5. Read and translate the text.
Oleksandr Oleksandrovich Bogomolets (1881-1946) was a famous Ukrainian physiologist. He was President of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Director of the Institute of Physiology in Kiev and he studied the phenomenon of longevity in Abkhazia and Georgia.
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e
was born in Lukyanovskaya prison. His mother was Sophia Bogomolets
died from tuberculosis and had infected her son. Despite
the medical treatment
by the best doctors died at 60 of pneumothorax – a consequence
of TB he had in childhood.
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e
prepared a serum
named after him (Bogomolets' serum) which was supposed to prolong
life and achieve to reach 140 years. This promise made Stalin to
support Bogomolets' work financially.
M. Pirohov’s contribution to the medicine and science is invaluable. He was the founder of topographical anatomy and operative surgery and created accurate anatomic atlases. His progressive ideas went ahead of time.
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e
was the first to suggest the idea of plastic operations, advanced
the idea of bone plastics, used anesthesia in the military-field
surgery, was the first to put plaster in field conditions.
Mykola Amosov was a heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, known for his inventions of several surgical procedures for treating heart defects from Ukraine. Born in the Ukraine in Chernivtsi region peasants, Mykola fought in the Great Patriotic War.
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7. Say if the sentences are true or false. Correct the false sentences.
Oleksandr Oleksandrovich Bogomolets was a famous Russian physiologist.
He studied the phenomenon of longevity in Abkhazia and Moldova.
O. Bogomolets was born on Lukyanovskaya Street.
His mother was Sophia Bogomolets died from tuberculosis and had infected her son.
O. Bogomolets prepared a serum named after him (Bogomolets' serum) which was supposed to prolong life and achieve to reach 100 years.
M. Pirohov was the founder of topographical anatomy and operative surgery and created accurate anatomic atlases.
Mykola Amosov was the first to suggest the idea of plastic operations.
Born in the Ukraine in Chernivtsi region peasants, Mykola fought in the World War II.
8. Use appropriate vocabulary from below to answer the question about jobs & people in medicine (What do they do?) about each picture above. Write 2 sentences about each picture.
drugs, pharmacist, test, tubes, consult, doctor, nurse, operate, babies, syringe, injection, microscope, researcher, viruses, medical technician, slide, chemist, veterinarian, examining, chemicals, mixing, mask, surgeon, pediatrician, patient, cat |
Заняття 3.5 Видатні художники України
1. Read and learn the following words:
significant – важливий, знаменний landmark – орієнтир, постать penetrate – проникати amateurish – непрофесійний charcoal – деревне вугілля vitality – жвавість, енергія appreciate – цінувати attempts – спроби |
water-colour – акварель dimmed – затьмарений dahlias – жоржини peonies – півонії bunch – букет, пучок erect – споруджати admire – захоплюватись |
2. Read and translate. Say what Katerina Bilokur liked to paint most of all.
Kateryna Bilokur (1900-1961)
K
aterina
Bilokur is a highly original Ukrainian folk artist. Her
beautiful pictures of the colorful Ukrainian nature are a
significant landmark in the history of Ukrainian folk art.
Katerina Bilokur's life was not easy. She was born in the family of a poor peasant. She had no possibility to study at school and only her desire to learn helped her later to fill in the gaps in her education. Studying attentively nature, she gradually enriched herself with new impressions and penetrated into the mysteries of painting.
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first works were amateurish. They were the portraits of people made
with charcoal and self-made vegetable paints. The second half of the
1930s was an important period in her creativity. Even her earlier
works – “The Birch”, “Flowers by the Fence”, “Flowers”
and some others showed her creative abilities.
V
itality,
harmony and sense of colours in the pictures became the main
features of all her works.
Bilokur's paintings were first displayed at the Poltava Regional Exhibition in 1940 and then at the National Exhibition in Kiev. They were highly appreciated by art-lovers and art-critics.
In the 1950s Bilokur made her first attempts in water-colour painting. Her best works of that period (“Bohdanivka Village in September”, “Beyond the Village”, “Early Spring”, “Autumn”) are noted for their emotional expressiveness. During the last years of her life, which were dimmed by serious illness, Katerina Bilokur created a number of notable pictures such as “Dahlias”, “Peonies”, “Bohdanivka Apples”, “Bunch of Flowers” and others.
Katerina Bilokur died on June 9, 1961. In her native village a monument was erected in her honor. At all times of the year its pedestal is covered with flowers which she so admired.