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XX. Make up your own dialogues describing your last visit to the doctor. Keep in mind the following points:

a) complaints on your health

(I’ve got a cold / a sore throat / a temperature / a stomach ache / chest pains, etc. I feel sick / dizzy / breathless / shivery / faint / particularly bad at night. I’m depressed / tired all the time. I’ve lost my appetite/ voice; I can’t sleep, my nose itches and it hurts me.)

b) the doctor’s questions

(1. What are you complaining of?

2. What’s the trouble? / What troubles you?

3. When did you take the temperature? What was it?

4. When did you start to feel bad?

5. Does it hurt when you swallow?

6. What diseases were you ill when you were a child?

7. When did you consult the doctor last?

8. Are you subject to headaches?

9. Where do you have pains? / Where exactly is the pain?

10. When do you have pains? / When do you get it?

11. How long have you been like that? /... does the pain last? /... have

you had it?

12. Do you have health insurance?

13. Are you taking any medication?

14. Have you ever had any operations?

15. Are you allergic to anything?)

c) the doctor’s activity

(test / take blood pressure, do X-ray, examine / feel the pulse do blood test, sound the chest / heart / lungs, remove tonsils, pull / take out a tooth, to operate, make / give an injection, write a prescription)

d) the doctor’s advice / prescription

(prescribe an injection, take medicine, apply the ointment / drops, rub the cream, wear glasses / contact lenses, stay from work, put a bandage/plaster on, have an operation, stay in bed for some time, keep warm, be on a sick list, take a hot water bottle / bag, consult a doctor

do blood transfusion, take more exercise, lie flat)

XXI. A) Read the text and answer the questions.

Can We Live Longer?

Scientists say that in the future people will live longer. With healthier lifestyles and better medical care the average person will live to 90 or 100 instead of 70 and 75 like today. When the human genome is decoded, we’ll probably live up to 150. Incurable diseases will be cured and “bad” genes replaced.

But that’s tomorrow. And today, we continue to stuff ourselves with fast food – chips and pizzas, hamburgers and hot dogs. We are always in a hurry. We have no time to enjoy a home-cooked dinner with family and friends. We want to eat now and we want to eat fast.

What is tasty is not always healthy. Doctors say that chips and pizzas are fattening, cola spoils our teeth and coffee shortens our lives.

If we eat too much, we’ll become obese, and obesity leads to heart disease, diabetes and other serious illnesses. But the world today is getting fatter and fatter. America is the world’s leader in obesity, but Europe is quickly catching up.

Lack of exercise is another serious problem. We spend hours in front of our computers and TV-sets. Few of us do morning exercises. We walk less, because we prefer to use cars or public transport.

Research shows, however, that young people who don’t take enough exercise often suffer from heart attacks.

It’s common knowledge that smoking and drinking can shorten our lives dramatically. Cigarette-smoking, for example, kills about 3 million people every year. Many of them die from lung cancer. Some aren’t even smokers. They are people who live or work with heavy smokers.

Yet many young people smoke and drink. Why? One answer is that tobacco and drinks companies invest enormous sums of money in advertising their products. For them cigarettes and alcoholic drinks mean money. For us they mean disease and even death.

We all know that the healthier we are, the better we feel. The better we feel, the longer we live. So why not take care of ourselves?

QUESTIONS

  1. Do you think people will live longer in the future?

  2. Do you believe that one day genetic engineers will be able to

correct “gene” mistakes?

  1. Do you like fast food? Is it tasty?

  2. Why is fast food bad for us?

  3. What illnesses does obesity lead to?

  4. Are Europeans getting fatter?

  5. Do you take regular exercises?

  6. In some countries tobacco and alcohol advertising has been

banned. Do you think it’s a good idea?

  1. Is passive smoking dangerous?

  2. Would you like to live a long life?

b) In pairs suggest and discuss your own ways how to live longer.

c) Compare your ideas with the advice given by Dr. Anita Redahan

of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA and say how far you agree with her.

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