Put the jumbled sentences in the logical order to sum up the information given in the text

1. Only, a few governments have taken some measures aimed at decreasing the number of smokers.

2. Tobacco brings a lot of money.

3. Smoking usually results in bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer.

4. Nevertheless, a number of measures should be taken.

5. It can easily be explained.

6. For a start governments should ban all cigarette advertising, then smoking should be banned in public places and young people should be informed about harmful effects of smoking.

7. Instead of banning smoking altogether authorities discreetly point out that smoking may be harmful.

8. Governments of most countries do not see, smell or hear any evil.

9. In most countries cigarette advertising is allowed.

Use the following outline and key words and expressions to speak about the problem raised in the text.

1. Consequences of smoking (bronchial troubles, heart disease, lung cancer).

2. Governments’ reaction to smoking (to take timid measures, to see no evil, lukewarm).

3. A wonderful commodity (tobacco, to tax, short-sighted policy, to spend money on research, to cure people, to ban smoking altogether).

4. Measures to be taken (to ban, cigarette advertising/smoking, public places, to warn about, dire consequences of smoking).

Unit II

Pre-reading tasks

1. Look through the key words and expressions and guess what this text is about:

online shops shopping to get a refund

to be available to find out tips

economical seller’s physical address to ensure

convenient total cost to send cash

safe to save records of online transactions

Think of and write down 5 questions the answers to which this text might contain.

3. Now look through the text to see:

a) if your guess about the contents of the text was correct;

b) what questions can be answered. (Answer these questions).