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| 1) Сохранить любой ценой | a) |
| 2) Принять закон | b) |
| 3) Выписать смертельное лекарство | c) |
| 4) Обширные политические споры | d) |
| 5) Выступать в защиту | e) |
| 6) согласие/воля человека | f) |
| 7) оправданный/позволительный | g) |
| 8) испытывать сильную боль и страдания | h) |
| 9) в основе этих аргументов | i) |
| 10) ценность человеческой жизни | j) |
| Over to you |
Work in groups and take the roles of people for or against euthanasia. Try and find answers to the questions
1. What are the various methods used to euthanize the terminally ill?
2. Does euthanasia always ensure a painless, dignified death?
3. Doesn’t modern medicine keep people alive who would have died in the past?
4. When will the euthanasia controversy be settled?
5. Prepare a presentation on the topic being discussed.
| Vocabulary |
1. Match the words with their definitions and write the transcription of the words in column 2. Translate the words in column 1 into Russian:
| 1) vivisection (n.) | a) any unwanted therapeutic effect caused by a drug | |
| 2) benefit (v.) | b) to work out | |
| 3) cure (n.) | c) causing pain or suffering | |
| 4) chemotherapy (n.) | d) a colorless viscous liquid alkaloid extracted from certain plants, such as henbane, used in preventing travel sickness and as anticholinergic, sedative and truth serum | |
| 5) rely on (v.) | e) analgesic drug or agent | |
| 6) support (v.) | f) the act or practice of performing experiments o living animals involving cutting into or dissecting the body | |
| 7) devise (v.) | g) the weakly acidic extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide | |
| 8) cruel (adj.) | h) treatment of disease, esp cancer, by means of chemical agents | |
| 9) painkiller (n.) | i) to give aid, approval, or courage to | |
| 10) side effect (n.) | j) to put trust (in); be sure (of) | |
| 11) scopolamine (n.) | k) any course of medical therapy, esp one proved effective in combating a disease | |
| 12) prussic acid (n.) | l) to do or receive good; profit |
| Before you read |
You are going to read an interview with Professor Anna Wright from Queen Margaret Hospital and Peter Savage of the Free the Animals Movement giving their opinion on vivisection. Before you read express your opinion on the following:
1. Research which involves live animals should be banned. How far do you agree with this view?
2. What is wrong with the experimenting on animals?
3. If animal experimentation is of such questionable value, why does it persist?
