1. Практическое занятие № 42 «Виды альтернативной медицины» Alternative medicine Nowadays more and more people choose to be treated by methods of alternative medicine such as homeopathy, hypnotherapy and acupuncture. The question is whether these methods are safe and effective. Some people are convinced that alternative therapies are ineffective since they are not scientifically proven to work, while others insist on its effectiveness. In my opinion, complementary medicine has lots of benefits in treating some illnesses. Firstly, alternative medications are safer than many prescribed drugs since they are natural. Secondly, some methods do work much better than methods of conventional medicine. For instance, hypnotherapy helps many people to overcome insomnia or drug-addiction. Thirdly, alternative remedies have far less side effects. On the contrary, there are people who feel skeptical and mistrust complementary medicine since its methods are not scientifically based. However, experts say there is lots of anecdotal evidence that alternative medicine works wonders. In fact, more and more people instead of making an appointment with conventional doctors turn to alternative therapists and recover. If alternative remedies did not help, there would not be so many positive opinions among patients. Taking into consideration all mentioned above, I strongly believe that alternative medicine can be effective in treatment of many ailments. All in all, it is generally known that throughout recorded history, people used herbs and plants in healing and coped with lots of diseases. Then why could not we adopt their effective practices? Vocabulary: 1) alternative/complementary medicine – альтернативная, нетрадиционная медицина 2) homeopathy - гомеопатия 3) hypnotherapу — гипнотерапия, лечение гипнозом 4) acupuncture- акупунктура, иглотерапия, иглоукалывание 5) therapy - лечение, терапия 6) to treat - лечить 7) treatment - лечение 8) to prescribe — предписывать, назначать (лекарство) 9) insomnia - бессонница 10) side effects – побочные эффекты 11) to mistrust - не доверять 12) anecdotal evidence - случайные факты, разрозненные сведения; случаи из жизни 13) to work wonders - творить чудеса 14) to make an appointment (with) – записываться на прием 15) to recover поправляться, выздоравливать 16) remedy - cредство от болезни, лекарство, 17) ailment - нездоровье, недуг, недомогание 18) herb - трава, лекарственное растение 19) to adopt practices – перенимать опыт 20) to cope with — справляться 21) to heal - вылечивать, исцелять, заживлять Ex.1 Find in the text English words combinations: научно доказано, неподтвержденные данные, дополнительная медицина, эффективные методы, преодолеть бессонницу, твердо верю, обычный врач, научно обоснованный, предписанные лекарства, много положительных отзывов. Ех.2 Подготовить монологическое высказывание по теме Ех.3 Выберите to или for. I'm going to Spain_a holiday. You need a lot of experience_this job. We'll need more time make a decision. I went to the dentist_acheck-up. I had to put on my glasses_read the letter. Do you have to wear glasses_reading? I wish we had a garden_the children_play in. Ех. 3 Напишите предложения с so that. I hurried. I didn't want to be late. I wore warm clothes. I didn't want to be cold. I left Dave my phone number. I wanted him to be able to contact me. We whispered. We didn't want anybody else to hear our conversation. Please arrive early. We want to be able to start the meeting on time. Jennifer locked the door. She didn't want to be disturbed. I slowed down. I wanted the car behind me to be able to overtake.