2. Translate the following words and word combinations into Russian. Make up 5 sentences using these words:

a brain scan, to glance, to observe in silence, the expressions on smb face, to seem familiar, to search for an answer, to live forward, the experiment room, a frequent talk of smth, a paper clip, crudeness issue, slice by slice, a massive tumor, to be confronted with, to be destroyed, the system of memory consolidation, the dome of the skull, to guess, the images of the brain.

3. Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the active vocabulary.

1. We were out in the sun once, Henry in his … and I beside him, waiting for the taxi to take us for his ...

2. He can …, …, set it just ahead of himself, and … into it.

3. He …; he gathered … for his questioners; he always likes to please.

4. Henry was … about this, especially as he had to remove all metal objects from his person.

5. A live image of his brain, slice by slice, as … taking images one plane at a time.

6. When the imager reached Henry’s … and the place where his middle brain should be, the researcher at the panel let out a low ...

7. But it is not the same to guess as to see the lovely textured images of the brain and then the black, … where tissue has been ...

4. Find the matches between figures and letter:

1) hippocampus	a) a chair on wheels which people who are unable to walk use for moving
2) brain	b) a long look, usually of a particular kind
3) cortex	c) a device for making images of the inside of the body or for reading information into a computer system
4) scanner	d) the outer layer, especially of the brain and other organs
5) wheelchair	e) a curving strand of tissue lying deep within the cerebral cortex in each hemisphere of the brain
6) gaze	f) an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull

5. Answer the questions to the text:

1. What types of things does Henry seem unable to recall?

2. How did the doctor examine Henry?

3. What did Henry feel during the procedure?

4. What did the examination show?

5. Why does the researcher seem excited by Henry’s brain scan?

6. Where was the magnetic resonance scanning procedure take place?

6. Group discussion: Why does the author compare Henry to a dog?

7. Make a summary of the text using the following phrases:

As far as I know…..

It is rather surprising that…..

I’d like to add that…..

I have doubts about….. because…..

It seems that…..

The main idea of the text is…..

Text Units of Thought, Understanding Psychology, 2003, p. 296