Talk about the business of teaching English to foreigners in England (“An English Language Teacher in Bath”).

During reading of the story "An English Language Teacher in Bath” we see that the author had used two different language features in the text. The first one is the language of description. Bath which is located in the county of Somerset is a very popular destination for tourists in the England and from all over the world. Bath boasts some of the most spectacular architectural buildings and sights in the world. As author notices "Bath like Venice and other beautiful cities, was a little like a museum."

So in this story Nick McLiver who writes articles "about people who work in every day jobs in various parts of Britain" visits Julian Gobdard, an English language teacher, who works in "fairly small school." And here author uses the second feature - the language of conversation from which we can understand what is the business of teaching English to foreigners in England.

So this is a very big and popular business. From different countries come students for training of foreign language. Also, there are summer programs for students who just can come in the summer. In addition to studying the schools do summer camps and other activities for students. There are also programs for adults who come for holidays or live here and work for local companies. In this case, for the teacher is enough to know just English. As Julian Gobdard notices, today teaching English in schools has improved, and when people come to his school, they already have a sufficient level of English "to communicate to a certain extent". If he would even know two or three languages, it would not help him much, because in a group can be "Swedes, an Italian, a Spaniard, a Japanese, a Russian and a Hungarian."

The main point is if you want to learn English well, you need to find as more ways as possible for study like radio, TV, books and what is more important to be not afraid to talk.

There are sometimes events in childhood that may cause unpleasant or sad memories. Prove or disprove this statement relying on the story “Snowdrops». Recall a similar experience from your or someone else’s childhood.

Children live in some other kind of world than adults. Everything is much simpler there, there much less difficulties, there are no so much responsibility. All the things seem to be different for them, I mean children are not aware yet of all the life as it is. But living alongside with adults, they may get a vision of real adult’s life just before they step in it themselves. Particularly, speaking about children’s attitude to teachers, we can say that children, especially small ones, look at them with great appreciation. They think that their teacher would not forget about them and would be the best one whatever happens.In the story “Snowdrops” we see that a young hero doesn’t notice that his teacher looks different because of her close friend’s death. He doesn’t notice that his teacher’s voice has become different and her appearance has changed by the influence of the tragedy which has stroke her. In such a situation children usually don’t notice all the changes. And that’s a lot because of the efforts of the teacher who shouldn’t show his real feelings and stay sturdy and fulfill his duties, because he has a responsibility as a teacher and doesn’t have to display his real emotions. But some events give children an evidence of the real picture of the adult’s world. Thus, the hero of “Snowdrops” compares a minute, fragile flower to his teacher. He sees flowers blow in a sudden gust of the cold wind and straighten again and he sees his teacher crying. By comparing thistwo creatures he can find them very much in common.

When I studied at the third form, our teacher was offered a vacancy in a more high-status school, where her job was better well-paid and she had better career prospects. We all knew why she had left us in the middle of the term and it made us understand that in spite of the teacher commitment to her pupils and her love to her job in general, money does matter.

Compare different attitudes to women’s employment in medicine in the 19th century and nowadays (“A Letter”).

Honestly, before reading this story it had never occurred to me that in the 19th century women's employment in medicine was considered to be impossible. As men thought women couldn’t become equally educated physicians. In other words, the idea of a woman doctor was felt to be immoral and shocking at that time.

That’s why I can’t help admiring the main heroine (Elizabeth), who managed to become the first woman to gain the degree in modern medicine in the USA.

The reason why she decided to apply for a medical course was a very painful disease requiring surgical invention of a very good friend of her family. Although the thought of following a medical career was so utterly repugnant to her, Elizabeth couldn't refuse her friend's request.

At that time when a medical care was suggested to her she was experiencing an unusually strong struggle between attraction towards a highly educated man with whom she had been very intimately thrown, but his views were too narrow and rigid, I guess he couldn't accept her choice. That's why she had to sacrifice her love. But she saved a bunch of flowers that reminded her of him...

Centuries have passed. Women's employment in medicine is no longer considered to be immoral and, what is more, it has become a women dominated profession. So, women have proved that they deserve much more rights in our modern society.

What do you know about different methods of combating infectious diseases in the past and at the present time? (“Smallpox - Epitaph for a Killer”, “AIDS Hysteria”)

Due to the development of medicine and rapid technological progress nowadays it has become possible to cure many serious diseases that used to be fatal.

In the past people used different methods of combating highly contagious diseases.

Smallpox, for example. Suspicion, fear and hostility have long thwarted attempts to control it. In 1885 affected children were forcibly removed from their parents and placed in isolation. For thousands of years smallpox, an accepted fact of life that killed millions and often blinded and disfigured survivors, was dreaded as plague or cholera.

Many laws were introduced to cope with epidemics, which were terribly cruel and ineffective. For.e'x., they used force to remove people infected with plague, made plague barriers, used fires to purify public places or attacked and persecuted immigrants.

Over the centuries, spying, imprisonment and taking away civil rights have all been introduced by various legal means to prevent diseases from catching.

AIDS is considered to be the most horrible malady of the 21century. Modern society realizes that laws will only be effective if they are built upon good information about all these serious diseases, and how they are transmitted. No isolations or limits of the supplies of condoms or the availability of sterile syringes for drug users will solve the problem. Laws against particular minority groups are not the way out as well, as they are unjust, unfair and discriminating. That's why control of all these diseases must depend on education. This is where the solution must lie, in educating communities, risk groups and every individual.