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II. LISTENING
Holistic Medicine
Pre-listening
1.What do you know about the following alternative approaches to medicine?
- herbalism
- homeopathy
- osteopathy
- faith healing
- acupuncture
- holistic medicine
You are about to be informed about holistic medicine one type of alternative therapies.
Read the list of items that are supposed to be taken into consideration by all doctors. For each item write or WM if you consider it to be taken into consideration by representatives of western medicine or AT if you consider it to be taken into consideration by representatives of alternative therapies. The first one is done for you.
| to treat patient as a series of parts that are all isolated | WM | |
| to remove the symptoms until everything’s working well again | ||
| to treat the symptoms and not the cause of an illness | ||
| to take into account not only the symptoms, but also the age, habits, emotions and life-style of the individual | ||
| to try to build the overall picture of the patient | ||
| to have a balance, or a harmony, between your mind and your body | ||
| to prevent illness | ||
| a good diet, with lots of fresh food, not processed food with its preservatives and chemicals | ||
| a healthy life-style, without too much pressure and worry | ||
| to do lots of exercise and rest, not too much, not too little |
While-listening
1. Now listen to the radio programme about holistic medicine and complete the chart with some of the differences between western and holistic medicine:
| Western Medicine | Holistic Medicine | |
After-listening
Answer the questions
1. What are the 3 success stories discussed on the programme? What were the patients suffering from?
2. What is the system that Glenna Gillingham is trying to set up?
3. Do you agree with Glenna Gillingham’s statment that we are becoming more health conscious?
III. READING
Before-reading
Look at the title of the article and try to predict what it will be about.
The following words all appear in the article. Match each one with its correct definition on the right and after reading the article check the rightness of your matching.
| 1. to giggle | a) to reduce or lessen pain or some other unpleasant feeling |
| 2. to monitor | b) funny, amusing |
| 3. to relieve | c) what the body uses to defend itself against things that enter it and cause disease |
| 4. research | d) the treatment of illnesses of the mind or body without drugs or operations |
| 5. humorous | e) to watch, listen to or examine what is happening |
| 6. to stimulate | f) to make something more active or develop more quickly |
| 7. immune system | g) to laugh in a silly, childish way |
| 8. therapy | h) detailed study of a subject to find out something new |
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