Vocabulary

to inject - впрыскивать; привносить, приносить

festive - праздничный

alcohol - алкоголь

to relax - расслабляться

confident - уверенный в себе

sociable - общительный

attractive - привлекательный

opposite sex - противоположный пол

to sober up - протрезветь

to get drunk - пьянеть

to increase - увеличивать

accident - несчастный случай

to get into a fight - ввязаться в драку

to get stupid - глупеть, тупеть

hangover cure - средство от похмелья

to take a hair of the dog - опохмелиться

fatal - роковой, смертельный

to slow down the brain - зд. замедлять реакцию

potentially - потенциально

mate - приятель

to keep up with - не отставать от

to take foolish risks - совершать необдуманные поступки

to ruin one's life - погубить свою жизнь

to contract - подхватить, заразиться

AIDS - СПИД

slurred speech - невнятная, бессвязная речь

myth - миф

to be absorbed - всасываться

bloodstream - кровеносная система

including - включая

to remove - выводить

brain - мозг

cell - клетка

research - исследование

brainpower - умственные способности, интеллект

to lose consciousness - терять сознание

to choke - задохнуться, захлебнуться, подавиться

vomit - рвота

poisoning - отравление

liver - печень

stomach - желудок

to be high on calories - быть очень калорийным

to put on weight - набрать вес, поправиться

everyone around you is affected - это отражается на всех

to be engaged - быть вовлеченным в

to damage - наносить ущерб, портить

property - имущество

local -местный

alcohol-related - связанный с употреблением спиртного

to interrupt - прерывать

to care for - заботиться о ком-то

to be insulted - подвергаться оскорблениям

to be humiliated - быть униженным

to experience - испытать, пережить

sexual advance - сексуальное домогательство

argument - спор, выяснение отношений

to be assaulted - подвергаться нападению

6.1.Translate into English:

1. Алкоголь всасывается в кровь в течение нескольких минут и распространяется по всем частям тела, включая мозг.

2. Доказано, что женщине очень сложно перестать пить.

3. Около половины водителей в возрасте от 16 до 60-ти лет, погибших автокатастрофах имели алкоголь в крови.

4. Студенты, которые много пьют (алкогольных напитков) иногда шутят, что убивают несколько клеток головного мозга.

6.2.Say in other words: hair of the dog, brainpower, mate, sociable, festive

6.3.Make up a description of consequences of getting drunk.

6.4.Discuss some questions:

Have you ever been assaulted?

Have you ever had some problems in the streets, with some gangs?

Do you believe that there are some ‘easy drugs’?

6.5.Read the text 5. Answer the questions:

1. What happened to Ann?

2. Has she overcome her problems?

3. Have you (or you friends) ever been in such situations?

4. What, as you think, was the most difficult to overcome in Ann’s situation?

Text 5

The Day I Saved My Life

I saved myself from a terri­ble life the day I moved 2,000 miles away from home. Had I stayed, I probably wouldn't be alive right now to tell you this.

It started in high school. I joined a gang because I wanted to be like my older brother. Before my first fight, I was so nervous, I was shaking. From then on, it was violence and more violence. My 'crew' became my life and I started to love it. Watching my back was something I got used to. Once, on the way homefrom school, I was jumped by seven girls who busted a bottle over my head and kicked me until they thought I was unconscious. Another day, I got punched and stomped on by 15 girls and guys on the bus. I was shot at too many times to count. Many nights, after driving in danger­ous territory, we'd get out of the car to look at all of the bullet holes. It saddens right now to think about how many kids I know who've been killed. I look back and think, jeez, what if I'd been standing right there? Maybe it would have been me.

When I joined the crew, they asked if I wanted to try drugs. At first, I was like, 'Nah,' but then they said, 'Come on, try.' By the end of sophomore year, I was taking drugs in school. My grades dropped big time. We were basically at war with another gang, and between classes and after school I usually had a fight to look forward to. At the end of my junior year, we had this big, big fight. I kept hitting this girl in the ear until she pulled a knife on me. The next day when I got to school, I found out she'd gone deaf in that ear and I was arrested. Later, as I sat in the back of the cop car with my mom, I felt like a total disap­pointment. Getting arrested changed my life.

I quit my crew and started at a new school (because of my grades, I had to repeat a year), but that wasn't the end of my problems. I still hung with some gangbangers, and I became addicted to cocaine. Then one day I got greedy with the coke, sniffed too much and ended up on the floor, shaking and spit­ting. Even though I managed to graduate, I knew I really needed to start over. That's when I packed up and went to California to live with my sister. I got a job, opened a bank account and finally realised how much life had to offer me. Friends would write to me about who got shot. I didn't want to hear it. I wanted to leave it behind. Now I'm work­ing and going to school. I have new friends, and I haven't touched coke in a couple of years. When I go back home, I see the old gang hanging on the comer and I wonder if I hadn't left, would I be there too? Would I even be alive? I thought I was so strong back then, but I was weak, a follower. Now I'm showing my parents that they raised a strong, intelligent woman who can over­come her wrong-doings and make something of her life.

By Ann J., USA