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Debate
16. Read the following ideas. Which ideas do you think are for and which are against
animal testing? Put the ideas in the correct groups.
1. new vaccines against fatal diseases
2. allergic reactions to cosmetics
3. medical experiments on humans
4. the treatment of laboratory animals
5. the life of a person or the life of an animal
6. cost considerations
7. learning more about human anatomy
8. using animals for food, clothing, etc.

For Against

Try to add a few more ideas of your own to each group. Prepare arguments to support your
views. (E.g. Animal testing is immoral and unnecessary, and it should be banned.)

UNIT 15
1. Read the following text, translate it into Ukrainian.
The Weather Forecast
George got hold of the paper, and read us out the forecast, which prophesied “rain,
cold, wet to fine” (whatever that may be), “occasional local thunder-storms, east wind, with
general depression over the Midland Counties (London and the Channel) bar. Falling”.
Of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness, this “weather forecast” fraud is about the
most aggravating. It “forecasts” precisely what happened yesterday or the day before, and
precisely the opposite of what is going to happen today.
I remember a holiday of mine being completely ruined one late autumn by our paying
attention to the weather report of the local newspaper. “Heavy showers with thunder-storms
may be expected today”, it would say on Monday, and so we would give up our picnic and
stop indoors all day, waiting for the rain. And people would pass the house, going off as
jolly and merry as could be, the sun shining out, and not a cloud to be seen.
“Ah!” we said, as we stood looking out at them through the window, “won’t they
come home soaked!” And we chuckled to think how wet they were going to get. By twelve
o’clock, with the sun pouring into the room, the heat became quite oppressive, and we
wondered when those heavy showers and occasional thunder-storms were going to begin.
“Ah! They’ll come in the afternoon, you’ll find”, we said to each other. “Oh, won’t
those people get wet. What a lark!” And when the afternoon was almost gone, and still
there was no sign of rain, we tried to cheer ourselves up with the idea that it would come
down all at once, just as the people had started for home, and were out of the reach of any
shelter, and that they would thus get more drenched than ever. But not a drop of rain ever
fell...
The next day we would read that it was going to be a “Warm, fine day; much heat”;
and we would dress ourselves in flimsy things, and go out, and half and hour after we had
started, it would commence to rain hard, and a bitterly cold wind would spring up, and both
would keep on steadily for the whole day, and we would come home with colds and
rheumatism, and go to bed.
The weather is a thing that is beyond me altogether. I never can understand it. George
said it was evident we were going to have a prolonged spell of grand weather some time.
(After Jerome K.Jerome)

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