1. Read and translate the text: Scarlet Fever

Scarlet fever is an infectious disease. We can often see children ill with this disease, and only sometimes grown-ups.

The disease passes from one person to another through the nose and mouth. The beginning of the disease is quick. The patient has a sore throat, fever, headache, and vomits often. The face is flushed and the skin feels hot and dry. The temperature rises quickly on the first day and remains high for a few days. The rash appears on the second day. After the temperature falls the skin begins to peel. We must isolate the child with scarlet fever and put him in bed. When the temperature is high the nurse gives her patient a fluid diet and when the temperature falls she gives him nourishing food.

2. Post-reading activities

2.1 Are the sentences true or false? Correct false statements.

1. Scarlet fever passes from one person to another only through the mouth.

2. Тhе rash appears in a week.

3. The nurse gives nourishing food when the temperature rises.

4. The patient's temperature in case of scarlet fever is usually low.

5. We must isolate the child with scarlet fever.

2.2 Answer the questions.

l. What does a patient with scarlet fever have?

2. What is the temperature of a patient with scarlet fever?

3. Does skin begin to peel?

4. Must we isolate a person with scarlet fever?

5. What diet must a child with scarlet fever have?

Lesson 14

At the Chemist's

1. Pre-reading activities

1.1 Read and memorize the words:

powder - порошок; solution - розчин;

tablet - таблетка; mixture - мікстура;

pill - пігулка; infusion - настій;

ointment - мазь; decoction - відвар;

suppository - свічка; tincture - настойка;

ampule - ампула;

to take ... 3 times a day - приймати тричі на день;

on an empty stomach - натще;

2. Match the words-combinations:

consult a doctor лейкопластир

write out a prescription снодійні

cough mixture звернутися до лікаря

sleeping draughts мікстура від кашлю

laxatives виписати рецепт

adhesive plaster проносні засоби

2. Reading activities

2.1 Read the text and get ready to retell it:

At the Chemist's

When you are ill you consult a doctor. He prescribes you a treatment and writes out a prescription.

At the chemist's you can get patent medicine of all kinds: ampules of glucose and camphor for injections, different pills, tablets and powders, cough mixtures, heart drops, nasal drops, vitamins, cod liver oil, ointments, sleeping draughts, laxatives, sedatives, bandages, adhesive plasters, and bottles of iodine.

You can also buy hot-water bottles, medicine droppers, ice-bags, sponges, tooth-brushes and tooth-pastes, soap, and many other useful things.

3. Post-reading activities

3.1 Suggest the Ukrainian equivalents:

prescribes you a treatment; patent medicine of all kinds; nasal drops; cod liver oil; bottles of iodine; medicine droppers; tooth-brushes and tooth-pastes.

2. Suggest the English equivalents:

виписати рецепт; ампули глюкози для ін’єкцій; різні пігулки, таблетки і порошки; серцеві краплі; багато інших корисних речей.

3.3. Do you know the expressions, which indicate the medicine use? Match English words with their Ukrainian equivalents.

1. Before meal	а) двічі на день
2. After meal	b) для внутрішнього використання
3. For external use	с) перед їжею
4. Once a dav	d) приймати ліки
5. Twice a day	є) для зовнішнього використання
6. Three times a	f) три рази надань
7. For internal use	g) після їжі
8. To take medicine	h) один раз на день

3.4. Complete the sentences with correct words:

1. Dose 2. Doctor's instructions 3. Colds 4. Stomach

5. Take 6. Headache, cough 7. Shake 8. The globules 9. Prescription 10. Pipette

1. ... the bottle well before use.

2. Take this ... every 3 hours.

3. ... this medicine, please.

4. That must be taken on an empty ....

5. What do you take for a ...?

6. This is a good medicine for ... .

7. You must wash hands before the use of... .

8. Read the ... before giving the solution.

9. Please, wash the ... before use.

10. Here is a ....