Travelling

Modern life is impossible without travelling. Thousands of people travel every day either on business or for pleasure. They can travel by air, by rail, by sea or by road.

Of course, travelling by air is the fastest and the most convenient way, but it is the most expensive too. Travelling by train is slower than by plane, but it has its advantages. You can see much more interesting places of the country you are travelling through. Modern trains have very comfortable seats. There are also sleeping cars and dining cars which make even longest journey enjoyable. Speed, comfort and safety are the main advantages of trains and planes. That is why many people prefer them to all other means.

Travelling by sea is popular mostly for pleasure trips. On board large ships and small river boats people can visit foreign countries and different places of interest within their own country.

As for me I prefer travelling by car. I think it's very convenient. You needn't book any tickets in advance. You needn't carry heavy suitcases. You can stop wherever you wish and spend at any place as much time as you like. Every year my friend and I go somewhere to the South for holidays. It is my father who drives the car. I haven't got the driver's license yet.

The Black Sea is one of the most wonderful places which attract holiday makers all over the world. There are many rest-homes, sanatoriums and tourist camps there. But it is also possible to take a room or a furnished house for a couple of weeks there.

Questions

1. What means of travelling do you know?

2. Which means of travelling are the most po­pular with the passengers? Why?

3. Which is the fastest way of travelling?

4. Have you ever travelled by air?

5. How do people usually travel when they go ab­road?

6. When you travel within the country, do you usu­ally go by car, by plane, by ship or by train?

7. What are the advantages of travelling by rail­way?

8. When did you last travel by train?

9. Do you agree that travelling by sea is al­ways enjoyable?

10. What makes travelling by car enjoyable?

11. What are the disadvantages of travelling by car?

12. Where do you usually spend your holiday?

13. Where do you stay when you go to the South?

14. What is the best time for travelling and tou­rism?

Unit 7. Health words and expressions

patient hospital physician disease illness health

chemist's medicine to cough treatment flu

to recover

to be ill

to fall ill

to prescribe a medicine

to catch (a) cold

to take one’s blood count

to check one’s blood pressure

to X-ray

complication after a disease

sick-leave certificate

I have a sore throat.

It hurts here.

This is a good medicine for colds.

What do you take for a headache?

I have a running nose.

I'm not feeling quite up to the mark.

At the dogtor's

follow-up examination out-patient hospital in-patient hospital contagious disease at the dentist's medical check-up

poor health nurse ward pill surgery

to examine the patient

to have (to run) a temperature

to take one's temperature

to loose one's appetite

to feel run-down

to sound smb's chest

to go to the dentist's

to have a toothache

to fill a tooth

to take out the tooth

to have a tooth pulled out

to have pain in one's knee

to take pills for a headache

to sneeze

to be overweight

to cure smb. of (from) smth.

to be off-colour

What seems to be the trouble ?

The trouble is . . .

The patient is feverish.

This medicine will send your temperature down.

He was cured of heart disease

HEALTH

When we are ill, we call the doctor, and he examines us and diagnoses the illness (or disease).

When we have a headache, a stomach ache, a sore throat, or pain in some part of the body, we call the doctor. He takes our temperature and our pulse. He examines our heart, our lungs, our stomach or the part where we have a pain (the part of the body which hurts us) and tells us what is the matter with us. He says: “You have a slight temperature” or “You have caught a cold” or “You have heart disease”.

The doctor prescribes medicine, and gives us a prescription, which we take to the chemist, who makes up the medicine. The doctor says: "I shall prescribe some medicine. You must take the prescription to the chemist and he will make up the medicine for you. Take the medicine twice or three times a day, before or after meals". We must follow the doctor's orders if we want to get better. If we have a temperature, we must stay in bed and take the medicine he prescribes.

If you need an operation (for example if you have appendicitis), a surgeon performs the operation on you. If we are too ill to walk, we go to hospital in the ambulance. After our illness we can go to a sanatorium until we are strong again.

When we have toothache, we go to the dentist’s. The dentist examines our teeth. The dentist asks: “Which tooth hurts you?” He says: “That tooth has a cavity. I must stop it (I must put in a filling)”. If the tooth is too bad, the dentist extracts it.