Answer the questions to the text in exercise 1.

1. What is a nursing home?

2. What kind of people are typical residents of nursing homes?

3. What services are provided by a nursing home?

4. When does Medicare cover SNF care?

5. What is changing in modern nursing homes?

Put the necessary word in the sentence and translate it into Russian: deficiency; assistants; hospice; brunt; common; discharge.

1. Bad dreams are fairly … among children.

2. Most care in nursing facilities is provided by certified nursing … .

3. The car took the full … of the explosion.

4. Some elderly people suffer from iron … in their diet.

5. … is a special hospital for people who are dying.

6. Nurses visit the mother and baby for two weeks after their … from the hospital.

Use the correct verb form (Past Simple, Present Perfect).

1. Since then I (to change) my job several times.

2. "Oh, no! You (to fail) to sign the contract!" he cried.

3. Mr. Black suddenly (to find) that there was a note attached to the letter.

4. I (not to consider) that point yet.

5. Mary isn't at home. She (to go) to work.

6. Last year they (to increase) their production greatly.

7. They (to be) in social work for 5 years already.

8. We (to sign) a few contracts last month.

9. He can't find a job. He (to be) unemployed for half a year.

10.  …you (to see) Mr. White since he returned from his business trip?

Change the sentences into Passive.

1. We sent the inquiry to government authorities two weeks ago.

2. Our specialists always carry out laboratory tests.

3. I will prepare all the documents tomorrow afternoon.

4. The surgeons are operating on the patient.

5. At that moment their representatives were examining the new tool.

6. They have already paid him for that work.

Meet a real social care worker Debbie Pollard, Day Care Services Manager and read what she says.

I used to be in the fashion trade but became interested in working in social care when I spent time supporting classes for people with learning at a local college. My first actual job in social care was as a day centre officer, from which I moved on to become a manager after acquiring specific qualifications. There's been a shift in thinking in day care services from "This is what we can provide" to "What does each user need". That has changed the way we do things, as has new technology.

New forms of communication are important for many of our users who are non-verbal. What hasn't changed is that this is a job where you believe in people and are rarely disappointed.

Retell the text (ex. 6) within 4–5 sentences using reported speech.

Make all types of questions to the text (ex. 6).

Translate from Russian into English.

1. Суть социальной работы в том, чтобы интегрировать усилия различных специалистов из разных областей для решения возникающих перед человеком проблем.

2. Социальная работа – это деятельность по изменению общества в сторону его самосовершенствования, в сторону поддержки самых слабых членов общества.

3. Социальный работник должен быть посредником между человеком, нуждающимся в помощи, и организациями, которые могут эту помощь оказать.

4. Патронатному воспитателю выплачивается определенное вознаграждение.

5. Социальный работник должен помочь человеку встать на ноги, указать направление, научить его жить и самостоятельно решать свои проблемы.

6. Нам нужно нанять нового служащего.

7. Специалист по социальной работепроводит исследовательско-аналитическую работу по проблемам социального положения населения в курируемом районе.

8. Этот проект имеет много преимуществ.

9. В нашей стране очень мало вузов, имеющих собственную медицинскую базу.

10.  Этот больной нуждается в скорейшей госпитализации.

Вариант 3

1. Translate the text, find and write down the equivalents to the words:

патронат; компенсирование; льготы; облегчить; воссоединение; округ; клеймо; центры временной опеки; подвергать сомнению.

FOSTER CARE

Foster care is a system by which a certified, stand-in parent (or parents) cares for minor children or young peoples who have been removed from their birth parents or other custodial adults by state authority. Responsibility for the young person is assumed by the relevant governmental authority. Requirements to be a foster parent vary by jurisdiction, as foster families may receive monetary reimbursement and other benefits. Foster care is intended to be
a temporary living situation for children and young people. The goal of foster care is to provide support and care for the young person in order that either reunification with parent(s) or other family members or another suitable living arrangement can be facilitated. This may include an adoptive home, guardianship, or placement with a relative. At times, the bond that develops during foster care will lead to the foster parents adopting the child. In some instances, children may be placed in a long-term foster placement. For older adolescents, a foster care program may offer education and resources to prepare for a transition to independent living. That is not to say that older adolescents would not benefit from family placement, however, it is more difficult to recruit foster and adoptive parents for teens due to the stigma that is often attached to adolescents in foster care.

In the United States, foster home licensing requirements vary from state to state but are generally overseen by each state's Department of Social Services or Human Services. In some states, counties have this responsibility. Each state's services are monitored by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Children found to be unable to function in a foster home may be placed in Residential Treatment Centres (RTCs) or other such group homes. In theory, the focus of treatment in such facilities is to prepare the child for a return to a foster home, to an adoptive home, or to the birth parents when applicable. But two major reviews of the scholarly literature have questioned these facilities' effectiveness.