Follow-Up Activities. 4.1. Roleplay the telephone conversations you’ve listened to.4.1. Roleplay the telephone conversations you’ve listened to. In pairs talk about the symptoms that are worrying you and ask for advice. Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING Text Title: Medical advice Cassette: From Streamline English. Directions, by P.Viney Pre-Listening Vocabulary Go through the vocabulary list given below to avoid any difficulty of understanding. draught [drAùft] - сквозняк germ [dZÎùm] - микроб interferon [ÇInt«ÈfI«rn] - интерферон (лекарство) solution [s«ÈluùS«n] - раствор old wives’ tales - предрассудки infect [InÈfekt] - заражать, заносить инфекцию Dr. Guy Lines - имя собственное Listening Exercises Listen to the recording and identify the following statements as True or False. 1. All the volunteers who stay at the Research Centre are infected with a solution of cold germs. 2. The researchers from the Common Cold Research Unit haven’t found a cure yet. 3. Vitamin C applied in large doses seems to help people even if taken after a cold has started. 4. Interferon does give good results, but it’s wildly expensive. 5. The best way to treat a cold is to have plenty of rest and to take plenty of liquid.
Listen to the recording again and fill in the required information about the radio programme using the chart below.
2.3. Copy some of Dr. Guy Lines’ answers leaving the blanks in the sentences. While listening to the recording again fill in the missing words. 1. We ask volunteers to stay with us at the Research Centre for … weeks … 2. Actually, we give … of them a cold. 3. If you treat a cold, it takes about … to get over it. 4. If you don’t treat it … then it takes about … … to get over it. 5. … large doses of vitamin C, and I mean … or … grams a day… 6. Vitamins … and … … also seem to help. Language Focus 3.1. While listening to the tape this time pick out and write down the sentences containing the word “research”. There are 7 of them in all. Check your auditory memory by giving the English equivalents for the following Russian sentences. 1. Не могли бы вы вкратце рассказать о своей работе? 2. Мы просим добровольцев провести в исследовательском центре 2 недели и вносим в их организм простуду. 3. Мы инфицируем их раствором, содержащим микробы простуды. Другие получают обычную чистую воду. 4. Наши исследователи не знают, какие из добровольцев были инфицированы. 5. - Как Вы набираете добровольцев? -- По их устному согласию. 6. Затем мы можем изучать эффект различных способов лечения простуды. 7. Нашли ли Вы средство лечения? 8. Я бы хотел избавиться от некоторых предрассудков. Простуду вызывают микробы, а не мокрые ноги, холодный воздух или нахождение на сквозняке. 9. Если Вы будете лечиться от простуды, то поправитесь за неделю. 10. Похоже, что большие дозы витамина С помогают некоторым людям, если он применяется при первом же проявлении простуды. Однако если простуда уже началась, витамин С малоэффективен. 11. Интерферон дает хорошие результаты, но он чрезвычайно дорогой. Follow-Up Activity Write a paragraph describing the work of the Common Cold Research Unit. In your paragraph be sure to give answers to the following questions: 1. How do you get a cold? 2. What old wives’ tales does Mr Guy Lines want us to get rid of? 3. What helps the symptoms when you get a cold, but doesn’t cure it? 4. How much does vitamin C seem to help? 5. What’s Dr. Lines’ final advice?
UNIT 2 Lesson A. IN-CLASS LISTENING Texts Titles: 1. I love my job A day in my life Cassettes: From Kernel Three, by R.O’Neill, A.McLean
TEXT 1. I love my job Listening Exercises Listen to Margaret talking and choose the right option to make up true statements. 1. Margaret’s job is difficult / different. 2. She doesn’t like long / lone hours. 3. Her boyfriend’s name is Joe / John. 4. The hospital where Margaret works is 14 / 40 miles from London. 5. It’s quite old / cold, but it’s got all the latest equipment. 6. The older patients don’t want to live in / to leave hospital at all. 7. She visits them at home, but it’s hard to get on time / the time. 8. You can / can’t show them how you feel. 9. You can / can’t do more than that.
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