III. Complete the sentences with the missing phrases.

1. Keoin Tabido has planned how he will spend his final hours: ______________.

And then, _________, he will take _____________________________.

2. Mr. Tabido is not crazy. He is ________________________. He is _________________________.

3. Gradually, it will be __________________________.

4. He has even bought _________________________.

5. “I don’t want _________________________,” Mr. Tabido says. “I want to go out doing _________________”.

6. Mr. Tabido is trying to ________________. “I will have only ____________, so I _______________________.”

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Do you think what Mr. Tabido and his doctors are doing is right? Check your opinion.

· In this case, I think suicide is all right. But his doctors should not help. Doctors should cure people, not kill them!

· If someone wants to die, that's their business. And if they need a doctor’s help, that's fine, too.

· Yes. Suicide is OK in this kind of situation. It's cruel to stop it.

· No. It's wrong to take your own life. Mr. Tabido shouldn't give up.

· Well, we have to respect Mr. Tabido's decision, even if we don't agree with it.

LOOKING AT THE ISSUE

Suppose some scientists invent medicine to help people live forever. One day they come to you and say, "If you take the medicine in this bottle, you will never get old and you will never die." Would you take it? Why or why not?

Yes, I would take it because: _____________________

No, I wouldn't take it because: ______________________

LET’S THINK

Every day thousands people die. Every minute thousands people fall ill with incurable diseases. May the doctors use organs of the dead to save people’s lives? Just to transplant hearts, kidneys, livers to people who have been queuing up for these vital organs for many years?

Most of them wait without any result and die. So can the dead help the living?

I. Study the words.

to be in favour of smth	`feivə	поддерживать ч.-л.
to be opposed	ə`pəuzd	противостоять, быть против
to have use for smth		пользоваться ч.-л.
to give permission	pə`mi∫n	давать разрешение
to have the opposite point of view		иметь противоположную точку зрения
to cut up (v)		разрезать, разрубать на куски
to take out (v)		вынимать
to violate (v)	`vaiəleit	осквернять, нарушать
to be treated with smth	`tri:t	обращаться с ч.-л.
dignity (n)	`digniti	достоинство
to cut open (v)		рассекать
to come back to life		вернуться к жизни
to turn off/on (v)	tə:n	выключить/включить
to make a decision	di`siʒn	принять решение

organs of a body
heart	ha:t	сердце
lung	lÙnŋ	лёгкое
brain	brein	мозг
blood	blÙd	кровь
kidney	`kidni	почка
bone	bəun	кость
marrow	`mærəu	костный мозг
eye	ai	глаз

II. Form the derivatives of the words given in a chart below. Use a dictionary if necessary.

Noun	Adjective	Verb
		die – dyed – dying
donor
		violate
permission

III. Compare the words in their usage.

Permissive [pə`misiv] (adj) – tolerant; granting permission – permissive neighbours.

Permissible [pə`misəbl] (adj) – permitted, allowable – permissible dose.

1. This movie is not ... for kids! 2. My parents were … and let me make my own mistakes. 3. Would it be … to say that? 4. Old people always say that the youth live in … environment.

Permit [`pə:mit] (n, countable) – an official written statement giving one the right to do something

Permission [pə`mi∫n] (n, uncountable) – formal act of allowing; written or spoken agreement

Permissibility [pə,misə`biləti] (n) – допустимость, позволительность

Permissiveness [pə`misivnəs] (n) – вседозволенность

1. It’s parents’ right to give or not to give ... to their offspring. 2. You won’t get into the atomic research station without a ... . 3. ... never leads to anything good. 4. The Constitution proclaims legal ... . 5. With your … I’ll leave now. 6. Do you really hold … for a revolver?

Deadly[`dedli] (adj) – likely to cause death – a deadly poison

Deathly[`deθli] (adj, adv) – like death – a deathly silence

1. Fog is the sailors’ … enemy. 2. Hush! The students are writing the test. Listen to that … silence. 3. What have you done? It’s one of the seven … sins. 4. Andrey Balkonsky died because of … wounds.

IV. There are two phrasal verbs in the text: to cut up and to keep alive. What do they mean? Study the examples and match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.

TO CUT

Hecut off a piece of cheese so that I could taste it.

I won't be surprised if my electricity iscut off— I haven't paid the bill for three months.

You shouldcut that dead treedown before it falls on your house.

Hank thinks he's such a tough [`tÙf] (крутой нравом) guy. Someone ought tocut himdown to size.

My father said that we're spending too much and have tocut back.

to cut ... down [informal – always separated]	to spend less
to cut ... off	to do or say smth to make people feel less important or less powerful
to cut back	to remove completely part of smth with a knife, saw, or pair of scissors
to cut ... down	when you stop the supply or flow of smth, such as water, electricity, or money
to cut ... off	you use a saw or an axe to cut a tree and make it fall to the ground