- •My place in the world
- •1. Read and memorize the following words and word-combinations:
- •2. Memorize the Health Idioms:
- •3. Read and translate the text: healthy way of life
- •4. Answer these questions:
- •5. Are these statements true or false?
- •6. Circle the correct word.
- •7. Write sentences using the zero conditional based on the cues below.
- •8. Look at the health leaflet. Can you complete each sentence?
- •What your score means
- •Fast Food or Slow Food?
- •11. Are these statements true or false? Rewrite the false statements to make them true.
- •12. Read the text from the history of the Hot Dog and then give some background information on any other popular fast food.
- •13. Read the dialogues and match them with the descriptions. Then complete each dialogue with the words from each box.
- •Match the word-combinations with their definitions and make up
- •Answer the following how-questions about your family relationships.
- •Read what Kelly, a British teenage girl, says about bond building in
- •20. Read the four abstracts devoted to family relationship issues and mark which of them is a piece of:
- •21. Read the commentary “Gender Roles in the Media” and fill it with
- •22. Read the interview with the American and British women about some changes in gender roles in the family and then comment it. Are Gender Roles Still Applicable in Modern Times?
- •23. Read the information and then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of gender roles in education:
- •24. In pairs make a dialogue, describing the way you exercise the art of compromise and the gender role in your family and then present it to your groupmates. Leisure time
- •Read and memorize the following words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Reproduce the dialogue paying attention to the various kinds of
- •6. Use the correct form of the verbs from the box to complete the sentences:
- •7. Complete the sentences below with the prepositions from the box.
- •8. Here are some people talking about their hobbies. Can you guess what each hobby is? Use the words in the box once only.
- •9. Complete these sentences with a verb from the box in the appropriate form:
- •10. Reproduce the dialogue ‘Hobby Pursuits’:
- •11. When the weather is fine, it’s good to relax in the open air and have a
- •12. Answer the questions:
- •Read the information about popular free time activities of teenagers in
- •Speak about your own spending of leisure time, your favourite
- •Read and memorize the following words and word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Answer the questions to the text:
- •Are these statements true or false according to the information about Ukraine’s architecture?
- •Read the following information: museums and galleries in london
- •Discuss in pairs the following questions:
- •Read the dialogue and put the or no article in each blank:
- •Reproduce the dialogue “a Talk on Arts”
- •Find out some information about museums, exhibitions or galleries
- •In Ukraine and make a dialogue. Література
What your score means
1-5 You should change your lifestyle!
6-11 Think carefully about what you eat, and get a little more exercise.
12-15 You lead a healthy life.
16-18 You are very fit and healthy. Are you sure that you're being honest?
10. Read the following article about the influence of fast food on the human organism:
Fast Food or Slow Food?
In North America people are always in a hurry. Children have special lessons or sports activities after school. Parents often work late and don’t get home until 7 or 8 o’clock at night. More than 50 percent of women work at full-time jobs, and many people do shift work. It isn’t a surprise that the average North American family doesn’t have the time to eat many meals together.
When a family takes the time to eat a meal together, often there isn’t enough time to prepare the food. That is why “fast food” is so popular in North America. People spend about 40 percent of their food dollars on fast food.
Fast food is food such as hamburgers, pizza, submarine sandwiches, or fries chicken. People usually buy this food from a restaurant chain such as Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, or Kentucky Fries Chicken. Fast food saves work and time, but it is not very nutritious.
Fast food is popular in many countries. American fast-food companies now have restaurants all over the world. There are McDonald’s restaurants in Bangkok, Moscow, Kyiv, and Mexico City, as well as in Paris, London, and Rome.
Not everyone is happy about the spread of North American fast food. A group of people in Italy wants to fight the spread of American fast food. They do not want any more fast-food chains to open restaurants in their country. Their organization is called the Slow Food Movement. This group wants to fight against the spread of fast food everywhere.
They fight not only against the spread of North American eating habits. According to scientists, overeating and a weakness for fast food and sweet carbonated drinks (soda pop) are not simply a question of tradition or self-discipline. People who like hamburgers, French fries, soda pop and other fast food can become addicted to these products, which have been proven to be as addictive as drugs.
Regular consumption of products with a high fat content and carbohydrates can cause such changes in the human brain that will make it very difficult for a person to refuse such products. By stimulating the production of opiates, large doses of frozen foods can cause a state of narcotic intoxication.
A team of scientists at Princeton University proved that rats kept for a certain period on a diet with a 25% sugar content showed withdrawal symptoms like shaking and gritting their teeth after they were taken off the diet. When the rats were given a dose of medicine, which blocked their opiate receptors, their condition returned to normal.
The scientists say that neurochemical activity in drug addicts going through withdrawal changes along exactly the same patterns. Experts studying the problems of excess weight or obesity believe that eating fast food and sweets stimulates a cycle in the body known as “immediate satiation”. This is characterized by an acute rise in blood sugar content and, hence, the desire to eat more. Once there, the path to pathological dependence continues.