Unit 9! Healthcaaree

Most of the time we feel well. We can play sports, go to work and enjoy our lives. But sometimes we just don't feel well. What happens then?
Some people have medical insurance but most people can't afford it and rely on the National Health Service, the NHS. This is provided by the government in Britain. The NHS has sent everybody in Britain a Self-Help Guide. This will help you diagnose what is wrong and find the best treatment. It covers things like headaches, coughus and colds, having a temperature or a stomach ache. For many people it could be all they need. You may need to go to the chemist to buy cough mixture or pills for a geadache. There are lots of medicines you can buy in the chemist buy for more powerful ones like antibiotics you need to have a prescription.
You can get a prescription from a doctor. Doctors work in surgeries or health centres. The doctor examines you first to find uout wha'ts wrong. Then they can write you a prescription for medicine to cure you.

If you can't get to a doctor, there are two other NHS services you could try. The first is NHS Direct. This is a phone service where a trained nurse will suggest the bes way to treat you. The NHS also provides Walk-in Centres in more than 60 locations in Britain. You don't need an appointment - you can just go in and wait until a doctor is available to teat you. Walk-in Centres treat minor illnesses like colds and flu, cuts and sprains.
For accidents (for example a broken leg or arm) or emergencies ( for example a heart attach), you hould go to a hospital which has got a specific Accident and Emergencies department. Doctors and medical staff can cure lots of illnesse now using suregery and teament with drugs.
But many people prefer alternative medicine. This can include many kinds of teatmen using both very old and very modern thechniques. One of the most common alternative treatments is the use of chinese herbs - these are completely natural medicine. Acupuncture - a Chinese technique using needles placed carefully in the body - is also popular Osteopathy - where the doctor manipulates bones and muscles - is another popular. osteoplathy - where the doctor manipulates bones and muscles - is also popular. Osteopathy - where the doctor manipulates bones and muscles - is another popular treatment.

Hopeflly these treatments won't be necessary. The best way to avoid getting ill is to have a healthy diet, get lots of exercise and take good care of yourself. YOU shouldn't then need to use the healthcare system at all!

Unit 8! Cooompuetrs

Computers are a very important part of our lives. They tell us abut delays to transport. They drive trains, analyse evidence and control buildings. Did you know that 60 % of homes in Britain have got a PC ( a personal computer) ? For many young people, playing computer games is their favourite way of spending spare time. computers are a very important part of most areas of lifer in Britain _ libraries, the police and in school. But they are becoming more important in ourt homes as well. they'll even control the way we live - in'smart homes' or compter-controlled houses.

The smart home is now a real possibility. It will become very common. A central computer will adjust the temperature, act as a burglar alarm and swich on lights ready for you to come back home. and of course you will be able to give new instructions to the computer from your mobile phone. So if your plans change, your home will react to match. Many homes have got lots of televisions and several computers. The smart home will provide TV and Internet slckets in every room so you'll be able to do what you want wherever you want. If the temperature outside changes, the smart home will adjust temperature levels inside. The computer will also close the blinds whent in gets dark or to stop too much sun from entering a room. And if you want to eat when you get home, the computer will turn the oven on for you!
Are computers taking over our lives? In a survey, 44 per cents of young people between 11 and 16 said their PC was a trusted friends. Twenty per cent said they were happier at their computer than spending time with family of friends. Another survey found that people in Britain spend so much time on the phone, texting and reading e-mails that they no longer have time for conversation. What do you think about that¿

Unit 7! Traaaanspoooort in Looondooon

Exploring Mars is going to be very exciting, but for now, it's easier to explore our own planet! In particular, London.
We're going to follow Freddie as he explores all the different ways of transport in London.
He's a television researcher and he's going to find out about all the different ways of traveling in London. 1.8 million people travel into the center of London by train every day.

The next part of Freddie's journey is on another kind of train called the Docklands Light Railway.
These are computer-controlled trains with no drivers.
The different kinds of transport link up pretty well but sometimes you have to walk from one point in the journey to the next.

People use lots of other forms of transport in London. Some people use boars on the River Thames to go to work.
There is one kind of transport that isn't very good in London and that's the car. They move very slowly because there is too much traffic.
The buses and taxis travel more quickly because they have got spacial lanes on the road.

Unit 6! Maaariiitimeee histoooory

In England no town is more than 170 kilometres from sea. So it's no surprise that Britain has a very important history of ships and the sea.

The British Navy was the biggest navy in the world at one time. Now it's smaller, but many sther ships are still used for importing and exporting goods and for taking people on business or holiday. In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history. It's got several shipls in the docks outside. Inside it shows what it was like to be on some of the ships.

Ships like this one- the Cutty Sark at Greenwich in London - Brought tea from India to Britain. It was a very profitable trade and made many people very rich. The ships used only sails and achieved very high speeds. Young men had to climb the rigging to put up the sails.
It was very dangerous.

Between 1830 and 1930 more than nine million people from all over Europe left from the part of Liverpool to start a new life in America of Australia.

Om tje earñu twentieth centruy there were large numbers of very elegrant passenger ships.
They crossed the Atlantic from Liverpoool or Southampton to New York in five or six days.
The most famous ship was probably the Titanic. It sank in 1912 and over 1,500 people drowned. It was the worst disaster in maritime history. You probably know about it from one of the most expensive films every made - Titanic!

On of the most famous shipping companies is Cunard. It's got the world's biggest cruise ship, the Queen Many 2, which crosses the Atlantic from Southampton to New York. It still takes five or six days but some people prefer that to five of six hours in a aeroplane.

The majority of people do trawel aroung the world by planet but ships are still very imporant for moving goods.

These metal boxes, of containers, are packed with clothes, television sets, computers, furniture and toys.

here at the Southampton Container Termial they unload more than one and a half million containers each year.

So the sea still plays a very important part in life in Britain.

unit 5!Briiitiiish hoooorrooor stoooriiieeees

People like to be scared. They love reading horror sotories and watching horror movies. Some of the most famous horror stories were written by British writers. The first was poblished by Mary Shelly in 1818 - Frankenstein. Many films have featured Frankenstein over the years.

Since then Dracula has always been in print.

Bram Stoker got idea for Dracula while he was sitting in Highgate Cemetery in North London.

Dracula is so popular that visitors to London can go on a guided Dracula tour.

The tours usually take place just when it's getting drak...

The bedroom window was wide open and moonlight was shing into the room. Mina was on the balcony and a drak shape was leaning over her. It was Count Dracula !

The vampire was not drinking Mina's blood. No, it was more terrible than that. Dracula was holding Mina's face to a long cut on his chest.

The vampire turned his head. His eyes brned with a terrible red light. Blood was dripping from his red lips and long white teeth. The vampire had already taken his meal of blood!

We do like to be frightened, don't we?¿

Unit 4 Laaaaaaw

The most famous police station in Britain in New Scotland Yard in London, but there are police stations all over the country. They've all got a bloue light outside to show they are police stations.

For most people the police are the face of the law.

We visited a new police station in Lewisham, an area in sourt-est London. This is the coustody room of the police station. A suspected criminal is being charged with a crime. He must hand over everythings he's carrying of has got in his pockets.

next hey take fingerprints to check th person indetity. This marchine scans fingerprints electronically and compares them with the national police database.

Suspectas can be kept in the cells at the police station for several hours. This suspect spent a whole night in the cells.

Next day he went to court. Here three magistrates listen to evicence from the police and witnesses.
As well as the cells we saw earlier, the police station in Lewsham has got stables for police horses.

The evidence that the police collect from a crime scene is analsed in laboratories like this.
The people who work here are called forensic scientists. They can examine and analyse material from the crime scene to find out exactly what happened.

Fingerprints are a good way of indentifying people but DNA is more reliable. A person's identity can be found from a single hair! Each person has got a unique DNA profile. DNA profiles can be matched on these computers.

The police are the most obvious part of the law in Britain.
Forensic scientists provide the evidence that helps the courts decide wheter a suspect is guilty of a crime or not. The courts then decide on the sentence.

Unit 3! Supeeermaarkeeets

Supermarkets are an imporant part of daily life in Britain.

The five biggest supermarkets sell 80% of all groceries. Tesco is the biggest. It's got nearly 2,000 shops in Britain and is the third biggest supermarket in the world.

Two of them , Asda and Tesco, are also the biggest sellers of clothes in Britain.

In the larger supermarkets you can buy just abourt anythins. On the shelves you can find all the food and dirnk you need. You can buy sport equipment, bicycles, books, toys and games, CDs and DVDs.
The very big supermarkets are usually on the edge of towns and most people drive to them.

And while they are there with their car, coustomers can buy petrol too.
There are many more supermarkets nw than 20 years ago. People find it very convenient to do all their shopping in one place.
It's even more convenient to shop form home. A lot of people now use online shopping.
Tesco online delivers over 100,000 orders each week in Britain and Sainnsbury's delivers 30.000. it's becoming a very populare way to shop.

But not eberynoe likes supermarkets. Small shops in towns and villages are closing because supermarkets can sell the same things cheaper. So people without cars have less choice.

As a result, the big supermarkets have started to open small shops in twon and city centres.
Many supermarkets are open 23 hours a day and seven days a week, so people can shop 24/7. but not on Sundaywhen shops can only open for five hours. That's enough for most people! But you can still shop online.