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Ex.1. Transcribe the given words.



to protect – захищати

frontier– кордон

chronicles – літопис

remnants– останки

Cathedral of the Transfiguration – Собор Преображенський

public gardens – сквери

arboreta – дендрарії

freighter – грузове судно

oil-refining – нафтопереробний

highway – автострада

 

Ex. 2. Answer the following questions.

a) What is the geographical position of Kherson?

b) When was it founded and first mentioned in the chronicles?

c) What are the cities museums and theatres?

d) Is it a green city? Why do you think so?

e) What can you say about the population of the city?

 

Робота з текстом за професійним спрямуванням.

Ex. 1. Read and translate the text. Make a vocabulary.

 

Drugs

More people are abusing drugs today than in any other time in history of mankind, and many of those people are youth.

Understanding what drugs are is fundamental for understanding their potential abuse. Drugs are a psychoactive substance.

A psychoactive substance is something that people take to change the way they feel, think or behave. Some of these substances are called drugs and others, like alcohol and tobacco, are considered dangerous, but are not called drugs. The term drug also covers a number of substances that must be used under medical supervision to treat illnesses.

I am going to talk about drugs as those man-made or naturally occurring substances used without medical supervision, basically to change the way a person feels, thinks or behaves.

In the past, most drugs were made from plants. That is, plants were grown and then converted into drugs such as coca paste, opium and marijuana. Over the years, these crude products were further processed to drugs like cocaine and heroin and finally, in the 20th century, people found out how to make drugs from chemicals.

These are called man-made or synthetic drugs and include ecstasy, LSD, etc. These were initially manufactured for largely experimental reasons and only later were used for recreational purposes. Now, however, with the increased size and scope of the drug trade, people set out to invent drugs especially for human consumption.

For the first time in human history, a whole industrial complex creates and produces drugs that are meant to be used for the sole purpose of «having fun.» People use drugs just to escape the reality, to have fun. The majority of them are young, even very young, who do not understand what might happen to them because of drugs.

 

Vocabulary:

to abuse — зловживати

drugs— наркотики

mankind — людство

youth— молодь

substance — речовина

to behave — поводитися, поступати, триматися

to consider — думати, вважати

dangerous — небезпечний

to cover — включати, містити

supervision— лікування, припис

to treat — лікувати

illness— хвороба

plants — рослини

crude— сирий

to find (past found, p.p. found) out — знайти, винайти

ecstasy — екстазі (наркотик, що викликає почуття ейфорії, широко вживаний на дискотеках)

LSD — скор. від lysergic acid diethylamide ЛСД (наркотик, що викликає галюцинації)

initially — у початковій стадії, спочатку

recreational— розважальний, такий, що відноситься до сфери розваг, відпочинку

purpose — призначення, намір, мета

to invent — винайти

consumption — споживання

to escape — йти від реальності, відключатися

majority — більшість

 

Questions:

1. What is fundamental to understand the essence of drugs?

2. What are drugs?

3. What is a psychoactive substance?

4. What kind of drugs do you know?

5. What naturally occurring drugs do you know?

 







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