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6.Listen to the text ”Vegetarians”. Translate it sentence by sentence. Discuss
it.
(From L.V.Sinko)
Vegetarians

The word ”vegetarian” was coined in about 1840 to mean people
who lived without killing for food, either for moral or health reasons, or
both. But the practice is much older than that. Greek philosophers
recommended vegetarianism and famous people who practised it in the
past include Leonardo da Vinci, Tolstoy and Voltaire Milton and
Bernard Shaw. Surely this proves that mental activity does not depend
on flesh foods. What are the arguments that might stop us from eating
meat?
Man's body is more like those of fruit-eating animals than like
those of flesh-eating animals. For millions of years man must have lived
on fruit, nuts and leaves and so developed a digestive system. Perhaps
the more we move away from this diet towards meat-eating the less
likely we are to be healthy. Cancer, tuberculosis and heart disease are
certainly more common in meat-eating communities. Man may have
started eating the flesh of animals during the Ice Age when most of the
vegetation was destroyed.
A diet of vegetables, fruit, grains and nuts together with a few
dairy products can give us all the vitamins and minerals we need. By
eating meat we are getting the basic food elements secondhand after they
have been digested by the animal. It is worth considering how wasteful
meat-eaters are with land. A meat–eater needs about three times as much
land to support himself and his animals as vegetarian does.

7.Listen to the following jokes and render them.

1
Two fat men are discussing various slimming diets.
”My wife has told me”, says one of them, ”that the best way is to
cut out potatoes and cakes. I've tried it only to put on five pounds of
weight.”
”Then try my diet,” says the other, ”It's an onion diet, I've
lost five pounds and twenty-five friends.”
2
Cannibal Cook: Shall I stew both those cooks we captured from
the steamer?
Cannibal King: No, one is enough. Too many cooks spoil the

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