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Bill Gives Advice Text vocabulary Leisure time. hobby Text vocabulary Public health in belarus |
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^ - Hello, everybody! - Hello, Bill. Come in and sit down. - We are planning our week-end. Can you give us a piece of advice? - Well, there are dozens of ways of spending a week-end. It depends on the season, your character and your mode of life. You can go to the country to ski, to fish, to pick berries and mushrooms, to bathe, to boat, to walk in the forest, to lie in the sun, to watch birds, to hunt butterflies, etc. You can stay in town and go to the cinema, theatre, to an exhibition, a museum, to a dancing party or a discotheque, a café or a restaurant, you can visit your friends, drop at your old aunt’s to borrow money. If you prefer to stay indoors you can: watch TV, read newspapers, and magazines, sleep till 2 p.m, do the flat, quarrel with your folks at home, listen to music, do nothing, etc. But if you`ve got a car there are only two ways to spend the week-end. You either enjoy a pleasant car drive in the country or spend the week-end in your garage repairing the car. It’s really a pleasure to live in a large city and to be able to escape from it whenever you feel like that. Last week-end the weather was fine and my friends and I went on a picnic to the country. We found a nice place in the forest on the bank of the river. We did not lie in the sun and swim as it is late autumn and it is cool enough. We played different games. Some of us were wandering along the paths in the forest picking up beautiful yellow and red leaves. Then we made fire and cooked meat. We enjoyed eating food in fresh air sitting by the fireplace, playing the guitar and singing songs. We had fun and were in touch with nature and came back to town refreshed and happy. I advise you to go to the country next week-end. ^
^ What is a hobby? It is a favourite occupation of a person in his free time. There are hundreds of personal interests and ways of spending one’s free time. Some people are very interested in dancing. They attend classes of classical or modern ballet, or they like folk-dancing. So they devote their leisure time to this kind of occupation. Quite a lot of people are great cinema- or theatre-goers. It’s their hobby not to miss a film or a play which they consider to be worth seeing. Thousands of people are passionate readers. They think it is a very useful pastime as it gives them a lot of information, broadens their mind and enriches their life experience. Young people are mostly fond of pop- or rock-music. They collect records or tape-recordings of their favourite groups or singers. They go to concerts, to discotheques, they can listen to the music from morning till night. Many boys and girls take musical classes where they learn to sing or to play different musical instruments. Young girls and lots of women spend much time knitting or sewing. Some women and men take up cooking, gardening or planting flowers. But perhaps one of the most popular ways of spending leisure time is collecting things. People collect various things: stamps, coins, postcards, stones, shells, dolls, badges and so on and so forth. As for me, when I was a schoolboy I collected coins. I took up this hobby with great pleasure. And my collection of coins was big. And I often went to the cinema, I did not miss any new film. Now I don’t have much time to spare but in the rare hours of leisure I listen to music or read books. My mother is fond of planting flowers. She turned our living-room into a sort of green-house. My father is in the habit of reading newspapers or watching TV. Sometimes, however, he can repair something in the house or his car when he has free time. ^
III. Answer the following questions.
Note: it rains cats and dogs - льет как из ведра IV. Ask your groupmate:
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VI. Speak about your leisure time and holiday making using the following plan:
^ I. Remember the following words and phrases and use them as much as possible in your topics. Vocabulary
II. Read this text. Be ready to discuss it. Public Health in Belarus The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus guarantees the right to health protection for all citizens of our country ensuring them material security in sickness, disability and in old age. Health protection in the Republic of Belarus is free of charge. Any person who falls ill is entitled to sick-leave pay. The prevention of diseases and extension of the life-span are the major principles of our health service. Now the life-span of Belarusian people averages 63.2 years for men and 74.5 years for women. The mortality rate is 14.3/0. In 2004 the birth rate was 9/0, the infant mortality was 6.9/0. A sick person may undertake treatment at various medical institutions such as out-patient and in-patient hospitals, health centres, rest homes, emergency hospitals, sanatoria and etc. The total number of doctors in these institutions is about 46,000 and that of nursing personnel is 119,000. Every year more than 1,460 young doctors graduate from four higher medical schools. Paramedical personnel are trained at 17 specialized medical colleges. At the out-patient hospitals patients receive out-patient treatment. There is a broad range of well-equipped laboratories for making analyses and procedure-rooms. There are 651 hospitals in the Republic of Belarus which provide qualified in-patient treatment and have all the necessary modern facilities for making a diagnosis. We have specialized health centres: cardiologic, neurologic, oncologic, and others. Much has been done in the Republic of Belarus to solve the problem of mother and child welfare. There are special labour laws for pregnant women. We have thousands of child health centres, special children’s hospitals and out-patient departments, numerous ante-natal and post-natal clinics. Belarusian people may build up their health at sanatoria and rest-homes. Great attention is paid to the surrounding environment - the elimination of air pollution with industrial and automobile gases, the control of growing noises in large cities. There are nine Research Institutes in the Republic of Belarus which make great efforts to resolve the most topical problems of Public Health, to coordinate the research work of the Chairs of Higher Medical Schools of our country. The activity of these institutions is aimed at elaborating new methods of treatment and applying them in current practice. The Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Belarus heads the scientific activity of researchers. It has provided our scientists in the field of medicine with the best possible conditions for developing their creative initiative. |
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