Exercises

Exercise 1. Answer the following questions.

1. When do people most often fall ill with the flu? What are its symptopis? 2. Have you ever fallen ill with the flu? Did you have a splitting headache when you were ill with the flu? 3. Are you subject to colds (coughs, headaches, sore throats)? 4. What is the best remedy for a headache (cough, sore throat, cold) in your opinion? 5. How does one usually feel when he has a cold? 6. Do you usually run a high temperature when you are ill? 7. Who must one send for if he is unwell? 8. In what way does the doctor usually examine his patients? 9. What does he usually prescribe? 10. Do you lose appetite when you are not quite well? 11. Where do we have our prescriptions made? 12. What are the symptoms of quinsy (scarlet fever, pneumonia)? 13. What infectious diseases do you know? 14. What are children's diseases? 15. Do you always keep to bed when you are unwell?

Exercise 2. What will you answer if the doctor asks you:

1 .What's the trouble? 2. When did you take the temperature? What was it? 3. When did you feel bad? 4 Does it hurt уоu when you swallow? 5.-What diseases were you ill with when a child? 6. When did you consult the doctor last? 1. Are you subject to headaches? 8. Where do you have pains? 9. When do you have pains? 10. What are you complaining about? 11. How long have you been like that? 12. Do you smoke much? 13, When did you start coug-hingso badly?

Exercise 3. Ask your friend op relative and let her (him) respond.

Example: Get me a hot water bottle, will you?

or

Will you get me a hot water bottle, please. Here you are. Yes, of course. Just a minute.

To fetch you a couple of tablets; to get you a thermometer; to give you a glass of hot milk; to send for the doctor; to go to the chemist's; to air the room; to get you something to read; to make you a compress; to buy ment­hol drops; to make a cup of hot tea with lemon; to tell you something interesting; to close the window.

Exercise 4. Complete the sentences.

1. On Saturday I went out without my warm coat on and now .... 2. The doctor took the patient's temperature and said... . 3. I can hardly breathe because ... . 4. When she came home she complained of a headache and her mother .... 5. The patient said that .... 6. It hurts me when I swallow because .:. . 7. The best remedy for it is ... . 8. When I have a splitting headache .... ?. This medicine wiir Work wonders if... . 10. If you follow the doctor's instructions you’ll… 11. You must give up smoking ... . 12. She looks very thin ... . 13. She looks the picture of health ... . 14. She is losing weight... .

Exercise 5. Ask your fellow-students:

... why she looks seedy today

... if she is running a temperature

... what her temperature is

... if she has taken medicine

... if she is subject to colds, headaches, to sore throats, coughs

... what the best remedy for a headache is

... what diseases she was ill with when a child

... what children's diseases she knows

... if she knows any incurable diseases

... what catching diseases she knows

... when and what she was ill with

... if she made an appointment with her doctor when she fell ill

... if she has ever had any complications after a disease

... if she has ever been operated

... if she has ever had any traumas

... what the symptoms of quinsy are

... how she felt when she had the grippe

... if she has ever had a toothache

... if she has ever had her chest X - rayed

... if she has ever had her blood tested

... what her blood pressure is

... what medicine the doctor prescribed her when she was ill with quinsy

... if the doctor .gave her a sick-leave

... if she followed the doctor's advice

... how long it took her to get well (to recover)

... if she kept her bed when she was ill

… if her friends often visited her.

Exercise 6. Fill in the blanks with suitable words.

1. The doctor ... his patient very carefully and ... some medicine. 2. I can hardly turn my head because of .... 3. The flu usually begins with .... 4. There is nothing serious the matter with you, it's just ... . 5. You look rather ... today. 6. It ... me when I swallow. 7. Let me feel your ... . 8. I don't like this sound of your .... 9. Do you feel any ... over there? 10. He has been ill with ... for a week already. 11. If you want... you must follow the doctor's, advice. 12. Will you go to ... and have these ... made? 13. ... the throat three times a day. 14. This ... is very good for a cough. 15. I am feeling .... 16. You have all the ... of the grippe. 17. If you are... to colds you should take a good care of yourself. 18. She caught ... when we were skiing. 19. Your forehead is hot, let me take ... . 20. My sister was ill with ... when she was a child.

Exercise 7. Insert prepositions or postverbal adverbs wherever necessary.

1. What are you complaing ... ? 2. The best remedy ,. a headache is fresh air. 3. Will you go ... the chemist's nd have this prescription made, please? 4. The doctor as given him a sick-leave because he has a very bad complication ... his heart... quinsy. 5. The weather has been asty lately and many people have fallen ill ... the flu. . She is ill... quinsy ... a bad form. 7. You'd better take tablet of analgine ... your headache. 8. She says she is abject ... coughs. 9. Take these tablets ... your cough. 10. She says she often has pains ... the stomach ... meals. 11. Shake this mixture carefully ... use. 12. The doctor told him to stay ..bed. 13. You have all the symptoms the flu. 14. The first thing to do is to bring the tern-rapture !.. . " 15. I am feeling rather poorly. Perhaps we've got a touch ... the flu. It generally begins ... a headache and a fever. 16. You are running a high temperature. Shall I send ... a doctor?

Exercise 8. Fill in the missing parts of the dialogues.

Mary: Hello, Charles, what's the matter with you? You are looking rather seedy.

Charles:

Mary: Are you running a temperature? Have you taken it?

Charles:

Mary: I'll get it (the thermometer) presently.And how is your throat? Does it hurt you when you swallow?

Charles:

Mary:I am afraid you are falling ill with the flu. You'd better stay in bed for a day or two. Now, what's the temperature?

Charles:

Mary: Is it as high as that? Then I think I'll send for the doctor at once.

***

Doctor:What's the matter with you?

Charles:

Doctor: How long have you been like that?

Charles:

Doctor: Have you taken your temperature?

Charles:

Doctor:Let me feel your pulse. H-m, it's a bit rapid. Now I must sound you. Your back, please. Take a deep breath.

Charles:

Doctor: No, there is nothing serious the matter with you. I'll give you a prescription to be made at the chemist's Take a dose of this medicine every three hours. I hope you'll get well in no time. I'll look in again in the morning. Good afternoon.

Charles:

Exercise 9. Translate into English.

1. У меня болит горло, и я сильно кашляю. - Вы что-нибудь принимали? - Вечером я выпила стакан горячего молока с маслом и медом и сделала компресс на горло. Но это не очень помогает. Наверное, придется обратиться к врачу. 2. Если вы подвержены простудам, вам надо тепло одеваться. Особенно легко простудиться весной и осенью. 3. Если у тебя температура, выпей таблетку аспирина, чтобы сбить жар. И полежи-ка ты сегодня в постели. Я позвоню Ане и скажу, что ты неважно себя чувствуешь и в институт не пойдешь. 4. Что сказал тебе врач? - Он сказал, что ничего серьезного, но гланды не в порядке, с ними что-то надо делать, может быть, оперировать. 5. Я принесла тебе микстуру для полоскания горла. Мне сказали в аптеке, что нужно полоскать горло 2 раза в день до еды. 6. Он жалуется, что у него болит желудок. Я думаю, ему надо обратиться к врачу. Если что-то серьезное, то ему лучше лечь в больницу. 7. В детстве мой сын перенес корь, воспаление легких, скарлатину. Сейчас дети редко болеют корью и скарлатиной. В раннем детстве им делают прививки против этих болезней.

Exercise 10. Practice reading the following words. Learn them by heart.

pulse пульс

to examine осмотреть

a heart сердце

lungs легкие

to diagnose поставить диагноз

to prescribe прописать

medicine лекарство

Exercise 11. Practice reading the following question and the different versions of the answer. Learn them by heart.

What will the doctor do? Что сделает доктор?

The doctor will	feel your	доктор	проверит ваш
	pulse.		пульс.
	examine		осмотрит ваше
	your throat.		горло.
	listen to your		выслушает вас.
	heart and lungs.
	diagnose the case.		поставит диагноз.
	prescribe some		пропишет
	medicine.		лекарство.

Exercise 12. Learn the following dialogue.

A. Good morning, doctor.

B. Good morning, Kate. What do you complain of?

A. I feel bad. I have a headache, and I am afraid I am running a temperature.

B. Well, here's the thermometer to take your temperature. I see that you don't look well.

A. Besides, I have a cold in the head and my throat is sore.

B. What is your temperature?

A. Thirty-seven and five.

B. Open your mouth and show me your throat. Oh yes, your throat is red. Strip to the waist. Let me listen to your heart and lungs. Breathe.

A. What's the matter with me, doctor?

B. You have a bad cold, Kate. You must stay in bed for two days, until your temperature is normal and you stop coughing.

A. How I hate being ill and staying in bed!

B. But if you are not careful, you may fall ill with the flu or pneumonia. I'll prescribe you some medicine. Ask your mother to go to the chemist's and get the medicine.

A.. How do I take the medicine?

B. A table spoonful three times a day.

A. And what should I take for headache?

B. I'll give you a tablet for headache. But the main thing for you is to go home and stay in bed. If you don't feel better, call me in. Good-bye.

A. Thank you, doctor. Good-bye.

Exercise 13. Practice reading the following words and word combinations. Learn them by heart.

a strong wind was blowing дул сильный ветер

an umbrella зонт

a raincoat плащ

sneezed чихал

to beat down the temperature сбить температуру

mixture микстура

made a face состроил гримасу

by the way кстати, между прочим

the flu is catching грипп заразен

to see how the patient is getting on

посмотреть, каково состояние больного

illness болезнь

serious серьезный

followed the doctor's instructions выполнял указания врача

completely recovered полностью выздоровел

Exercise 14. Read the text