Think about people's lives 50 year ago. What did people use to have instead of today's modern devices?

Daniel: Yes, I collected stories about unusual jobs from all over the world.
I : So you’re not talking about actors or shop assistant s.
D: No, all the people in the book have very strange jobs.
I: I see it’s organized into different industries, like the cleaning industry. But isn’t cleaning a normal job?
D: Normally, yes. But did you know there’s a man in America called Brad Fields and he cleans chewing gum off the Statue of Liberty? Well, actually, he’s got a company called Gumbusters. But that’s all they do – they clean gum off the streets and famous buildings of New York.
I: Oh, what a horrible job!
D: Yes, Americans chew 56 billion pieces of chewing gum a year. Then they throw most of it onto the street. That’s a lot of cleaning.
I: OK, that job is quite unusual .But what about in the food industry?
D: Well, when a company wants to advertise food they sometimes need a food stylist. Their job is to make food look good in advertisements.
I: I’ve never heard of that job before.
D: Well, there are only about 20 food stylists in Britain. For example, when we look at a picture of strawberries and cream we’re really looking at strawberries and white paint.
I: Really?
D: Yes, and they paint sausages with washing-up liquid, then coffee, to make them look natural.
I: So what’s the strangest job in your book, do you think?
D: Well, how about vermiculturalist?
I: What’s that?
D: A vermiculturalist is a worm farmer. These people manage farms that only have worms. No other animals, only worms.
I: But why?
D: Well, worms like eating rubbish and that’s good for the environment. So companies pay a worm farmer to clean up their rubbish.
I: Fascinating, but ugh, not a job for me. I see there’s also a chapter about artists. What strange jobs did you find in …
Listen to Daniel Ash talking about his new book, What do you do? Then state if the following statements are true or false. Correct the false sentences.

True False
1. The jobs in the book are from all over the world.

2. They paint sausages with tea and coffee.

3. Americans chew 57 million pieces of gum a year.

4. Brad Fields’s company cleans gum off the streets and famous buildings of New York.

5. Food stylists take photos of food.

6. Worm farmers use worms to eat rubbish.

1. He (score) a brilliant goal yesterday. 2. He (live) in Moscow last year. 3. Last week the competitions (start) at 5 o’clock and (finish) at 7 o’clock. 4. She (practise) gymnastics some years ago. 5. We (participate) in the last competitions. 6. He (pass) all the exams last week. 7. They (play) tennis yesterday. 8. She (visited) many foreign countries. 9. When he was young, he (danced) very well.

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by the Saxons around 400 AD. Nearly a thousand years after that, when William Shakespeare A 3 English was a native language of about seven million Englishmen. A 4 between 1600 and the present speakers of English A 5 to every corner of the globe, carrying their language and culture with them, English became more popular. Today about 350 million people use English A 6 a mother tongue. Many words used today, A 7 man, woman, mother, king came from Old English. But A 8 languages are living, changing thing, the English of Shakespeare is different from the English of today. English is now international language and is used A 9 a means of communication between people from many countries. A10 a result of people’s communication new words A11 to English from other languages. New words spread quickly A12 television and the Internet. ОТВЕТЫ : A 0 1 land 2 landed 3 has landed A 1 1 as 2 like 3 as though A 2 1 brought 2 was brought 3 has brought A 3 1 wrote 2 was writing 3 was written A 4 1 Due to 2 Due to the fact that 3 Thanks to A 5 1 travelled 2 was travelling 3 were travelling A 6 1 as 2 like 3 such as A 7 1 as 2 like 3 so as A 8 1 because 2 because of 3 so A 9 1 as 2 like 3 so A10 1 As 2 Like 3 Though A11 1 added 2 are added 3 are being added A12 1 because 2 due to the fact that 3

England by the Saxons around 400 AD. Nearly a thousand years after that, when William Shakespeare A 3 English was a native language of about seven million Englishmen. A 4 between 1600 and the present speakers of English A 5 to every corner of the globe, carrying their language and culture with them, English became more popular. Today about 350 million people use English A 6 a mother tongue. Many words used today, A 7 man, woman, mother, king came from Old English. But A 8 languages are living, changing thing, the English of Shakespeare is different from the English of today. English is now international language and is used A 9 a means of communication between people from many countries. A10 a result of people’s communication new words A11 to English from other languages. New words spread quickly A12 television and the Internet. ОТВЕТЫ : A 0 1 land 2 landed 3 has landed A 1 1 as 2 like 3 as though A 2 1 brought 2 was brought 3 has brought A 3 1 wrote 2 was writing 3 was written A 4 1 Due to 2 Due to the fact that 3 Thanks to A 5 1 travelled 2 was travelling 3 were travelling A 6 1 as 2 like 3 such as A 7 1 as 2 like 3 so as A 8 1 because 2 because of 3 so A 9 1 as 2 like 3 so A10 1 As 2 Like 3 Though A11 1 added 2 are added 3 are being added A12 1 because 2 due to the fact that 3

and better medical care the average person will live to 90 or 100 instead of 70 and 75 like today. When the human genome is decoded, we'll probably live up to 150. Incurable diseases will be cured and "bad" genes replaced.
But that's tomorrow. And today, we continue to stuff ourselves with fast food — chips and pizzas, hamburgers and hot dogs. We are always in a hurry.
We have no time to enjoy a home-cooked dinner with family and friends. We want to eat now and we want to eat fast.
What is tasty is not always healthy. Doctors say that chips and pizzas are fattening, cola spoils our teeth and coffee shortens our lives.
If we eat too much, we'll become obese, and obesity leads to heart disease, diabetes and other serious illnesses. But the world today is getting fatter and fatter. America is the world's leader in obesity, but Europe is quickly catching up.
Lack of exercise is another serious problem. We spend hours in front of our computers and TV-sets. Few of us do morning exercises. We walk less, because we prefer to use cars or public transport.
Research shows, however, that young people who don't take enough exercise often suffer from heart attacks.
It's common knowledge that smoking and drinking can shorten our lives dramatically. Cigarette-smoking, for example, kills about 3 million people every year. Many of them die from lung cancer. Some aren't even smokers. They are people who live or work with heavy smokers.
Yet many young people smoke and drink. Why? One answer is that tobacco and drinks companies invest enormous sums of money in advertising their products. For them cigarettes and alcoholic drinks mean money. For us they mean disease and even death.
We all know that the healthier we are, the better we feel. The better we feel, the longer we live. So why not take care of ourselves?

Vocabulary
scientist ['saiantist] ученый healthy ['helSi] здоровый
lifestyle [laifstail] образ жизни
medical care ['medikl ,kea] медицинское обслуживание
average ['aevarids] средний
human ['hju:man] человек; человеческий
genome ['d3i:naum] генетический код, геном
to decode [,di:'kau<3] расшифровывать, декодировать
incurable [in'kjuarabl] неизлечимый
disease [di'zi:z] болезнь
to cure ['kjua] лечить, излечивать
gene ['d3i:n] ген
to replace [ri'pleis] заменять
to stuff [sUf] oneself with зд. набивать желудки
pizza ['pi:tsa] пицца
hamburger ['haembaiga] гамбургер
fattening ['faetnirj] способствующий ожирению,
жирный
cola f'kaula] кола
to spoil [spoil] портить
obese [au'bi:s] тучный
diabetes [,daia'bi:ti:z] диабет
to catch up догонять
lack [laek] нехватка
to prefer [pri'fa:] предпочитать
research [ri'saitj] исследование
to suffer f'SAfa] страдать
heart attack ['ha:t a,taek] сердечный приступ
it's common knowledge ['nolidj] общеизвестно
dramatically [dra'maetikali] резко
lung cancer ['!AQ ,kaensa] рак легких
heavy smoker заядлый курильщик
tobacco [ta'baekau] табак; табачный
to invest [invest] инвестировать, вкладывать
enormous [i'no:mas] огромный
to advertise ['aedvataiz] рекламировать
product ['prodAkt] продукт, товар
alcoholic [,aelka'holik] алкогольный

Questions
1. Do you think people will live longer in the future?
2. Do you believe that one day genetic engineers will be able to correct "gene" mistakes?
3. Do you like fast food? Is it tasty?
4. Why is fast food bad for us?
5. What illnesses does obesity lead to?
6. Are Europeans getting fatter?
7. The USA is the world's leader in obesity, isn't it?
8. Do you take regular exercise?
9. How often do you go for a walk?
10. Do you spend much time in front of your TV-set?
11. Why is smoking dangerous?
12. In some countries tobacco and alcohol advertising has been banned (to ban запрещать). Do you think it's a good idea?
13. Is passive smoking dangerous?
14. Would you like to live a long life?

been to a lot of shops and I was feeling a bit tired. Finally, I thought I'd go up to the next floor of the shopping centre and look for a CD. As I was going up, I noticed a girl ahead of me almost at the top of the escalator. She was wearing a red jacket like mine. You know how you always feel curious about people you see wearing the same clothes, so I kept looking at her absent-mindedly. With growing amazement, I saw that the girl looked just like me from behind — same hairstyle, same colour, even her black bag was exactly like mine. The girl got to the top of the escalator before me. When I reached the top I looked around for her, but she had disappeared in the crowd of Saturday shoppers. I thought it was funny, until I went to look at some CDs in a shop window. I noticed another reflection in the window. I knew it wasn't me, it was the girl I had seen on the escalator. She was standing just behind me and looking at the same things. It was so weird. I turned round slowly but there was no one there. The next moment I caught a glimpse of the red jacket disappearing round the corner. But the weirdest bit was when I dashed after her and ran into my friend who was out shopping that day too. She looked surprised when she saw me. She said she had just seen me walk straight past her without even saying hello. She was sure the girl she had seen was me. I have read about it quite a lot, and the only explanation that fits what happened is that I saw my Doppelganger — my double. What bothers me, though, is that people usually see their Doppelganger before they die. I'm not easily scared, but I not wear that red jacket anymore.