The National Health Service in Different Countries

Рейтинг стран с лучшей системой здравоохранения

1. Великобритания

2. Швейцария

3. Швеция

4. Австралия

5. Германия и Королевство Нидерланды

6. Новая Зеландия и Норвегия

7. Франция

8. Канада

9. США

Task 7. Answer the following questions:

1. How do improvements in health care influence on the population in Great Britain?

2. What is the average age of people in Great Britain?

3. What health problems do people have in Great Britain?

4. What does the National Health Service provide to population?

5. What groups of population can get assistance from the government in Great Britain?

6. What are the good points of NHS?

7. What are the weak points of NHS?

Task 8. Translate into English.

1. Уровень жизни вырос с 68 лет до 71,8 года у мужчин и с 73,9 лет до 77,7 лет для женщин.

2. Заболевания сердца и рак – наиболее часто встречающиеся причины смерти у мужчин пятидесятилетнего возраста.

3. Национальная служба здравоохранения обеспечивает комплексными медицинскими услугами всех жителей Англии.

4. Социальное обслуживание направлено на детей и подростков, малообеспеченные семьи, безработных, инвалидов, душевно больных и престарелых людей.

5. Национальная страховая программа страхует граждан от утраты дохода при потере работы, уходе за ребенком и долгосрочной болезни.

6. Служба здравоохранения предоставляет широкий спектр услуг в области медицины, подавляющее большинство из которых являются бесплатными для жителей Великобритании.

7. Национальная служба здравоохранения является общим названием для четырех государственных медицинских систем в Соединенном Королевстве.

8. Система здравоохранения в основном финансируется за счёт налоговых поступлений, а не системы медицинского страхования.

 

Task 10. Tell in short about the economic situation of Great Britain.

 

 

Тема 6. ЖИЗНЬ ПРОСТЫХ БРИТАНЦЕВ

LIFE OF ORDINARY PEOPLE IN GREAT BRITAIN

Task 1. Learn the following words and word combinations:

1.	divorce	развод
2.	to increase	увеличиваться
3.	contemporary	современный
4.	responsibility	ответственность
5.	temporarily	временно
6.	substantial	существенный, большой
7.	view	вид, взгляд
8.	to cohabit	сожительствовать
9.	release	освобождение
10.	burden	бремя
11.	scattered	рассеянный
12.	reunions	воссоединение
13.	joyous	радостный
14.	consent	согласие
15.	urban	городской
16.	to cope	справляться
17.	landlord	землевладелец
18.	local council	местный совет
19.	housing association	жилищная ассоциация
20.	loan	ссуда
21.	mortgage	ипотека
22.	repay	возмещать
23.	maisonette	двухэтажная квартира
24.	presbyterian	пресвитерианская
25.	to approve	одобрять
26.	local authority	местная власть
27.	housebound	прикованый к дому
28.	agoraphobic	агорофоб
29.	to detain	задерживать
30.	civil wedding ceremony	гражданская свадебная церемония
31.	bride	невеста
32.	bridegroom	жених
33.	banns	имена вступающих в брак
34.	best man	шафер
35.	bridesmaid	подружка невесты
36.	pageboys	мальчик паж
37.	top hat	шляпа цилиндр
38.	tie	галстук
39.	tiers	ярус
40.	to release	освобождать

Task 2. Read and translate the text.

British Families

The family institution in Britain is changing. The typical British family headed by two parents has undergone substantial changes during the twentieth century. In particular there has been a rise in the number of single-person, which increased from 18 to 29 per cent of all households between 1971 and 2012. By the year 2020, it is estimated that there will be more single people than married people. Fifty years ago this would have been socially unacceptable in Britain.

In the past, people got married and stayed married. Divorce was very difficult, expensive and took a long time. Today, people's views on marriage are changing. Many couples, mostly in their twenties or thirties, live together (cohabit) without getting married. Only about 60% of these couples will eventually get married.

In the past, people married before they had children, but now about 50% of children in Britain are born to unmarried (cohabiting) parents. In 2012, around a quarter of unmarried people between the ages of 16 and 59 were cohabiting in Great Britain. Cohabiting couples are also starting families without first being married. Before 1960 this was very unusual, but in 2012 around 30 per cent of births in the UK were to cohabiting couples.

People are generally getting married at a later age now and many women do not want to have children immediately. They prefer to concentrate on their jobs and put off having a baby until late thirties.

The number of single-parent families is increasing. This is mainly due to more marriages ending in divorce, but some women are also choosing to have children as lone parents without being married. The trend nowadays is to marry later. Many couples are living together first for all sorts of reasons such as finance.