1. Watch the video below and fill in the gaps in its script

Fill the gaps in the Script

Instructions: Fill in the gaps with the missing English words/phrases. The Russian hint is given in brackets on the right.

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This guy has lived in this metal box for 71 years. He cannot move, so he eats like this, he reads like this, he types like

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this. And this machine is (единственная) thing keeping him (в живых). Who is he? Why is he

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living in this machine, and how did he become a goddamn (юрист)? Let me tell you

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his insane true story. In the US, we found Paul.

Hi, I am Paul Richard Alexander. I am the man in the iron lung.

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When Paul was just 6 years old, he was running outside playing with his friends, just like a normal kid. But then

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he started to (почувствовать себя плохо). “I started feeling bad, and I woke up and said, ‘Mom, I don’t feel good.’” His mom turned around and looked at

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me, and she said, “Please God, not my son.”

Soon he was in the hospital with other kids who all had (ту же самую болезнь) — polio.

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There were many years of struggle, and there were lots of children. I asked myself, “God,

why did all these kids die and I did not?” Polio mostly affects children, and it can paralyze the (всё, целое) body. Sadly, this is what happened to Paul.

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“I couldn’t sit up in the bed. The next day I couldn’t move my hands or my fingers. By the end of the week, I was having

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very serious trouble breathing.” Yes, Paul’s muscles stopped working. His lungs stopped (дышать), and doctors had (не было иного выбора кроме как)

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to put him inside this machine — the iron lung. Yes, it is an iron lung. Within days, Paul

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went from being a kid running outside to a kid locked up in this iron lung. “It wasn’t that I was locked

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up — it was to (сохранять) me alive.” Nobody (думал) he would be (способен) to breathe without it, until this happened. “My caretaker told me that " if you could — you could breathe for three

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minutes on your own out of the lung, they would give me a puppy", so he tried.

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Every day his mom turned off the lung, and he tried learning how to (дышать) again. He did this for weeks and weeks and weeks until finally he could do it. “I

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remember that day — the day I could breathe for three minutes. I got the puppy!” After that, he taught

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himself how to breathe without the iron lung for many hours. “I can breathe for many hours without the iron lung. It’s called frog breathing.” Yeah, there’s the machine — you can

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see it. The machine had stopped working for him. You can see how he gasps in, catching a couple of gulps of air and swallowing that air down into his lungs.

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Learning how to breathe opened up the world to him. He left his lung, sat in a wheelchair, and saw the world. “When I finally learned to breathe out

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of the (лёгкого) on my own, I was unstoppable. I went everywhere in my wheelchair. I went on many airplanes. I stayed in hotels. I even traveled to Mexico.”

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“When I went to Mexico, I had my iron lung (доставили) there.” He would spend a whole day without his lung, and at night

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he would go back into it. And it doesn’t stop there — he went to two universities and got two (диплома). He lived with his lung in a dorm room and went to class in a wheelchair. “I lived with a fraternity — they took care of me.” He even became a lawyer and went to

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court to fight cases. “God, I was a damn good lawyer. I would fight cases for people in court all day long.” Paul has been facing challenges every day ever since he got

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polio, but he doesn’t (позволять) it stop him. Every day he wakes up and faces the day with a smile on his face. “I am just like everyone else. I get up,

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I brush my teeth, I shave, and I (продолжаю) with my day.” He even wrote a book about his life with just a (палочка) in his mouth, like

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this. “This is my pen. It took me five years to write it, letter by letter.” It’s called

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Three Minutes for a Dog: My Life in the Iron Lung. Life in the iron lung is normal for him. But how does it even work? Well, this machine is literally a giant lung. See, we all use muscles to

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help us breathe. So when Paul got polio, his muscles stopped working, and he could not breathe on his own anymore. So this

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machine works like muscles for Paul’s lungs. Let me show you how air is (закачивается). When the air goes in, his lungs are forced to (наполняться).

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When the air goes out, his lungs are forced to (опустошаться). It’s a negative-pressure machine. It helps him to breathe. This is what pushes the air in, and it raises the ribs up and down. Paul wears this collar around his neck

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to keep the air inside. There’s a (зеркало) for him to see what’s around him. These little ports are for (медсёстры) to put their hands in to help him. If the power (отключается), Paul has a big problem. But

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luckily he has a (запасной план). “If the electricity goes out, I can use battery power.” Paul is one of the last people on the planet who still uses this lung. But why does he need this 50-year-old machine in the 21st century? It turns out

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it’s because he needs to keep his mouth free to do everyday tasks. “I can keep my mouth free, which is what I

use to write, to (говорить по) the phone, and to (зарабатывать) a (на жизнь).” His entire life changed when he was 6 years old because of one disease. And the sad part is, the polio vaccine was (изобретена)

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after he (подхватил) the disease. “The polio vaccine was not developed

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until after I got polio.” You might think that polio is just a thing of the past,

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but it is not. Polio is still around today in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan, because sometimes vaccines are not available, and sometimes people choose not to use them. That’s why it’s so important to get vaccines for (болезни) like polio. “You must get the

vaccine — they can save your life.” Paul is an incredible person. Nothing in his life has been easy, not even breathing. But still, he traveled, he went to school, he became a lawyer and he even wrote a book. “I have

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three heroes that have contributed to my determination: my mother, my dad, and my faith in God.” Paul has been locked up in this box

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for most of his life, but that didn’t stop him from doing big things. Because he knew an important truth: (единственное) thing that stops us from doing big things is not our health, or our age, or how much money we have — it’s our mind. So

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if Paul can do great things while in the iron lung, imagine all the great things you could do if you just opened your mind.

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“I’m with you.”

1.4. [Евразийская, Ломоносов, ВОШ, СПбГУ, Герцена] Write an engaging review of the video to upload on Youtube

Write about 220-250 words. Provide:

1. an introduction outlining the content of the video,
2. a body of paragraphs discussing:

• the creator's possible intentions and points made (explicit and implicit);
• as well as how they illustrate their ideas,
• the feelings the video evokes and
• your personal emotions;

      3. finally, in the conclusion reiterate your observations briefly evaluating the impact of the video on the viewer.

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