12. Choose one of the statements and agree or disagree with it. Motivate your answer in 5 sentences. Do it in written form.
“Walking is man's best medicine.” Hippocrates
“Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.” Brian Carter
“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” Lord Byron
“The best doctor gives the least medicines.” Benjamin Franklin
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.” Voltaire
“Health is not valued till sickness comes.” Thomas Fuller.
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4.
You’ve been
taking a strong medicine to treat one of your health problems. The
medicine happened to have a number of side effects. Write a letter
of complaint to the pharmaceutical company which had manufactured
it, describing the problem in detail (120-180 words). Make use of
the hint below.
The purpose of a letter of complaint is to complain about a specific problem. The style is normally formal and the letter should be written in a dignified tone. The reason for the complaint is stated in the first sentence. A suggestion or request is included in the conclusion.
Paragraph Plan for Letters of Complaint
Your address
(2 Swan St.,
Brighton,
England.
5th September, 2008)
The recipient’s address
(The Manager
The Health Line Company
112 Hailey St.,
London.)
Salutation
(Dear Sir/Madam,)
Paragraph 1 - reason(s) for writing
(I was disgusted be; I was extremely appalled at; I want to express my strong dissatisfaction; I am writing to complain; I had been led to believe; Your … is unacceptable; I couldn’t believe that…)
Paragraph 2, 3 - complaint with justification
Final paragraph – closing remarks
( I fully insist you replace the item at once; I demand you fully refund my money; I hope you will replace; I trust the situation will improve; I hope the matter will be resolved;)
Yours faithfully
Name
Signature
15. Investigate one of the following issues looking for some information in books, magazines, newspapers, encyclopaedias or the Internet and write 10 theses on it. Be ready to present all the copies of the materials you used to your teacher.
Nanotechnologies – a step into the future.
Traditional healing: herbal therapy, hypnoses, magic.
Hyman brain and its potential.
Our prominent countrymen and their contribution to medicine (Pirogov, Amosov).
Transplantology: practices and problems.
AIDS – the plague of the 21st century.
Smoking – a slow and gradual suicide.
Vaccination: to do or not to do?
Neurolinguistic programming (NLP): how to influence the brain through communication.
Human sleep: the rest of the brain or parallel reality.