10. Translate the dialogues into English:

• Що з Вашою дитиною? Вона захворіла?

• Боюсь, що так. їй поміряли температуру в школі і відіслали додому.

• Вона скаржиться на що-небудь?

• Так, вона каже, що в неї болить горло.

• О, вона швидко одужає. Ці ліки допоможуть їй за два- три дні.

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• На що Ви скаржитесь?

• Мабуть, я дуже перевтомився останнім часом і зараз страждаю від головного болю. Крім того, я дуже погано сплю.

• Л Ви міряли температуру?

• Так, вона нормальна.

• Дозвольте Вас оглянути. Вам потрібно побути вдома. Я дам Вам листок непрацездатності на три дні і пропишу ліки. Ось, будь ласка.

11. Ask questions on the text and retell it:

My mother suddenly fell ill (was suddenly taken ill). She was feverish and felt very bad.

She had a splitting headache and a terrible cough. We telephoned for doctor Ivanenko, our district doctor. Doc­tor came, took her coat off and put on the white gown which she kept in her bag. The doctor asked mother to strip to- the waist, examined her, felt her pulse, took her temperature, and measured her blood pressure.

The doctor said it might be pneumonia and told mother she must go to the hospital for an examination. But

mother wouldn’t hear of it. So doctor Ivanenko prescribed her some injections, a gargle, a cough-mixture, tablets, mustard plasters and a hot-water bottle at her feet.

Next doctor Ivanenko wrote a note for an X-ray and blood examination. The doctor put down everything she found in my mother’s patient’s file.

The prescription which the doctor left was made up at the chemist’s (at a chemist’s shop).

We followed the doctor’s instructions and in two weeks mother felt much better. I took her to the policlinic for a check-up.

Mother went to doctor Ivanenko’s consulting-room while I remained in the waiting-room. Soon mother came out. The doctor said she was on the mend. (She was recover­ing.)

The past perfect continuous tense grammar exercises

I. Find the sentences in the Past Perfect Continuous Tense:

1. He had been working as a doctor there for seven years by that time. 2. Have you been to the doctor? 3. A doctor had been checking his patient’s blood pressure for three minutes when she came. 4. Do you feel pain anywhere?

5. If you are not any better in two days, keep in bed and send for the doctor. 6. My sister had been working at the hospital for six month before she left. 7. I had been taking that medicine a tablespoonful three times a day by the end of January.

2. Make the following sentences negative:

1. We knew that he had been working as an oculist for a long time. 2. My granny said that she had been taking some pills and drops all the morning. 3. The girl answered that she had been taking some tablets all the week. 4. The doctor noticed that she had been behaving strangely. 5. My brother said that he had been gargling his throat all the morning. 6. Jane replied that she had only been at the hospital for three days. 7. The dentist said that he had

been pulling out a wisdom tooth. 8. The boy explained that

he had been taking that medicine from a headache for a long time.