| to keep on (v) | продолжать | |
| a life-support machine (n) | `laif sə`pÉt mə̀∫i:n | аппарат для поддержания жизнедеятельности |
| to become a vegetable | bi ̀kÙm ̀vedʒitəbl | стать «овощем» |
| regardless of | rìga:dləs Év | независимо от, не считаясь |
| to punish for smth | ̀pÙni∫ | наказывать за что-либо |
| to inject (v) | in`dʒekt | делать инъекцию |
| to suffer from (v) | ̀̀sÙfə | страдать от |
| to put in prison | `priz(ə)n | посадить в тюрьму |
| euthanasia (n) | ,ju:θə`neiziə | эвтаназия |
Euthanasia – practice of mercifully ending a person’s life in order to release the person from an incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. The word euthanasia derives from the Greek for “good death” and originally referred to intentional mercy killing. When medical advances made prolonging the lives of dying or comatose patients possible, the term euthanasia was also applied to a lack of action to prevent death.
|
|
|
II. Guess the meaning of the words and explain their meaning.
Nerve cells, vocal cord, to paralyze, to become a vegetable.
III. Make up derivatives.
| Noun | paralyses (pl. -ysis) | |||
| Adjective | successful | |||
| Verb | to breathe | to inject |
IV. Find the synonyms.
A. to make a decision, drugs, disease, to kill oneself, to keep on.
B. to go on, illness, to solve, to commit suicide, medicine.
|
|
|
V. Match the words with their definitions.
| to enjoy | a piece of equipment which keeps a person alive when they are seriously ill |
| brain | the box in which a dead person is buried or burnt |
| coffin | the organ of the body in the upper part of the head |
| to bury | to cause someone who has broken the law to suffer |
| regardless of | to get pleasure from, like |
| to inject | to put a dead body into a grave |
| a life-support machine | to put (liquid) into someone with a special needle |
| to punish (for smth) | without worrying about or taking account of |
VI. Translate from Russian into English .
Смертельная смесь алкогольных напитков; кот проглотил ласточку; тяжело дышать; это лекарство поможет от головной боли; новый аппарат для поддержания жизнедеятельности доставлен сегодня в больницу; повреждение (damage) головного или спинного мозга очень опасны; авария парализовала движение; он сделал укол и перестал дышать – его мечта о самоубийстве осуществилась; гроб из красного дерева (mahogany [mə`hogəni]) могут позволить себе только богатые люди; вы когда-нибудь хоронили родных?; их посадили в тюрьму на 20 лет; она страдала от боли, но продолжала любить; некоторые люди предпочитают умереть, чем становиться овощем; голландские доктора не наказываются за эвтаназию; дети умеют наслаждаться жизнью.
THE RIGHT TO DIE
Keoni Tabio has made a decision. Read the story and find out: Why does he want to end his life?
Keoni Tabido had planned how he will spend his final hours: He will have a party for his friends, with lots of food, drink and music. Later, he will spend time with his girlfriend. And then, at midnight, he will take a deadly mixture of drugs.
|
|
|
Mr. Tabido is not crazy. He is a 33-year-old businessman. He is very successful, has a lot of money and enjoys life.
But Mr.Tabido has a terrible disease. This disease kills the nerve cells in his brain and spinal cord, slowly paralyzing him. Gradually, it will be difficult for him to swallow and breathe. There is no cure for this deadly disease.
So, after a great deal of thought, Mr. Tabido has decided to kill himself. He has told his family and friends about his plan. He has even bought a wooden coffin in which he will be buried.
“I don’t want to become a vegetable, kept alive on a life-support machine,” Mr. Tabido says. “I can’t imagine anything worse. So I have planned my own death. I will do it while I can think and act clearly. I want to go out doing what I love best - having a good time”.
In Mr. Tabido’s country, it is against the law to help people die. If anyone, even a doctor, helps somebody to die, regardless of how sick or old that person is, they could be put in prison for 20 years.
Mr. Tabido is trying to make sure no one is punished for helping him die. “Two doctors have helped me,” says Mr. Tabido. “But I will never tell anyone their names. These doctors have given me the drugs and showed me how to inject myself. I will have only one chance, so I have to do it right the first time.”
“I know that some people think it is wrong to kill yourself, and for others to help you. But they don’t have a disease like mine. For me, there is no choice.”
Дата добавления: 2019-09-02; просмотров: 141; Мы поможем в написании вашей работы! |
Мы поможем в написании ваших работ!