READING COMPREHENSION: ACUPUNCTURE

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LISTENING COMPREHENSION: INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

 True or False? Justify your answers 

1. Integrative medicine is a combination of traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine. 
2. At medical school, professors show you some alternative and complementary medical practice. 
3. Dr McCAnn thinks a doctor needs to treat patients with either conventional or alternative medicine. 
4. According to alternative medicine, the human being can heal himself. 
5. Patients of integrative medicine are willing to take an active role in their healing process. 
6. Some patients of integrative medicine are not ill at all. 
7. Dr McCAnn believes integrative medicine is here to stay.

HEALTH AND ILLNESS VOCABULARY

COSMETIC SURGERY: PROS AND CONS

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ASPECT ISN'T EVERYTHING

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE QUEEN DIES?

100 YEARS OF FASHION (USED TO/GET USED TO)

People used to be more elegant in the past
People used to have less stress in the past
People used to be more respectful in the past
People used to treat women better in the past
People used to have more money in the past

People are getting used to dressing in a more casual way nowadays
People are getting used to having stress nowadays
People are getting used to being more casual nowadays
People are getting used to treating women more respectfully nowadays
People are getting used to having less money nowadays

HOW OLD IS TOO OLD TO DRIVE A CAR?

NOTHING SUITS ME LIKE A SUIT

When you are 70, how do you see yourself?

Warning When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth. I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick flowers in other people's gardens And learn to spit. You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat And eat three pounds of sausages at a go Or only bread and pickle for a week And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes. But now we must have clothes that keep us dry And pay our rent and not swear in the street And set a good example for the children. We must have friends to dinner and read the papers. But maybe I ought to practice a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE?

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GIVING OPINIONS AND DEBATING

PRONOUNCIATION IS IMPORTANT

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