UNIT 6 - Урок 2 - Тексты для аудирования к рабочей тетради

Аудиозапись № 23

A Sweet Tooth

Cakes, chocolate, ice cream... the British love them all. A meal is not a full meal without some kind of dessert and sweet things are very popular as a snack too. Every shopping street has a baker’s shop selling bread and cakes, and newsagent’s shops usually sell chocolate and ice cream as well as newspapers.

Chocolate is the most popular sweet snack, and the British eat more than eight kilogrammes per person per year of it. Christopher Columbus, the Italian traveller who was born in 1451 and died in 1506, brought chocolate from Central America to Europe at the end of the 15th century. But people really began to eat it in Britain not earlier than the mid-nineteenth century. The Cadbury family began to make drinking chocolate in Birmingham in 1831. By 1878 they had 200 workers. They needed a bigger factory, so they bought some land and built a new one. They also built a whole village for the workers, which they called Bournville. By 1881 they were selling chocolate as far away as Australia, and by 1899 they had more than 2,600 workers.

People eat chocolate almost anywhere, anytime, but it becomes very popular at Christmas and Easter. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate... there are many kinds to choose from. You can buy British chocolate products all over the world.

Аудиозапись № 24

Dialogue

Helen: Hi, Betty. How are you? You look wonderful. They say you have become a vegetarian. Is that true?

Betty: Quite true. I’ve stopped eating meat for a number of different reasons.

Helen: Really? What are they?

Betty: Well, I think it is wrong to kill and eat animals, then it is too expensive or just not safe.

Helen: I know that there are several different kinds of vegetarians. Where do you belong?

Betty: Some vegetarians eat fish but no meat. There are those who eat eggs and dairy products — things which come from milk, like butter and cheese — but no meat, but I don’t eat any animal or anything which comes from an animal. So, no meat, no fish, no milk and no eggs.

Helen: Wow! But what do you eat then?

Betty: Lots of things — fruit, vegetables, nuts, bread, rice.

Helen: And do you think it is safe and good for your health?

Betty: I’m sure of it. People have been vegetarians all round the world for thousands of years, and in Britain the number has grown quite a lot recently. Besides, you know, some people have become ill and even died after eating unsafe food.

Helen: But any food could be bad or unsafe. Why do you think that people become ill after eating meat?

Betty: I’m not saying that. But meat and fish can easily become unsafe. Well, Helen, agree that vegetarian food is much safer. By the way about 5 per cent of people in Britain today do not eat any meat, about 10 per cent do not eat red meat, and most people say they eat less meat now than in the past.

Аудиозапись № 25

Length, patient, shoulder, recover, stomach, obese, prescribe, throat, earache, swallow, medicine, harmful, headache, almost, cure.

Аудиозапись № 26

a) Weakness, quickly, weigh, cough, enough, lung, sneeze, ankle, painful, knee, weight, freshness, stomach, hardly, wrist;

b) a sore throat, a heart attack, to prescribe a medicine, to catch a cold, to do somebody harm, junk food, to come down with a cold, a medicine for a weak heart, to recover from earache;

c) Has the doctor prescribed you anything for your earache? It really hurts me to swallow. Jack is recovering from a bad cold. Fast food can do a lot of harm to your health. They took Anna to hospital with stomachache. We hope you’ll recover soon. If you have toothache, go to your dentist. Jill tries to control her weight. Take this medicine for your cough. What can cure him of this disease?