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stuck in a swamp and only half of him was seen already. He was struggling to free himself but he couldn't. He was in panic and screamed loudly. Farmer Fleming saved the boy from a slow death.
The next day a rich carriage came up to the Scotsman's place. An elegantly dressed man got out and introduced himself as the father of the boy who Fleming had saved. "I want to repay you," said the man.
ALEXANDER FLEMING "You saved тУ son's life'"
"No, I can't take payment for what I
did," the Scottish farmer replied. At that moment the farmer's own son
came to the door of the family house.
"Is that your son?" the man asked.
"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll do the following then. Let me take him and give him a good education. If the boy is like his father he'll grow to a man you can be proud of."
And he did that. In time, Fleming's son graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and became known throughout the world as Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin /,peni'silin/.
Years later that man's son was close to death from pneumonia. He was saved by penicillin. His name was Sir Winston Churchill.
1. Do you know what penicillin is?
2. Why was it a great discovery?
3. Who was Sir Winston Churchill? Why was he famous?
4. What do you think of the characters of the four people described in the story?
2. Listen to the text and say if the statements are true or false.
1. The doctor couldn't hear his patients' hearts because he had problems with hearing.
2. The wooden tube made the sounds of the body louder.
3. Those sounds were always the same.
4. Doctors today use the same kind of tube. It is called stethoscope,
3. Read the text about a famous nurse. Some sentences have been taken out of the text. Put them in the right places.
Florence Nightingale was named for Florence, Italy, where she was born on May 12, 1820, when her rich British parents lived there. At the age of 16, Florence realized that she had a special mission in life: helping other people. ...(1) But Florence entered a school for training nurses in Germany. She later studied in Paris. At 33, she became the head of a women's hospital in London.
During the war in the Crimea in 1854, Florence Nightingale sailed for the Crimea with 38 nurses. ...(2) The bleeding soldiers lay on floors. There were not enough bandages, soap or towels. Nightingale found a few men who could clean the place, and she put them to work at once. At night, she walked the miles of corridors with her lamp and soldiers called her the Lady with the Lamp. .. .(3) By the end of the war, Nightingale had saved many lives and had brought reforms in hospital administration and in nursing.
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