Answer the following questions

Personality test

1. How often do you eat fruit and vegetables?

a) every day

b) never

c) two or three times a week

 

2. Look at this list of food and drink. How many do you eat in a day?

Ice-cream

Fizzy drinks

Sweets

Chips

Extra salt on your food

Extra sugar on your food or in a drink

Take-away food (hamburgers, pizzas)

a) more than two

b) one or two

c) none

 

3. When you have a problem, do you

a) forget about it?

b) talk to a parent, a teacher or a friend about it?

c) wait, and then talk to a friend later?

 

4. Do you play a sport or go to a dance class?

a) once a week or more?

b) two or three times a month?

c) once a month?

 

5. When you have free time, do you

a) watch TV?

b) go to the swimming-pool with friends?

c) take serious exercises?

 

6. Do you live

a) in the town?

b) in the country?

 

7. Do you sleep

a) more than eight hours a night?

b) less than eight hours a night?

 

8. Your friends live on the third floor of a block of flats. Do you

a) walk up the stairs when you visit them?

b) take the lift when you visit them?

 

9. When you are in a hurry, do you

a) still remember to eat good meals?

b) miss a meal, but eat a packet of chips or chocolate?

 

10. Are you going to smoke when you are an adult?

a) yes

b) no

Now, add up your points and study the analysis. If you follow the given advice, you’ll be able to get healthy.

	a	b	c
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

5 – 12 Points: You are not going to live to 100 without good food and exercise. You must eat more fruit and vegetables. You must also take more exercise. It's fun to be fit!

13—24 points: Not bad... do the same things, but do them more often. Try to eat more fresh vegetables and swim once a week all the year round.

25—30 points: You do all the right things. You're going to live to 100.

 

Translate the following words and word combinations without a dictionary.

I am ill; I am well; I am sick; I am sea-sick; I am air- sick; to feel bad; to feel ill; to feel well; to fall ill; headache; toothache; stomachache; temperature; to take smb’s temperature; cough; throat; pulse; to examine; a heart; lungs; to diagnose; to prescribe; medicine; mustard plasters; honey; raspberry; prescription; until your temperature is normal; until you stop coughing; to fall ill with the flu; to go to the chemist’s; a tablet for headache; to gargle; hurt; symptoms; pills, the doctor’s consulting room; to go to the polyclinic.

Match the words and phrases on list A with their synonyms on list B.

A. 1. medicine; 2. to cure of; 3. to catch an illness; 4. to undergo an operation; 5. chemist’s; 6. tablets; 7. pharmacist; 8. hospital; 9. illness; 10. to prescribe; 11. high temperature; 12. treatment; 13. to recover; 14. pain; 15. ward.

B. 1. to be operated on; 2. to write out a prescription; 3. disease; 4. remedy; 5. to treat; 6. policlinic; 7. fever; 8. drug-store; 9. ache; 10. peels; 11. cure for; 12. room; 13. to get better; 14. to catch a cold. 15. chemist.

Read these words. They will help you to understand the text.

­ to suffer – страждати

­ disorder – розлад

­ indispensable – необхідний

­ pores – пори

­ cell – клітина

­ blood vessels – кров’яні судини

­ to comb – розчісуватися

­ coarse – неохайний

­ to mend – штопати, латати

­ to disuse – не використовувати

­ invigorate – зміцнювати

­ to exhaust – виснажувати

­ intemperance – зловживання

­ nervous breakdown – нервовий розлад

­ incurable – невиліковний

 

Read and translate the text.

THE LAWS OF HEALTH

One of the first duties we owe to ourselves is to keep our bodies in perfect health. If our body suffers from any disorder, our mind suffers with it, and we are unable to make much progress in knowledge, and we are unfit to perform those duties which are required of us in social life.

There are certain laws of health which deserve particular attention, and they are so simple that even a child can learn them. A constant supply of pure fresh air is indispensable to good health. To secure this, nothing impure should remain either within or near our homes, and every room in the house especially the bedrooms, should be properly ventilated every day.

Perfect cleanliness is also essential. The whole body should be washed as often as possible. The skin is full of minute pores, cells, blood vessels and nerves. It "breathes" the way the lungs do. Therefore it should always be clean.

Besides its importance to health, there is a great charm in cleanliness. We like to look at one who is tidy and clean. If the skin is kept clean, the teeth thoroughly brushed, the hair neatly combed, and the finger-nails in order, we feel pleased with the person, even though his (her) clothes may be coarse and much mended.

A certain amount of exercise is necessary to keep the body in perfect condition. All the powers (mental and bodily) we possess are strengthened by use and weakened by disuse. Therefore labour and study should succeed each other. The best way of getting exercise is to engage in some work that is useful and at the same time interesting to the mind. It is most essential for the old and the young to do morning exercises with the windows wide open in your room or, if possible, in the open air.

Remember that exercises warm, invigorate and purify the body. Rest is also necessary to the health of both body and mind.

The best time for sleep is during the darkness and stillness of the night.

Late hours are very harmful to the health as they exhaust the nervous system. We should go to bed early and get up early. It is a good rule to "rise with the lark and go to bed with the lark".

Most essential to our body is food. Our body is continually wasting, and requires to be repaired by fresh substance. Therefore food, which is to repair the loss, should be taken with due regard to the exercise and waste of the body.

Be moderate in eating. If you eat slowly, you will not overeat. Never swallow your food wholesale - you are provided with teeth for the purpose of chewing your food - and you will never complain of indigestion. We should abstain from everything that intoxicates. The evils of intemperance, especially of alcohol, are too well known.

Intemperance excites bad passions and leads to quarrels and crimes. Alcohol costs a lot of money, which might be used for better purposes. The mind is stupefied by drink and the person who drinks will, in course of time, become unfit for his duties. Both health and character are often ruined.

Thus we must remember that moderation in eating and drinking, reasonable hours of labour and study, regularity in exercise, recreation and rest, cleanliness and many other essentials lay the foundations for good health and long life.

Is there anything more important than health? We rather doubt it. If your body suffers from any disorder your mind suffers with the body, too. You can't be good either at work or at studies. Aches and pains lead to irritation, nervous breakdown, exhaustions and apathy.

Doctors treat patients. If you have a headache, toothache, back-ache, stomachache or earache, if you have a sore throat, eye or finger, if you feel pain in any part of your body, if it hurts you to move - you need help. First of all you ought to turn to your physician.

The doctor will examine you carefully: feel your pulse, sound your chest, heart and lungs, test your blood pressure. The only thing you have to do is to follow his directions. Otherwise a slight ailment can develop into an incurable malady.

Answer the following questions.

1. What is the first duty to ourselves?

2. What is indispensable to good health?

3. What is essential for our body?

4. Are exercises necessary for our health? Why?

5. What is very harmful for our health? Why?

6. What is the role of food?

7. What are the consequences of intemperance?

8. Is there anything more important than health? Prove your opinion.

9. What is the role of doctors in our lives?