Методическая разработка урока английского языка по теме «Florence Nightingale — The Lady with the Lamp»

Barrack Hospital, Scutari

14th November, 1854

Not a sponge, nor a rag of linen, not anything I have left. Everything is gone to make pillows and shirts. These poor fellows have not had a clean shirt nor been washed for two months before they came here, and the state in which they arrive from, the transport is literally crawling. I hope in a few days we shall establish a little cleanliness. But we have not a basin, nor a towel, nor a bit of soap, nor a broom - I have ordered 300 scrubbing brushes. But one half of the barrack is so out of repair that it is impossible to use a drop of water on the stone floors, which are laid on rotten wood, and would give our men fever in no time.

lorence Nightingale was born in 1820 to a rich family. Her parents expected her to marry and have a family. But Florence did not want a 1) ...... (mean) life.

She wanted to help the sick and the poor. 2) ...... (event), she persuaded her father to let her become a nurse. In 1854, England, France and Turkey went to war against Russia (the Crimean War).

Reports began to reach England of the 3) ...... (terror) conditions soldiers were suffering in the army hospitals. Florence volunteered to go and help. When she arrived, she found thousands of ill and wounded soldiers living in filthy conditions.

The hospitals were 4) ...... (crowd) and unventilated. Soldiers lay without proper food, bedding and 5) ...... (cloth). There was a lack of basic medical supplies like bandages and medicine. Rats and sewage filled the hospital corridors. Soldiers were dying in the thousands, not from their wounds but from the unsanitary conditions. Florence cleaned up the hospital, made sure the men were fed 6) ...... (proper), and saw that supplies were available. She worked almost around the clock looking after the soldiers. Florence soon became known as 'the Lady with the Lamp' for her 7) ...... (dedicate) to caring for her patients. News of her hard work in Crimea filtered back to London. She became a celebrity. By the time she arrived back in London, she was the most 8) ...... (fame) person in Britain after Queen Victoria.

After the war, Florence continued to work to improve conditions in hospitals. She even established a school for nursing and wrote an 9) ...... (influence) book on the profession. She also became an important 10) ...... (consult) on health issues. In fact, it was her work after the war that changed medical care forever.

In her later years, Florence suffered from ill health. She died in 1910, at the age of ninety.