Related topic: “Healthy Life”

1 What do you think of this healthy programme for schoolchildren?

2 What things are banned at British schools? Are they banned in our schools too?

3 Do you always eat healthy food? What food do you think is healthy?

4 Everybody knows that fast food is unhealthy. Do you often eat it?

5 How often do you exercise? What kind of exercise do you do?

6 Do you smoke? Why is smoking dangerous for people’s health?

7 Do you get enough sleep? Why? / Why not? How many hours do you sleep?

8 Is it necessary to teach children how to be healthy? Who should teach it?

9 Do you think the media plays an important role in how teenagers think and behave? Explain.

10 If you were a doctor what the most important advice would you give people if they want to live a long life?

Television in britain

People in Britain watch on average 25 hours of TV every week. Television viewing is Britain's most popular leisure time. About 96 per cent of the population of Britain have television in their homes.

There are five main channels in Britain: two national commercial-free BBC networks, BBC1 and BBC2, and the commercial ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 services. The BBC channels are commercial free while the other three have commercials. All the channels offer a mixture of drama, light entertainment, films, sport, educational, children’s and religious programs, news and current affairs, and documentaries.

Related topic: “Television”

1 Are there more or fewer TV channels in Russia?

2 Which of them do you prefer? Why?

3 What is your favourite TV channel? Why?

4 What programmes do they show on this channel?

5 Which are your favourite programmes? Why?

6 Are the programmes on British television different or the same?

7 What’s your attitude to commercials on radio and TV?

8 Are all TV channels in Britain and in Russia commercial free?

9 What are advantages and disadvantages of watching television?

10 Could you do without TV? Explain.

The River Thames

The river Thames is the cleanest river in the world that flows through a capital city. However, fifty years ago the river was so polluted that it was declared biologically dead. From 1830 to 1860 thousands of people died of cholera as a result of the pollution in the Thames. Despite the foul smell, people continued to wash and bathe and drink from the river. In 1878 the pleasure ship Princess Alice sunk in the river collision. Most of the 600 or so passengers who died didn’t die from drowning; they died because of the pollution in the river.

The water in the Thames became clearer and people’s health improved only after ‘treatment plants’ had been built at the beginning of the 20^th century.

Related topic: “Healthy Life”

Television in britain

Related topic: “Problems of Ecology”