RFDSA Look at the picture and the title. What do you think the text is about?

RFDSA

Look at the picture and the title. What do you think the text is about?

Read the text and answer the questions.

Imagine a work that involves helping 200,000 isolated patients over 7.5 square miles of The Australian Outback. The job includes treating patients on remote sheep farms, operating with basic equipment. It also means dealing with the risk of flying in bad weather conditions and making emergency landings to save critically ill patients. This is the daily life of those working for the Royal Flying Doctor Serves of Australia.

isolated - изолированный

outback – малонаселенный район

remote - отдаленный

equipment - оборудование

emergency - необходимость

Living in the Outback means almost complete isolation for thousands of Australians. It’s unusual to find homes or small villages within 60 miles of each other, let alone a hospital.

The RFDSA, which is a non-profit charity, was set up in 1928. Since then, it has been helping whose who live in remote areas of Australia. Today it offers primary health care from an aeroplane, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year as well as educational assistance. If the doctors are unable to treat a patient, they will fly them to the nearest hospital to be treated there.

non- profit - некоммерческий

charity - благотворительность

health care – медицинская помощь

assistance - содействие

unable – не в состоянии

Answer the questions.

1. Where is RFDSA located?

2. What do the initials RFDSA stand for?

3. When did it start?

4. What have they been doing for over 70 years?

Word formation

Суффикс – ive образует прилагательные на основе глаголов и существительных и соответствует русскому суффиксу – ив , например:

to act - act ive

Действовать – акт ив ный

a mass – mass ive

Масса – масс ив ный

Form adjectives from the words and make sentences with them:

Impress, inform, protect, an impulse, create, attract, imagine, nature.

Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits each space.

1. Angelina Jolie is very __________ . (ATTRACT)

2. Have you read this __________ leaflet ? (INFORM)

3. J.K. Rowling is a very _________ writer. (IMAGINE)

4. The view from our hotel was _______ .

(IMPRESS)

5. John is an ________ little boy. (ACT)