Unit 9: BRITISH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Most of the time we feel well. We can play sports, go to work and enjoy our lives. But sometimes we just don't feel well. What happens then?
Some people have medical insurance but most people can't afford it and rely on the National Health Service, the NHS. This is provided by the government in Britain.
You can get a prescription from a doctor. Doctors work in surgeries or health centres. The doctor examines you first to find out what's wrong. Then they can write you a prescription for medicine to cure you.

If you can't get to a doctor, there are two other NHS services you could try. The first is NHS Direct. This is a phone service where a trained nurse will suggest the best way to treat you.
Doctors and medical staff can cure lots of illnesses now using surgery and treatment with drugs

Hopefully these treatments won't be necessary. The best way to avoid getting ill is to have a healthy diet, get lots of exercise end take good care of yourself. You should't then need to use the healthcare system at all!

Unit 8: Computers in our lives

The computers
Computers are a very important part of our lives. They tell us about delays to transport. They drive trains, analyse evidence and control buildings. Did you know that 60% of homes in Britain have got a PC?
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem.
In our live are very important the computers because are in libraries, in the police station and in the school.
Smart home
The smart home is now a real possibility. It will become very common. A central computer will adjust the temperature, act as a burglar alarm and switch on lights ready for you to come back home. If the temperature outside changes, the smart home will adjust temperatures levels inside. The computer will also close the blinds when it gets dark or to stop too much sun from entering a room. And if you want to eat when you get home, the computer will turn the oven on for you!
I had a computer when I was 10
In a survey, 44 per cent of young people between 11 and 16 said their PC was a trusted friend. Twenty per cent said they were happier at their a computer than spending time with family or friends.

Transport

Exploring Mars is going to be very exciting, but for now, it's easier to explore our own planet! In a particular

We're going to follow Freddie as he explores all the different kinds of transport in London. He's a television researcher and he starts out from his home on his bicycle.He laves his bike at the station and gets on a train. 1.8 million people travel into the centre of London by train every day.

The next part of Freddie's journey is on another kind of train called the Docklands Light Railway. For many people the journey by train takes them to a convenient Underground station.
Freddie catches a bus for the last part of his journey, London has now got double-length buses- called "bendy buses".

People use lots of other forms of transport in London. Some people use boats on the River Thames to go to work. There is one kind of transport that isn't very good in London - and that's the car. They move slowly because there is too much traffic.
So that was today. What's Freddie doing tomorrow? He's doing the same journey all over again to find out more.

Unit 6: Shipping in Britain

Britain has a very important history of ships and the sea. The British Navy was the biggest navy in the world at one time. In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history. It's got several ships in he docks outside.
Between 1830 and 1930 more than nine million people from all over Europe left from the cort of Liverpool to start a new life in America or Australia.The most famous ship was probably the Titanic. It sank in 1912 and 1,500 people drowned. It was the worst disaster in maritime history.

Other famous ship was the Queen Mary 2, which crosses the Atlantic from Southampton to New York. These containers, are packed with clothes, television sets, computers furniture and toys. Here at theat the Southampton Container Terminal (S.C.T) they unload more than one and a half million containers each year. So the sea still plays a very important part in life in Britain.

Titanic was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, in the UK, and designed to compete with the rival Cunard Line's Lusitania and Mauretania. Were intended to be the largest, most luxurious ships ever to operate. The designers were Lord Pirrie, a director of both Harland and Wolff and White Star, naval architect Thomas Andrews, Harland and Wolff's construction manager and head of their design departmen. Carlisle's responsibilities included the decorations, the equipment and all general arrangements, including the implementation of an efficient lifeboat davit design. Carlisle would leave the project in 1910, before the ships were launched, when he became a shareholder in Welin Davit & Engineering Company Ltd, the firm making the davits.

Unit 5: British horror histories

-People like to be scared. They love reading horror stories and watching horror movies. The first horror story was published by an English writer: Mary Shelley in 1818 - Frankenstein.
The other horror story was Dracula, created in 1897 by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. Dracula contra Frankenstein was made by the Spanish director Jesús Franco in 1970.

-Bram Stoker got the idea for Dracula while he was sitting in Highgate Cemetery in North London.
Dracula is so popular that visitor to London can go on a guided Dracula tour. The tours usually take place just when it's getting dark...

Dracula: Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the Gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of letters, diary entries, ships' logs, etc.

Frankenstein: Frankenstein, is a novel written by Mary Shelley. The novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France.

My opinion: Dracula and Frankenstein doesn't fear for me, but their films I think that's great.

Summary of unit 4: Law

Scotland Yard is often used as a metonymy the Metropolitan police service of London, UK. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became the public entrance to the police station.
The most famous police station in Britain is New Scotland Yard in London, but there are police stations all over the country. They've all got a blue light outside to show they are police stations. We visited a new police station in Lewisham. A suspected a criminal is being charged with a crime.
Suspects can be kept in the cells at the police station for several hours. This suspect spent a whole night in the cells.
Next day he went to court. Here three magistrates listen to evicence from the police and witnesses.
The police are the most obvious part of the law in Britain. Their job is to make sure that people don't break the law and to catch them when they do. Forensic scientists provide the evidence that helps the courts decide whether a suspect is guilty of a crime or not. The courts then decide on the sentence.

Summary unit 3: Supermarket

A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments. It is larger in size and has a wider selection than a traditional grocery store, also selling items typically found in a convenience store. Supermarkets are an important part of daily life in Britain. The five biggest supermarkets sell 80% of all groceries. Tesco is the biggest he sell food, drinks, clothes, sport...

In the large supermarkets you can buy just about anything. And while they are there with their car, customers can buy petrol too. There are many more supermarkets now than 20 years ago. A lot of people now use online shopping. It's becoming a very popular way to shop.

But not everyone likes supermarkets. Small shops in towns and villages are closing because supermarkets can sell the same things cheaper. Many supermarkets are open 24 hours a day and seven days a week. But not on Sundays when shops can only open for five hours. That's enough for most people! But you can still shop online.

Summary unit 2: Soap operas in Britain

The most popular soap operas in British are Eastenders and Coronation Street. These are popular dramas about the live of ordinary people. There are three or five episodes each week. Many people are addicted to soap operas. And they buy a soap opera magazine and they can read the preview of the next week.

Eastenders is set in the east end of London and has been broadcast since 1985. Coronation Street is based in Manchester and it is the oldest soap. It was first broadcast in 1960. Then there's also Emmerdale witch takes the place in the village in the Yorkshire countryside. It started in 1972 and is on TV every evening from Monday to Friday.

I think the soap operas are good but sometimes are boring because the story it's so large.

Summary unit 1: Scotland

There are four regions in Britain- England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.Today we will study Scotland.
Scotland coupes one third of the land area of Britain but has got only nine per cent of the population in the country.So there's a plenty of space. The majority of Scottish people live in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The Scottish govern are independent for the rest of the country. It had a diferent education and different parliament.
Scotland are a independent nation for the rest of the country because it had their traditions. For special ocations Scottish people wear kilts and they play some strange games.
Scotland lives for the Tourists and the whisky. Some people go to Scotland to climb mountains and fishing. I thing go to Scotland will be good because it had a lot's of mountains.