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Архитектура Аудит Военная наука Иностранные языки Медицина Металлургия Метрология Образование Политология Производство Психология Стандартизация Технологии |
Read the text below and fill in the gaps using the given words.
dangerous / psychoactive / medical supervision / abuse drugs / change the way
1.More people ____________ nowadays than in any other time in history of mankind. Many of those people are youth. Drugs are _______________ substances that people take to ____________ they feel, think or behave. Some of these substances are called drugs. And others, like alcohol and tobacco, are considered _________________, but are not called drugs. The term drug also covers a number of substances that must be used under ________________ to treat illnesses. Read the text below and write down why people use drugs. 2.In the past, most drugs were made from plants. Plants were grown and then converted into drugs such as coca paste, opium and marijuana. In the 20th century, people found out how to make drugs from chemicals. These are called synthetic drugs and include ecstasy, LSD, etc. These were initially produced for largely experimental reasons and only later were used for recreational purposes. Now, however, with the increased size and scope of the drug trade, people invent drugs especially for human consumption. People use drugs just to escape the reality, to have fun or to change the way they feel, think and behave. The majority of them are young, even very young, who do not understand what may happen to them because of drugs.
Choose the best ending for each of the sentences.
Read the text below and answer the questions.
People who start taking drugs can’t do it for long without being found out. Symptoms of even light drug use are drowsiness, moodiness, loss of appetite. Moreover, drugs are very expensive and few young people are able to find the money they need from their allowance alone. Almost inevitably, needing money to pay for drugs leads to crime.
Speak about the damage of drugs. TOPIC 37. THE DAMAGE OF SMOKING
Do you want to be healthy, wise and strong? Sure you are! Then smoking is not for you. It is one of the hardest habits to break. Reading the texts about smoking you’ll know about all the damage of it.
Look at the table. Fill it in and write down the possible damage of smoking and the benefits of stopping smoking.
Read the text and find the English equivalents of the given words
Text A.The Damage of Smoking
Smoking is very dangerous. Most young people smoke because their friends pressure them to do so. They may be copying their parents who smoke or other adults they respect. At one time this would have been accepted as normal. But in the past 30 years attitudes about smoking have changes. Smoking is now banned in many places so that other people don’t have to breathe in smoker’s shocking tobacco smoke. Passive smoking, when you are breathing someone else’s smoke, can damage your health just like smoking can. Smoking becomes addictive very quickly, and it’s one of the hardest habits to break. Take 1000 young people who smoke 20 cigarettes a day. A quarter of them will die from a disease caused by smoking. That’s 250 lives wasted! Only six of those 1000 teenagers will die in road accidents. So what is it in cigarette smoke that is harmful? A chemical called nicotine is a substance that causes addiction. It is a stimulant that increases the pulse rate and a rise in the blood pressure. Cigarette smoke also contains tar – a major factor for causing cancer. Chronic bronchitis occurs when tar and mucus damage the air sacks in the lungs. The sufferer has a bad cough which is worse in the morning, and may get breathless easily. Gases in cigarette smoke increase your blood pressure and pulse rate. This can contribute to heart diseases. Smokers as twice as non-smokers are likely to have heart trouble. Smokeless tobacco that is chewed rather than smoked, is also harmful, causing mouth sores, damage to teeth and cancer. If you’ve ever watched an adult try to give up smoking, you know how hard it can be. It’s easier, healthier and cheaper never to start.
Facts about smoking
Text B.The Benefits of Stopping Smoking Stopping smoking takes some time. There are some stages. If you get to the final stage and fail, just start from the beginning. If you have tried before and failed, still have another go. If you are not sure that you can make it, think of this: there are millions of people who have stopped smoking. So you can do it too. Make up your mind you are going to stop, and you will. Lots of people have been surprised how easy it was to stop once they had really made up their minds. Think about what you gain by stopping. Right now You will be free from an expensive and damaging habit. You will be healthier and breathe more easily – for example, when you climb stairs or run for a bus. You will be free of the worry that you may be killing yourself. For the future You will lose your smoker’s cough. You will suffer fewer colds and other infections. You will avoid the dangers that smokers face. On average, people killed by smoking lose 10 or 15 years of their lives. If you stop smoking before you get cancer or serious heart or lung disease from smoking, then you will avoid nearly all the risks of death or disability from smoking. And although the main risk of smoking is to the smoker, nonsmoker who lives with the smoker have a higher chance of getting chest disease. So what’s stopping you? Questions to the text A.
Complete the sentences
Prove the statement: Smoking damages the health.
Give your reasons to give up smoking.
Your friend is going to give up smoking. Encourage him 1. Прими решение бросить курить. 2. Верь в успех. 3. Думай о преимуществах отказа от курения. 4. Отказ от курения занимает время. Будь сильным. 5. Пройди весь путь, все стадии.
Situations 1. You are a leader of the anti-smoking campaign. Write down the slogans of it.
2. Mike is fond of sport. He chooses a healthy active life without smoking. Tell what exactly he chooses.
TOPIC 38. CANCER Cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases of our time. It takes away many lives. Remember that the way you live influences your health.
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