5. Read the text and translate it: Our First Examination Session

To be a good doctor in future means to study well at the Institute from the day of admission till the day of graduation.

We must remember that we cannot be bad doctors as we shall be responsible for the protection of people's health and their lives. Our future work will require deep knowledge and all our abilities.

To achieve this high aims the students of our group decided not to waste any time and prepare well for our first examinations at the Institute.

The dean fixed all the dates of our examinations. But in addition to examinations we had some credit tests. The most difficult test was in Physics but we passed it successfully ahead of time. The first examination was in inorganic Chemistry. We think that this subject is the most difficult of all the subjects in the first year. So we began to work hard to pass it successfully.

The examination began. The students who entered the room took examination cards and had some time to prepare their answers. The cards contained the material studied during the term. Most of the students answered well and got good and excellent marks, it was easier to take the next examinations and all the students of our group passed it well.

We were a little tired after the examinations and credit tests but happy that the first session was over.

6. Translate the phrases and quote the sentences in which they are used in the text:

мы не можем быть плохими врачами; готовиться к первым экзаменам; определить дату; сдать заранее; взять экзаменационный билет; было легче сдавать.

7. Complete the sentences according to the text.

1. If we want to be good professionals we must …

2. We should possess deep knowledge because …

3. During our first examination session we had some …

4. The most difficult exam of this session …

5. When our first session was over we …

8. Make up five questions based on the text and answer them.

9. Discuss the following questions.

1. What can you do to pass your first examination session successfully?

2. What is the most difficult subject of all?

3. What subject is the most necessary for your future work?

Lesson 4.

1. Exchange your ideas on the following questions:

1. What gives a person possibility to be a good doctor?

2. What traits of character should a good doctor possess?

3. What are the difficulties of your future profession?

2. Before reading: guess the meaning of the following words and phrases:

Theoretical and practical subjects, assistant doctors, to diagnose a disease, protection, therapeutist, Hippocrates Oath, a real art.

3. Read and translate the text. Our Future Profession.

In Russia hundreds of thousands of young people study at different medical institutes. They study numerous theoretical and special subjects. They have practical training during which they do the work of nurses and assistant doctors. Such a course of studies helps them to gain much knowledge of medicine, which will give them the possibility to diagnose different diseases and treat people.

But medical students must realize that it is not easy to be a good doctor. A good doctor must have not only deep knowledge of a particular field of medicine such as surgery or therapy. He must love people and have a kind heart. He must give all his knowledge, all his abilities, all his talent, and all his time to people, to the protection of their health.

One of the prominent Russian therapeutists Prof. M.P.Konchalovsky thinks that a person may be a poor writer, he may be a bad painter or an actor but a person cannot be and must not be a bad doctor.

Medical students must understand well all the hardships of their future profession. They must remember that it will be often difficult to diagnose a disease; sometimes it will be even more difficult to cure it. But a good doctor will always do his best to gain his patient’s confidence. And a confidence of a patient in his doctor is a “valuable” remedy.

Did you hear about the Hippocrates Oath before you entered the Institute? What does it read? It reads, “I shall enter any house for the good of the patient. I shall not do my patient any harm” – these are the words from Hippocrates Oath. And they must be not only words for medical students. They must become the motto of their life.

Medical students must remember that it is the great art to treat patients but not an ordinary trade. It is one of the professions, which requires a real calling for it.

Notes:

1. to do one’s best – делать все возможное

2. to gain confidence – завоевать доверие

3. calling – призвание

4. Translate the following phrases and read out the sentences with them.

Работать медсестрами и ассистентами врачей, получить знания по медицине, лечить людей, защита здоровья, трудности будущей профессии, ставить диагноз, завоевать доверие, лекарство, вред, девиз всей жизни, призвание.

5. Find synonyms for the words from a) using the words from b).

a) To treat, difficulty, trade, to realize, poor, different, to study

b) Profession, bad, hardship, to cure, to gain knowledge, numerous, to understand

6. Complete the sentences using the text.

1. Theoretical subjects and practical training help medical students to … 2. During their practical studies the students… 3. A good doctor must … and must have … 4. It is often difficult to … even for a good doctor. 5. A doctor must do his best to …

7. Answer the questions from ex. 1 according to the text.

8. Find in the text the sentences with modal verbs and put questions to them.

9. Change the tense of the following sentences, make some other necessary changes.

1. They study numerous theoretical and special subjects. 2. A course of studies will give the possibility to diagnose different diseases and treat people. 3. He gave all his knowledge and all his abilities to the protection of patient’s health. 4. It will be more difficult to cure a disease.

10. Translate the sentences into English.

1. Определять болезнь – одна из самых важных составляющих работы врача. 2. Изучение теоретических и практических предметов по медицине дает возможность стать врачом и лечить людей. 3. Хороший врач никогда не принесет вреда своему пациенту. 4. Мое призвание – быть терапевтом. 5. Врач не может и не должен быть плохим специалистом. 6. Это лекарство вылечило его от кашля.

Content.

1. About myself ………………………………………………… 3

2. At the institute ……………………………………………….. 8

3. My working day ………………………………………………21

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