Results of Interview
Results of Interview
Cultural Tips
When advising other people we should try to make it as open as possible. Most people don’t like to
be preached by others, especially Australian.
All Students Should Get A Drug-Free Education.
Task 14
Meet five of your classmates and ask them things and events when advising someone. Ask them the expressions they say when they advise them.
Report Sheet
Name
Student Number
Name Expressions
By the Way…
The illegal importation of drugs to Britain is a serious offence and can lead to heavy fines and impris- onment. The possession of any drug - such as opium, heroin, morphine, cocaine, cannabis, amphetamine (including Benzedrine), LSD and ecstasy - is illegal even for personal use in a private place. Supplying these drugs is a more serious offence; the police and customs officers are empowered to stop and search you, your vehicle and, on warrant, your home.
Taken from: www.eap.ucop.edu
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2. Read and Write
Task 15
Read the following text and then discuss the meanings of the following words according to the context. Then, answer the questions.
attendant conjunction punitive (ks) refractory undergo (kkt) withdrawal (kb)
The ‘Report’ of the New York Academy of Medicine agrees with the objective of stopping drug addiction and with the efforts at rehabilitation. It disapproves of the punitive approach and the fantastically brutal punishment. It proposes a more humane program as follows: 1. There should be a changed attitude toward the addict. He is a sick person, not a criminal. 2. The most effective way to get rid of drug addiction is to take the profit out of illegal drug traffic. The addict should be able to get his drugs at low cost under Federal control in conjunction with efforts to have him undergo withdrawal. 3. There should be medical supervision of existing addicts with strong efforts toward their rehabilitation. This would involve persuasion of the addict to go through treatment and rehabilitation, evaluation of the methods of treatment, and supervision of addicts who were unwilling or stubborn to treatment. 4. There should be no reduction in the efforts toward the elimination of the
supply of illegal drugs. Every effort should be made to arrest drug peddlers, wholesalers, and importers. While the addict should be considered as a sick person and treated appropriately, the nonaddict trafficker should feel the full punishment of the law. 5. By means of all educational media, radios, televisions, the press, lectures, books, and classrooms, there should be a concentrated effort to inform the public of the dangers attendant on the use of narcotic drugs. 6. Such a program would provide enough data relating to the number of addicts, the origin of individual usage, the number under treatment, the outcome of various forms of treatment, the number known to be unwilling to treatment, and similar information which is not now available. Such information would form a solid basis for better control, better rehabilitation, and better knowledge concerning the effect of narcotic addiction.
Taken from: Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2007. © 1993-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Questions
1. What is the text about?
2. What are the proposals or suggestions stated in the text?
3. What is the best title for the text?
Notes: The main purpose of the text is to propose the objective of stopping drug addiction and with
the efforts at rehabilitation. Remember that such writing is called analytical exposition. It proposes or suggests a certain topic which may only be pro or contra, not both. This type of writing consist of: Opinion/ proposal of something or what is usually called a thesis Reasons behind the proposal or argument or what is called argument Sometimes what has been discussed is also expressed again in the end of the text called
reiteration. It has the purpose of persuading the reader with its argument. It also explains how and why
the argument is proposed.
Task 16
Do the following crossword puzzle. Compare your answer with a classmate’s.
Across:
1. the business of buying goods in large quantities and selling them especially to retailers for resale
3. unpleasant physical condition which occurs when someone stops taking an addictive drug
5. somebody who traffics in something, especially illegal goods such as drugs or weapons Down:
2. which aims to punish
4. substance which affects the nerves, and which can be habit-forming
6. a dealer in something, especially illegal drugs
7. person who takes drugs as a habit
8. to suffer, to have something happen to you
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Task 17
Read the following text, find the meaning of the following words. Then, summarize the text, but be sure to include the suggestion, reason behind the suggestion, and the conclusion .
needle (kb)
encourage (kkt)
elderly (ks)
disabled (kb)
syringes (kb)
prescription (kb)
obtain (kkt)
cut down (kkt)
A needle exchange program would only encourage more people to use drugs, in my opinion, and many would still share needles or reuse needles even if there was a program.
Giving needles out for addicts to prevent the spread of disease, will only encourage them and others to do drugs more often. Furthermore, it may even encourage people who have never tried certain types of drugs, to try them because now they will get their needles for free. Do we really want to encourage this type of behavior? problem obtaining needles if they had the money.
I wouldn’t think so. Even though they did not need a prescription, Moreover, by giving needles to addicts, they still continued to reuse needles and share we are also taking away from other programs with others. Consequently, it is still helping that are already low on funding. The money lead to the AIDS epidemic. In the early 1990’s, for needle exchange would take away from states started requiring that syringes be kept Medicare programs that are there to help the behind the counter in drugstores and requiring elderly and disabled. There have already been prescriptions for syringes were needed. This enough Medicare cuts without the extra cuts was a way to cut down on illegal drug use and this would bring about.
reusing of needles. This was also an effort Then you also have the problem of to stop the further epidemic of aids. It has some who will not use the needles and will not worked either, but the answer to the drug keep reusing the needles they already have. problem and the spread of diseases through Most addicts are too far gone to worry about used needles is not to equip addicts tools with whether they reuse a needle or not, and many which to continue their illegal activities. do not care about their chances of catching an
We must spend the money that the needle infectious disease.
exchange program would cost in other areas to In the early 1980’s, insulin and allergy help stop the use of drugs altogether. syringes could be bought in any drug store