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Cologne and antiseptic: Russia’s killer drinks
Level 1 Elementary
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Key words
Fill the gaps using these key words from the text.
life expectancy birth rate
death rate
lifestyle compare
household products diet suicide
aftershave
tragedy
1. ____________ are things you use at home, such as perfumes, cleaning liquids and shampoos.
2. A person’s ____________ is the food that he or she normally eats.
3. A ____________ is a very sad situation.
4. The ____________ is the oficial number of births each year in a particular country.
5. Your ____________ is the way you live your life.
6. A person’s ____________ is the number of years they will probably live.
7. The ____________ is the oficial number of deaths each year in a particular country.
8. ____________ is a liquid with a nice smell that a man puts on his face after shaving.
9. If you ____________ two things, you think about the ways in which they are the same or different.
10. ____________ means killing yourself.
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Find the information
Look in the text and ind this information as quickly as possible.
1. What percentage of murders in Russia are linked to alcohol?
2. What percentage of suicides in Russia are linked to alcohol?
3. How much pure alcohol does the average Russian drink each year?
4. How much alcohol do some household products contain?
5. What is the life expectancy for men in Russia?
6. What is the life expectancy for women in Russia?
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Cologne and antiseptic: Russia’s
killer drinks
The scientists examined the medical records and
interviewed the families of 1,750 men who had
died in Izhevsk from 2003-05. They compared
these men with 1,750 who were still alive. They
found that problem drinkers and people who
drank alcohol from products like perfume and
aftershave often died younger than those who did
not have a drinking problem.
Sarah Boseley, health editor, and Luke
Harding in Moscow
June 15, 2007
1
A new medical study about alcoholism reports
that almost half the men of working age who die
in Russia die as a result of alcohol. The report
says that large numbers of Russian men die
young not just because they drink a lot of vodka
but because they also drink household products
containing alcohol, such as perfume, aftershave
and medicines. Some products contain
95% alcohol.
5
The scientists say that men who lost their jobs
because of drinking had very little money and
often drank household products containing pure
alcohol. In the group of men who were still alive,
47% who drank household products containing
alcohol were out of work compared with 13%
who drank only vodka and beer. In total, 43%
of deaths of men aged 25 to 54 in Izhevsk were
because of alcohol. This is probably because
they drank household products with very high
levels of alcohol.
2
An international group of scientists looked at
one city in the Ural mountains. They wanted to
discover the effects of drinking in Russia. They
chose the city of Izhevsk because it is a typical
industrial city where life is the same as in other
large cities in Russia and where the death rate is
the same as the Russian average. The scientists
wanted to ind out why life expectancy in Russia
is so low: in 2004 it was 59 years for men and 72
for women. As a result of the low life expectancy
and a low birth rate, the population of Russia is
falling by 700,000 a year.
6
Another report says that people who get their
alcohol from household products often live in
poor housing and have bad diets, and this could
also lead to an early death. The report also says
that many people also drink illegally produced
alcoholic drinks.
7
The Russian government agrees that alcoholism
is a huge problem and calls it a “national
tragedy”. With Vladimir Putin as president, the
Russian economy has grown very quickly since
2000 but people are still drinking a lot of alcohol.
Russian alcoholics - drinking perfume, aftershave
and cheap local alcohol - face great dangers. In
winter they fall through ice or freeze to death in
the snow.
3
Alcohol has always been an important factor in
death and disease in Russia. Changes in the
death rate which are linked to changes in lifestyle
and politics support this fact. Life expectancy
increased during the mid-1980s when President
Gorbachev tried to stop people in Russia drinking
so much alcohol. After the end of communism
the death rate in Russia increased in the early
1990s. This was probably because of alcohol.
8
According to 2005 igures, Russia has 2,348,567
registered alcoholics, and alcohol is linked to
72% of murders and 42% of suicides. The World
Health Organisation says Russia is one of the
most alcoholic countries in the world.
4
One study found that Russians, and people in
other countries of the former Soviet Union, drank
more than anybody else in the world - about 15.2
litres of pure alcohol per person each year for
people over 15 years of age. They also drank
more dangerously and often drank for two days
or more without stopping.
© Guardian News & Media 2007
First published in The Guardian , 15/06/07
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Comprehension check
Match the beginnings and endings to make sentences about the text.
1. Many men in Russia die young because…
2. Many people drink household products containing alcohol because…
3. Household products containing alcohol are dangerous because…
4. The population of Russia is falling because…
5. Winter is a dangerous time for alcoholics in Russia because…
6. Life expectancy increased during the mid-1980s because…
a. … President Gorbachev tried to stop people drinking alcohol.
b. … life expectancy is very low and the birth rate is low.
c. … they drink household products containing alcohol.
d. … they contain a very high percentage of alcohol.
e. … they may fall through ice or freeze to death in the snow.
f. … they are poor.
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Vocabulary 1: Chunks
Rearrange these words to make short phrases from the text. Check your answers in the text.
1. age working of men
2. a alcohol result as of
3. anybody more in than the else world
4. of work out
5. national a tragedy
6. the death in freeze snow to
7. of a number men large
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Vocabulary 2: Word stress
Put these words from the text into the correct group according to their stress pattern.
contain
perfume product effect
birth-rate
factor
disease increase (v) lifestyle
record (n)
compare
produce
A
B
0 o
o 0
6
Vocabulary 3: Past tenses
Complete the table.
past simple
1. grow
2. ind
3. choose
4. fall
5. lose
6. drink
7. try
8. lead
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Cologne and antiseptic: Russia’s killer drinks
Level 1 Elementary
KEY
1 Key words
5 Vocabulary 2: Word stress
1. household products
2. diet
3. tragedy
4. birth rate
5. lifestyle
6. life expectancy
7. death rate
8. aftershave
9. compare
10. suicide
A
B
0 o
o 0
perfume contain
product effect
birth-rate disease
factor
increase
lifestyle
compare
record
produce
2 Find the information
6 Vocabulary 3
1. 72%
2. 42%
3. 15.2 litres
4. 95%
5. 59
6. 72
past simple
1. grow grew
2. ind found
3. choose
chose
4. fall
fell
3 Comprehension check
5. lose
lost
1. c
2. f
3. d
4. b
5. e
6. a
4 Vocabulary 1: Chunks
6. drink
drank
7. try
tried
8. lead
led
1. men of working age
2. as a result of alcohol
3. more than anybody else in the world
4. out of work
5. a national tragedy
6. freeze to death in the snow
7. a large number of men
8. an important factor
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