Do-It-Yourself Death Lessons
DO-IT-YOURSELF DEATH LESSONS
Practice English with your teacher
Warm-up
Talk about these questions with your teacher.
선생님과 이야기해 보세요.
- What did you eat today?
오늘 뭘 드셨나요? - Can you cook? What is your best dish?
요리할 수 있나요? 가장 잘하는 음식은?
Vocabulary
Listen and repeat after your teacher.
선생님을 따라 읽어보세요.
Reading
Read the passage with your teacher.
선생님과 함께 지문을 읽어보세요.
The book, FINAL EXIT, is a manual for committing suicide or helping someone else to do so. It sold out its first of 41,000 copies and will top next week’s list of how to and advice bestsellers in the New York Times. The volume explains, step by step, how to end a human life; it includes charts for lethal dosages for 18 prescription drugs, primarily pain killers and sleeping tablets; it debates and debunks the merits of cyanide; it offers abundant practical advice about asphyxiation by plastic bag or auto haust.
Even more jarring to critics, the book exhorts doctors and nurses actively to abet the “self deliverance” of the terminally ill. Author Derek Humphry contends that such assistance is common but tacit. “ Part of good medicine is to help you out of this life as well as help you in,” he argues. When a cure is no longer possible and the patient seeks relief through euthanasia, the help of a physician is most appropriate.
Dialogue Practice
Practice the dialogue with your teacher.
선생님과 대화를 연습해 보세요.
(1) What is the book Final Exit about?
(2) How many copies did the first printing sell?
(3) What are the contents of this book?
(4) What is the most frightening part of this book?
(5) How does the writer justify his book.
Korean Trap! / 한국인 실수 교정
Common mistakes Korean speakers make.
한국인이 자주 하는 실수를 알아봅시다.
'prefer A to B' 패턴을 씁니다. 'than'이 아닌 'to'입니다. 'I would rather have coffee than tea'와 혼동하지 마세요.
Discussion
Share your thoughts with your teacher.
선생님과 의견을 나눠보세요.
Prescription - A written order for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedyEuthanasia - The act of putting painless death to a person suffering from an incurable disease
Extra Practice
(1) Do you think the government should permit sales of Final Exit?
(2) Do you think this book encourages suicide by normal people, or is it just good guidance for the terminally ill?
(3) If you were a bookstore owner, would you sell this book?
(4) If your friends or family members asked you to buy the book for them, what would you do?
Lesson Summary / 수업 요약
Today's Topic: DO-IT-YOURSELF DEATH LESSONS
Level: High Advanced (H.A)
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