Vocabulary

DOCTOR’S SURGERIES AND HOSPITALS

• Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage.

thermometer	prescription	operation	chemist	stethoscope	receptionist	appointment
ward	temperature	examine	treatment	pulse	waiting room	symptoms

When I go to the doctor, I tell the (a) ________ my name and take a seat in the (b) ________. My doctor is very busy so I have to make an (c) _________ before I go to see him. He asks me what’s wrong with me, I tell him the (d) _______ of my illness, for example high temperature, difficulty in breathing, or pains, and then he will usually (e) _______ me. He’ll listen to my heart with his (f) _______, he’ll hold my wrist to feel my (g) _______, he’ll take my (h) _______ with his (i) ________ .

The problem is usually something simple and he might give me a (j) _______ for some medicine, which I take to the (k) _______. Of course, if I needed more serious (l) ________, I’d have to go to hospital. There I’d be put in a bed in a (m) ________ with 10 or 20 other people. If there was something seriously wrong with me, I might need an (n) ________.

• Put one of the following words in each space in the sentences below.

from

on

with

in

to

for

of

1. He was operated _______ yesterday.

2. She was taken _______ hospital.

3. He suffered _______ bad headaches.

4. I have a pain _______ my back.

5. What’s wrong _______ you?

6. He died _______ cancer.

7. She got worse so they sent _______ a doctor.

I s sport always good for you?

What dangers do you face when you practise different forms of sport?

THE LIFELONG PENALTY FACING FOOTBALL-CRAZY YOUNGSTERS.

A few years ago, Stuart Pow was convinced he would be a professional footballer. ‘When I was at school, I thought I had it made.’ Now, at the age of 23, he no longer plays football. His knee is ‘too much of a mess,’ he says. Stuart’s professional aspirations were well founded. After being spotted in his early teens by talent scouts from his local club in Southampton, he started training with about fifty other young hopefuls. ‘I was playing four or five times a week,’ he recalls. ‘In summer, I used to go to camps for a solid month’s training.’ Within a couple of years, he began to have trouble with his right knee. His doctor told him that the bones had gradually worn away, because he had played too much sport before they had fully hardened. Now, although he plays some squash, tennis and badminton, football is out. ‘I never got over that,’ he says, ‘and I know I never will. It was my first love and giving it up took a big chunk out of my life.’

The wrecking of Stuart Pow’s career is not an isolated case. The Football Association is becoming increasingly concerned that promising young footballers, aged between ten and sixteen, are injuring themselves as a result of playing too much. Charles Hughes, the association’s director of coaching and education, estimates that at least one young star player a year is lost to the game nationally because of overuse injuries or stress fractures. ‘That means you could be losing a whole international team over a period of ten years,’ he says.

The Football Association is working on a strategy for persuading clubs to limit the number of games played by their most promising youngsters. Many of them play 140 or 150 games a season, Mr. Hughes says, which makes it impossible for them to train properly. The pressure on such players is greatest towards the end of the football season, when the evenings are lighter and many competitions are coming to a head, he explains. Mr. Hughes’s association has already held meetings for groups of doctors around the country, to alert them to the early symptoms of overuse injuries. The commonest symptom of this type of injury is pain. Mild stress fractures of the spine cause varying degrees of backache, and surgery may be needed to treat the most severe cases. Too much exercise while a child is growing may also irritate the growth points in the long bones, causing what parents and teachers often dismiss as ‘growing pains’.

Children who play other sports, such as tennis and gymnastics, are also at risk. Dr Tim Sonnex, a member of the FA’s medical committee, has seen children who have been encouraged to start weight training as young as eight. ‘But no child should be doing weight training below the age of eighteen.’ Other medical experts echo Dr Sonnex’s warnings. Vivian Grisogono, a physiotherapist, explains that playing football but no other sport causes an imbalance in the way the body develops. The legs are well developed, but when the child kicks the ball, the upper part of the body is too weak to act as a counterbalance, putting tremendous strain on the back. Boys should not do too much training during a growth spurt, because at this time, the difference in the lengths of a child’s legs may be as much as three or four centimetres. Rapid growth also causes an imbalance between the strength and flexibility of bones, making them more vulnerable.

‘The better the players, the more likely they are to have these injuries,’ says Dr Sonnex. They tend to be pushed more, sometimes even by their parents.

• Choose the most appropriate answer, according to the text.

1. What made Stuart Pow think he could be a professional footballer?

1. He was strong.

2. Other people told him he was good.

3. His teachers encouraged him.

4. He got summer training.

2. What is his view of football now?

1. He regrets devoting his time to it.

2. He envies other players.

3. He wishes his training had been different.

4. He wishes he could still play.

3. What does Charles Hughes want to do?

1. To encourage more young players to take up the sport.

2. To provide special training for selected young players.

3. To make those involved aware of the dangers to the young.

4. To improve the training of sports doctors.

4. According to the text, what is the usual reaction when children suffer pain?

1. To visit a doctor.

2. To prescribe a different type of exercise.

3. To pay little attention.

4. To get annoyed.

5. When are teenagers most at risk from injury?

1. When the evenings are light.

2. At the end of a long season.

3. When sudden growth occurs.

4. When no attention is given to the back.

• Answer the following questions.

1. What do you think made Stuart Pow love football so much?

2. Why did he have to give up the idea of becoming a professional footballer?

3. What risks do children run while training in football?

4. How can the risks be minimized for those who train professionally?

5. How do medical experts comment on children going in for sports?

6. Should parents force their children to do sport or to go in for sport?

7. What is in your opinion the right age to do sport as a career?

• Find English equivalents to the following phrases in the text:

1. профессиональные ожидания, надежды

2. человек, подающий надежды

3. кости постепенно износились, стали хрупкими

4. это не отдельный случай

5. растет озабоченность футбольной ассоциации

6. назреть, достигнуть критической или решающей стадии

7. создавая огромную нагрузку на спину

8. гибкость костей

9. уязвимый

• Summarize the text.

• Retell the text.

• Write a composition on the theme “Good or bad points of practising sports” (200-250 words). Use Core and Active Vocabulary.

Points to cover:

Sport and exercise you have ever done

Dangers you have faced, injuries you have suffered

Positive influence on your mental and physical health

Odd Mishaps Cause Computer Grief

A man so angry with his laptop that he shot it has topped an annual league table of the oddest computer mishaps.

Data recovery experts say although machine failure is blamed for the majority of lost files, humans are getting more careless too. But while ways to rescue files are increasingly sophisticated, people have to do more to protect and back up data. The list of the strangest ways data was lost was compiled by recovery experts Kroll Ontrack.

E-rage

Experts say the technical breakdown of computers is still the main cause of data loss, although human error in the form of neglect, rage and clumsiness is fast becoming one of the main reasons files need rescuing.

"Despite being the easiest problem to prevent, we are seeing more cases where human error is to blame," said Adrian Palmer from Kroll Ontrack.

TOP 10 DATA DISASTERS : Laptop shot in anger PC thrown out of the window to destroy evidence before police arrived Laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry Laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts Stolen PCs rescued after three weeks in a river Red wine spilt on laptop over dinner Server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt Computer thrown against a wall Latte-covered laptop rescued Laptop left on car roof as owner drives off

"Interestingly, we see a 15 to 20% increase in calls to recover lost data on Mondays."

"This could be a result of the rush to complete work and leave early for the weekend on Friday afternoons, as well as a lack of staff concentration on Monday mornings," he told BBC News Online.

The top 10 shows all is not necessarily lost when the computers become casualties of fire, wine and rage however.

Taking the number one spot is the US man who was so frustrated with his laptop, he shot it in a fit of e-rage, then realised there were important files he needed.

Hot on his heels is the company director whose soapy bath time ended in disaster when his laptop slipped in with him.

"People always think 'It will never happen to me' when it comes to losing data," said Mr Palmer.

There is also an emerging trend in the different ways men and women handle their loss.

More men than women are apparently more likely to try and retrieve the data themselves before asking for help from the experts, which sometimes causes more damage, said Mr Palmer.

Doctor doctor

Data recovery experts are the technological doctors and nurses of desktop or laptop hard drives.

Using increasingly sophisticated techniques, "lost" files or information can be rescued and rebuilt into a usable format.

This can happen in a matter of hours through remote access, but in more serious cases computer patients may have to be admitted to the lab.

The majority of mishaps in the top 10 list involved laptop computers, which are more susceptible to damage. There are countless examples of people forgetting them on public transport and in cafes or bars.

Experts recommend data be backed up daily or weekly and regular checks are made on back up systems to endure they are working.

In all the cases of the top 10 data loss accidents, computer files were rescued and restored.

Have you accidentally lost important files through clumsiness, rage or forgetfulness? Here are some stories from people telling us what their worst data disaster has been.

I carried my laptop from the back door to the car. I had trouble finding my keys so I placed the laptop in its carry case by the wheel. I then found my keys and got into the car and turned on the engine. Checked my mirrors and started to move. By the time I remembered that I had left my laptop behind it was too late. The laptop became very flat after that! Daniel, UK

I managed to lose 20GB of data that was on a hard drive I had in my rucksack, taking it to friends house to copy the data. I was also driving a rather powerful motorbike in dreadful conditions, I rolled on the power hit, the back wheel spun out on a tram track and bang I went down right on my rucksack. Although the hard disk was inside a polystyrene container, the impact caused the read arm in the hard drive to come loose and put a huge scratch in the disk. I managed to recover about two-thirds of the data but the rest is gone. Jamie Ferguson, Scotland

Several years ago I was walking out of the office with a senior manager. He was trying to carry too much and his Compaq laptop, which wasn't even in a bag fell. It tumbled down half a dozen concrete steps going perfectly end over end. We picked it up and the screen was cracked, the keyboard had popped out and the case wrecked. We feared the worst but when we plugged in an external monitor and keyboard it booted up fine and all the data was recovered before the machine was sent for repair. A tribute to the build of the machine. Steve UK, UK

My mother was so infuriated that she couldn't get something to print, she proceeded to completely rip the keyboard and mouse out of the sockets and throw them out of the window. Brian, Scotland

I recently had a hard drive physically overheat and burn up on me taking more than 30 gigabytes of data with it - the solution? Dump the hard drive in a plastic bag and then into a bucket of ice to keep it cold enough to recover the data. This worked so well, the drive (which I had been told was "beyond saving" by an 'expert') provided me with all of the missing data and allowed me to make archive copies of it too once it was transferred to a good drive. Darren Gillett, United States

Story from BBC NEWS

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3193366.stm

• Answer the questions to the article:

1. What may cause loss of data on the computer?

2. What damage can be caused to the laptop by the owner? Why do such things happen?

3. How do people handle the loss of data?

4. What can be done to recover the data lost?

5. What should people do to avoid losing data on the computer?

6. Have you ever had a similar experience? Tell your story.

• Find a word or phrase in the text which, in context, is similar in meaning to:

1. ever more complicated

2. to make a book or a list using different pieces of information

3. failure to take care of smth or smb well

4. moving in an awkward way and tending to break things

5. victims or sufferers

6. feeling annoyed or angry being unable to do what you want to

7. likely to be affected or caused problems

8. respect, praise, compliment to

9. to get back smth that was lost or almost destroyed

• Summarize the text.