Тема 14. Health

Health care is a system for keeping people healthy. A healthy person not only feels good physically but also enjoys life.Sometimes people can get ill , they may feel pain, some part of their body may hurt, or they can get an injury . Then people go to a doctor and ask for help. The doctor tries to find out what illness the patient has. The patient can be treated in different ways. One of them is taking medicines. As a result the patient can be cured .

One of the illnesses that doctors most often treat is a common cold . The symptoms of it are a runny nose and sneezing. If you have flue, you can have a very high temperature and a bad headache. You can also start coughing . If the temperature is not very high but it hurts when you cough, it may be pneumonia. Many people nowadays have allergies. They may have a red rash, watery eyes or start sneejing.

Vocabulary

health care — охорона здоров'я

get ill — захворіти

pain — біль

hurt — боліти

injury — травма

illness — хвороба

be treated medicines — лікуватися

cured — вилікуватись

common cold — проста застуда

runny nose — нежить

sneezing — чхання

flue — грип

coughing —кашель

pneumonia — пневмонія

allergies — алергія

Proverbs “HEALTH”

1. A sound mind in a sound body.

В здоровому тілі - здоровий дух.

2) After dinner sіt a while after supper walk a mile.

Після обіду посидь хвилю, після вечері пройди милю.

3) An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Яблуко в день тримає тебе геть від лікаря.

4) Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.

Хворобу клин клином вибивають.

5) Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,wealthy and wise.

Хто рано встає, тому Бог дає.

6) Good health is above wealth.

Добре здоров’я - краще багатства.

7) Laughter is the best medicine.

Сміх - найкращі ліки.

8) Live not to eat but eat to live.

Живи не для того, щоб їсти, але їж для того, щоб жити.

Тема 15. Harmful Habits

Harmful habits are like parasites - they stick to us almost without being noticed. And when we finally notice their presence and their harmful influence, they already make themselves at home in the fine comfortable dwelling of our bodies and souls devouring them inside out.

Harmful habits attract people's attention with their notion which implies the concept of forbidden fruit, the air of prestige and certainly, the taste of self-indulgence, and we're all so fond of the latter, aren't we?

Smoking is definitely one of the harmful habits. Saying that smoking is bad is just too trivial, we've been hearing this opinion for a very long time, but some of us still smoke irrespective of all the views regarding its harmful influence on our health giving in to their own weakness and inability to resist certain tempting temptations.

Another harmful habit is drinking alcohol. Needless to say it is as easy to get rid of as smoking. It brings harm to a person's health - no doubt about it, but this parasite is also very skilful when it's about destroying a person's identity and leaving a person helplessly purposelessly interested in one thing only - alcohol.

Drugs are equally destructive and lethally harmful habit. They deprive people of all the desires and principles, and turn them into empty creatures that are unable to survive without feeding their obsession with these addictive substances.

There are numerous amounts of harmful habits desperately attempting to invade our bodies being too lazy to build their own dwellings. We should remember that our main task here is to resist.