- •Предисловие
- •Методические рекомендации
- •Список сокращений, использованных в поурочных словарях
- •Unit one home. House
- •Vocabulary
- •Read the words and word-combinations used with the topic.
- •2. Read the following word-combinations. Use them in the sentences of your own.
- •3. Translate the following word-combinations into English using the active vocabulary of the unit.
- •Rooms and spaces: designer’s advice
- •Ex. 2. Make sure you know the meaning of the following words and word combinations.
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Persecuted by fate
- •Assignments
- •Speech Exercises
- •1. Read and memorize the idioms and proverbs on the “home” and “house” words. Use them in the dialogues and monologues.
- •The dos and don’ts of renting
- •If you’re new to the whole renting caper and need a few pointers, take a look at our helpful list of dos and don’ts.
- •Интерьер для идеального человека Сангвиник и его дом
- •Final Test
- •Unit two medicine, medical treatment
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Give the Russian equivalents of the following word-combinations.
- •II. Revise the word combinations mentioned in the active vocabulary, paying attention to the prepositions and make up sentences with them.
- •III. Learn the words in the synonymic groups.
- •IV. Read the parts of the body, translate them into Russian and learn them by heart.
- •V. Translate the following word-combinations into English using the active vocabulary of the unit.
- •The laws of health
- •Assignments
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •At the dentist’s
- •Assignments
- •1. At the doctor’s
- •2. In the consulting-room
- •3. A call
- •Assignments
- •Being ill and seeing a doctor
- •Speech Exercises
- •Final test
- •Unit three healthy life style
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Give the Russian equivalents of the following words and word-combinations.
- •II. Read and memorize the following word-combinations. Use them in the sentences of your own.
- •III. Translate the following word-combinations into English using the active vocabulary of the unit.
- •Principles for better health and living
- •The synonyms to:
- •The antonyms to:
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Speech Exercises
- •Шутки – тоже наркотик
- •Прививка от курения в ближайшей перспективе
- •Final Test
- •Unit four people at leisure (night club. Discoteque. Casino. Fair.)
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Read the words and word-combinations used with the topic.
- •II. Use the following word-combinations in the sentences of your own.
- •III. Give the Russian equivalents of the following expressions.
- •IV. Translate the following word-combinations into English using the active vocabulary of the unit.
- •Put more enjoyment into your spare time
- •Assignments
- •The synonyms to:
- •The antonyms to:
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •So you want to pick the perfect night club?
- •Assignments
- •Speech exercises
- •Дискотеки, ночные клубы и бары испании
- •Фестивали и концерты
- •Final Test
- •Supplementary part Unit one
- •Real estate review
- •Its open house at the manor
- •Unit two
- •Thousand diseases (From Jerome k. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat)
- •Herbal remedy use affected by culture
- •Homeopathic treatment in a polluted world (by Doctor of Homeopathy, practicing classical homeopathy)
- •The effects on our health
- •Blueberries may improve your memory
- •Unit three
- •Personal health test
- •Unit four
- •Getting tickets
- •Keys to the exercises Unit one home. House
- •Unit two medicine. Medical treatment
- •Unit three healthy life style
- •Unit four people at leisure
- •Заключение дорогие студенты!
- •Www.Lang.Ru
II. Revise the word combinations mentioned in the active vocabulary, paying attention to the prepositions and make up sentences with them.
III. Learn the words in the synonymic groups.
1. Illness is the state of being ill in body or mind; a particular form of ill health, a period of being ill.
Example: He missed five days at school because of illness.
More than three million people suffer from severe mental illness.
Disease is a particular kind of illness with special symptoms and name, often affects a particular part of the body.
Example: The doctor diagnosed her disease as pneumonia.
Tropical disease. She has a rare lung disease.
Malady (old-fashioned) is usually lasting, sometimes chronic illness, more dangerous than disease, sometimes a fatal one.
Example: Last century tuberculosis was rather a malady, than a disease.
Ailment is a short, temporary, slight disorder of health, a mild illness. Usually this disorder is a chronic one, may be painful or uncomfortable.
Example: A running nose is the most typical ailment of this patient.
Infection is an illness that is caused by bacteria and that doesn’t usually last a long time.
Example: He was off work with a throat infection.
Virus is a very small germ that causes illness, or an illness caused by these things.
Example: The virus is highly contagious.
Condition is an illness or medical problem that affects s.o. for a long time. Example: a serious heart condition.
Disorder (formal) is a situation in which a particular part of s.o.’s body does not operate normally, often causing illness for a long period of time.
Example: a stomach/heart/liver disorder.
Bug (informal) is an illness caused by a virus or bacteria that is not serious and that doesn’t usually last for a long time.
Example: a stomach bug.
Pain refers to suffering of body. It is sharp and sudden.
Ache is a continuous pain.
2. Ill is physically or mentally unwell, unsound, not good, harmful.
Sick is physically or mentally unwell, likely to vomit, feel sick.
Both “ill” and “sick” may be translated as «больной», but “ill” is used as a part of the predicate, while “sick” – as an attribute.
Example: He is ill with pneumonia. He is a sick person.
If “sick” is used as a part of the predicate it means «испытывающий тош-ноту» or «испытывающий скуку и отвращение». To be seasick/airsick.
Example: Give me a tablet, please. I’m somewhat sick.
I’m sick or reading. I’m sick and tired of you.
If ill is used as an attribute, it means «плохой, дурной, злой», its usage is lexically limited. Mostly one can say: ill health/will/humour/temper.
3. To cure means to bring back/to restore to health, to get rid of a disease or a troublesome condition.
Example: In two weeks I was completely cured of the flu.
To treat means to give medical or surgical attention with the aim of curing a person of some disease.
Example: He is being treated of rheumatism.
To treat also means: 1. To act or behave towards a person or thing in a certain way: treated him roughly; treat it as a joke. 2. To present or deal with a subject: recent events are treated in detail. 3. To subject (a substance or thing) to a chemical or other process: to treat the seeds. 4. To entertain a person at one’s own expense; buy, have or allow to have as a treat: treated myself to a taxi. 5. To negotiate terms: treating with their enemies to secure a cease-fire.
To heal is to make healthy after wounds of any kind:
Example: Cuts are healed.
4. (additional) To die: to snuff it/peg out/kick the bucket (to expire) (humorous, informal, sometimes rude) – выдохнуться. To be dead: to be six feet under (informal); to be pushing up the daises – лежать в сырой земле. To pass away: to die (polite, formal) – скончаться; to breathe one’s last (formal, old-fashioned) – испустить последний вздох; to depart this life – покинуть этот бренный мир; to go to meet one’s maker – преставиться; to go the way of all flesh – разделить участь всех смертных (lang. of the church, bookish); to die young; to die a natural death; to meet a violent death – умереть насильственной смертью; to be gravely ill and expected to die – быть смертельно больным; there is no hope for smb./he’s far gone – быть безнадёжно больным; to be no long for this world/to be on one’s deathbed – быть на смертном одре; to have got one foot in the grave – стоять одной ногой в могиле.