1. Read and translate the text: At the Doctor's

For a week I felt pain in the stomach and I decided to consult a doctor. Here is the conversation between me and the doctor.

Volkov: Good morning.

Doctor: Good morning. What is your name?

V.: My name is Volkov.

D.: What's the matter with you?

V.: I have a stomachache for a week and I want to find out

what's wrong with me.

D.: Show me the place where it hurts you.

V.: Here, doctor.

D.: Does this pain go to another place?

V.: It goes to my back sometimes.

D.: Does it bother you at night?

V.: Most of the time.

D.: We’ll take X-rays of your stomach and make some more

tests: blood test, urine test. I’ll tell you the diagnosis after I

have all your tests.

2. Post-reading reading activities

Exercises

2.1 Fill in:

1. What is the ... with you? 2. I want to find out what's ... with me. 3. ... me the place where it hurts you. 4. This pain ... me at night. 5. Take ... of your stomach.

(X-rays, show, bothers, matter, wrong)

2.2 Give the English equivalents:

Що з вами? турбувати; аналіз; аналіз крові; сеча; аналіз сечі; діагноз.

Lesson 11

First Aid

1. Pre-reading activities

1.1 Read and memorize the words:

first aid - перша допомога;

to save - рятувати;

injured - потерпілий;

accident - нещасний випадок;

calm - спокійний;

act - діяти;

2. Reading activities

2.1 Read and translate the texts:

First Aid

Everybody must know how to give the first aid. The first aid saves many lives. The first aid is the help which you give to an injured person. You must know different methods of helping in accidents. When you give the first aid you must be calm and act without panic.

Exercises

Exercise 1 Say it in English:

перша допомога; надати першу допомогу; рятувати життя; бути спокійним; діяти спокійно.

Exercise 2 Answer the questions to the text:

1. What saves many lives? 2. What is the first aid? 3. What must you know? 4. How must you act?

BRUISE

When you fall on your knee you get a bruise on it. The bruised place looks red and swollen at first. If there is scratch on your knee put iodine on it. If your knee hurts you very much, take some cloth, wet it in cold water and put in c the bruise. It will relieve the pain. If the fall or the blow was very heavy, you must consult doctor.

bruise - забій, синець; bruised place - забите місце;

swollen - припухлий; relieve the pain -полегшити біль;

Bleeding

When the blood flows from an artery it is scarlet. When the blood flows from a vein it is dark red.

Stop the bleeding as soon as possible. The simple method is to put clean cloth or a pad of sterile gauze over the wound and fasten it tightly.

If the bleeding is from an arm or leg raise the limb. If a person has nosebleed after a heavy blow you must put a cold compress on the nose. The person must breathe through his mouth. In severe cases doctors make blood transfusion.

scarlet - яскраво червоний; wound - рана;

bleeding - кровотеча; fasten - перев'язати

pad - м'яка прокладка; gauze - марля;

blood transfusion - переливання крові;

Exercises