Cosmetic surgeons condemn cut-price 'beach body' operations

A medical group's sales pitch offering Thomas Cook discount vouchers for people who book pre-holiday tummy tucks and breast resizing has angered consultants A MARKETING campaign designed to lure people into having serious cosmetic surgery with offers of cut-price holidays and multiple operation discounts has been condemned by doctors’ leaders. Patients are being warned against opting for surgery as a result of such promotions, which include a package holiday voucher if they book a “beach body” overhaul. The Transform medical group, which has been criticised previously for its incentives, has also launched a VIP “privilege club” where customers can collect “surgery points”.

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Baaps) dismissed the offers as absurd marketing gimmicks and said that people should not be encouraged to undergo operations for flimsy “summer body” reasons. The association added that it was particularly concerned by offers of multiple operations “under one anaesthetic”, which carried significantly higher health risks.

Under the scheme, patients who book the bikini body transformation package — which involves breast augmentation, fat removal and body sculpting or a tummy tuck and fat removal during one operation — are given a Thomas Cook voucher. This entitles them to £100 off a Mediterranean holiday or £200 off a holiday from the Thomas Cook faraway places brochure.

The press release for the offer suggests that “cosmetic surgery is as easy and accepted as going on a summer holiday” and it is also publicised on the company website.

Activity - Roundtable discussion

Comments

A roundtable has multiple participants, a moderator and doesn’t require an audience. It is best described as a guided conversation which is not very formal. The conversation is guided by a moderator who facilitates the discussion and keeps the agenda moving. It may be described as a talk-show with special quests, well-known people and experts. The goal is to allow for a spontaneous and free-flowing discussion. It is a non-prepared activity.

Student A: You are a moderator of a roundtable discussion Your responsibilities include: Ø beginning and ending the discussion on time; Ø defining the purpose of the discussion; Ø making introductions; Ø keeping the participants on topic; Ø summarizing the discussion; making sure that each participant gets an opportunity to speak.

Student B,C,D ….: You are a participant in a roundtable discussion Your responsibilities include Ø voice your views; Ø challenge opinions of other participants

Задание 5. Text for written translation

Choppers and change

Fools rush in when spending billions on defence

Not for the first time, a British politician stands accused of an unlikely infatuation with the idea of British-built helicopters — and of losing sight of broader goals in the process. Eighteen years after Michael Heseltine resigned as Defence Secretary during the Westland helicopter saga, Lord Bach, the Minister for Defence Procurement, has followed him to the defence of the fabled Westland plant in Yeovil. Now under Italian ownership as part of Agusta-Westland, the plant hopes to build the lion’s share of £3 billion of helicopters to be delivered to Britain’s Armed Forces over the next ten years. No other contractors have been invited to bid, and other potential bidders fear that they will be excluded on the ground that, as Britain’s only surviving helicopter manufacturer, the Yeovil facility is a strategic asset deserving preferential treatment. Lord Bach, a new Labour peer, may also have electoral considerations in mind: 4,000 high-tech jobs are said to be at stake. But even taken at face value, the justification offered for a non-competitive “partnership” between Agusta-Westland and the Ministry of Defence is deeply flawed. It denies taxpayers the value for money that only open competition can guarantee and that even sensitive defence contracts must be expected to deliver. Even more importantly, such a partnership would allow the Government to claim to be moving briskly forward on a vital programme of hardware renewal, when it should be doing precisely the opposite. Bitter experience, and the latest research, show conclusively that too much haste and too little investment in the early stages of such programmes vastly increase the risk of cost and time overruns later on — and of delivering faulty or simply inappropriate equipment.

WORLD POLITICS

UNIT 2

Задание 1. Мнемотехника

1.1. Последовательное повторение числа с изменением (+1; +2; -10; -1).

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1.2. Цепочка цифр без перевода и с переводом (с мнемообразом «вагончики»)

1. 32, 43, 54, 65 2. 35, 87, 67, 88 3. 286, 545, 384, 23 4. 346, 286, 34, 545 5. 879, 456, 234, 589

6. 42, 53, 64, 75 7. 39, 89, 69, 89 8. 282, 539, 392, 28 9. 886, 986, 64, 578 10. 887, 439, 789, 385

1.3. Repeat after listening or reading.

I before E, except after C.

Unfortunately this rule does not always apply. One common exception is the word weird, which has prompted some people to use the extended version of this mnemonic:

I before E, except after C.
And "weird" is just weird.

But just don't rely on this one for spelling words like weir and seize and neighbor and weigh!

Spelling Acronyms

The following mnemonics are sentences or phrases in which the initial letters of the words spell out a word which many people find rather tricky to spell.

BECAUSE - Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants

ARITHMETIC -A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream

RHYTHM - Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move

NECESSARY- Not Every Cat Eats Sardines (Some Are Really Yummy)

Order of colours in the rainbow, or visual spectrum:
(Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet)
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.

The order of planets in average distance from the Sun:
(Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
My Very Easy Method: Just Set Up Nine Planets.

Palindromes

Madam I'm Adam - Do geese see God? - Murder for a jar of red rum;

Some men interpret nine memos – Аргентина манит негра - Don't nod;

Dogma: I am God -Rats live on no evil star - -Ah, Satan sees Natasha;

God saw I was dog - Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!;

Задание 2. Response rate

1А Развертывать войска – to withdraw troops – продвигаться вперед – loss-making enterprises – работать без прибыли – to give loan/ release credit – проводить опрос – to run into troubles over smth – отправиться в путь/побуждать/намереваться – to pay arrears – амнистировать – it is rumoured that/ rumour has smb do smth – широкий полномочия – to shoot on sight – говорят, что он уехал – blood feud – расхождение во взглядах – line-item veto power – вычеркнуть из документа – (social) welfare (system) – получать пособие – to lift the ban – наложить эмбарго – to deprive smb of smth- (иметь глубокие расхождения по вопросу) – to shoot point-blank

1В To deploy troops – выводить войска – to press ahead – убыточные предприятия – to be in the red – предоставить заем – to poll – столкнуться с трудностями – set off – выплатить задолженности – to grant amnesty – ходят слухи, что – sweeping powers – стрелять без предупреждения – he is rumour to have escaped to another country – родовая вражда – clash of opinions – право выборочного(постатейного) вето – to delete – социальное обеспечение – to be on the dole – снять запрет- to impose an embargo against smb – лишить чего-либо – to be far apart on smth – стрелять в упор

Задание 3. Sight Translation