- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Read and study the word list:
- •II. Read and translate the text. What is Life?
- •III. What is missing? Find the words in reading:
- •IV. Answer the questions:
- •Grammar and speaking:
- •III. Compare two Voices and translate sentences:
- •Reading and speaking
- •I. Read the text below. Are Viruses Alive?
- •II. Take part in the discussion of the virus role for the disease origin. Listening and Speaking
- •1. Listen and answer the questions: Text 3 What is life? The physicist who sparked a revolution in biology
- •Test yourself
- •Exams situation
- •4. Translate the sentences:
- •5. Remember the combination in order to write and speak correctly:
- •Over to you
- •Reading and writing Academic style. Structure and Cohesion
- •Lesson 2
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Read and study wordlist
- •I. Read and translate the text. Preface
- •II. What is missing? Find the words in reading:
- •III. Answer the questions:
- •IV. Choose the correct answer:
- •V. Grammar and speaking:
- •Vocabulary to the text below
- •The role of theory in question formulation
- •Reading and speaking
- •1. Here are some brief biographies of the prominent scientists. Read and translate them.
- •2. Ask questions to each other about biography. Reading and writing
- •Listening and speaking
- •I. Fill each gap using one of the following auxiliary verbs. They may be used in more than one place.
- •Inventions: antibiotics
- •II. Before watching study the new vocabulary:
- •III. After watching answer the following questions:
- •Discussion
- •IV. Write a brief summary of the text.
- •II. Answer the questions:
- •II. Take part in the discussion of recent advances in clinical biology based on the text:
- •Plenary Lecture 15
- •Role of Professional Antigen Presenting Cells in the Genesis of Immune Response to Protein Therapeutics
- •Dr. Suryararathi Dasgupta
- •III. What are the main advances? Express your opinion using phrases: It’s rather surprising, I wonder about, I’d like to stress. Test yourself
- •2. Read, translate sentences. Find the verbs in Active and Passive Voice:
- •3. Read the text. Define the verbs used in different Tenses. How are processes and procedures described.
- •Exams situation
- •Lesson 3 Topic: Teaching activity of a scientist
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Read and study the wordlist:
- •II. Read and translate the text. Medical student education in the United States of America
- •III. Answer the questions?
- •IV. Try to activate the new vocabulary in the following tasks:
- •V. Pay attention to different cases of using words:
- •23 Cases of using ‘hands-on’ from 118. Try to choose the meaning:
- •Grammar and speaking
- •Department Obstetrics Gynecology
- •IV. Read the text. What means of teaching are used?
- •Types of examination
- •V. Discuss the process of teaching and learning. Reading and speaking
- •Listening and writing
- •I. Try to understand the text and answer questions.
- •II. Listen to the text writing down English equivalents for the following Russian words and expressions.
- •III. Write down the main idea of the report.
- •Over to you Exam’s situation
- •Lesson 4 Topic: Curriculum Development. Curriculum Overview and Organisation
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Read and study the wordlist:
- •II. Read and translate the text.
- •III. Answer the questions:
- •IV. Give Russian equivalents of the following phrases:
- •V. Pay attention to the importance of words and collocation.
- •VI. Try to use the new vocabulary in your own sentences and questions. Grammar and speaking
- •I. Some information about future tenses:
- •II. Pay attention to the use of the future construction. Compose your own sentences.
- •Reading and speaking
- •I. Read and translate the text. Dmd Programm
- •II. Read the sentences in the text which imply the ideas:
- •Listening and speaking
- •Reading and writing Some common types of error
- •Comparative constructions
- •Showing non-equivalence
- •Over to you
- •Exams situation
- •Lesson 5 Topic: Specialities. How to become a good specialist and to develop professional experience?
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Answer the questions:
- •II. Study the text. Choosing a specialty
- •III. Here is a random selection of more than 20 solutions from the 4864 found. Translate them.
- •Grammar and speaking
- •II. Look through the text. How possibility, capacity or ability, impossibility, probability, opinions, volition wanting are expressed?
- •Reading and speaking
- •I. Look through the lists of qualifications.
- •Listening and writing
- •Writing tips
- •III. Read the following notes and write a reply of around 200 words.
- •Exam’s situation
- •Lesson 6 Topic: Recent advances in medicine. Narrow field of investigation.
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •1. Read and translate the text from the field of recent advances in clinical medicine.
- •Grammar and speaking
- •Reading and speaking
- •1. Read and translate the text from the section. “Recent advances in clinical medicine”:
- •2. Use the following words in sentences of your own:
- •III. Comment on the basic points of the text using phrases:
- •IV. Give more information on the medical problems highlighted in the text. Reading and writting
- •I. Read and translate the text.
- •I. Write a brief summary of the text
- •II. Translate the following statements and share your opinion on them.
- •III. Translate the abstract.
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •2. Read and try to remember.
- •3. Complete the table with words from a and b opposite. The first one has been done for you.
- •4. Make word combinations using a word from each box. Look at b and c opposite to help you.
- •5. Complete the conversation. Look at b opposite to help you.
- •6. Choose the correct word to complete each sentence. Look at b and c opposite to help you.
- •Remember the vocabulary:
- •Grammar and speaking
- •Shall and should in use
- •Reading and speaking
- •Reading and writing
- •Over to you:
- •Lesson 8 Topic: Symptoms and signs. Diagnosis and treatment
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •1. Read and translate the text The Pancreas and Diabetes
- •Grammar and speaking
- •Grammar in Use. Passives and pseudo-passives
- •Reading and speaking
- •1. Pay attention to the ways of describing problems:
- •Reading and writing
- •Lesson 9 medical recent techniques
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •1. Read and translate the text. Therapeutic Angiogenesis: How Does it Work?
- •Grammar and speaking Position of adverb (grammar in use). Infinitive
- •Introduction
- •Listening and speaking Angiogenesis
- •Reading and writing
- •Case Study 16-3: Diabetes Treatment with an Insulin Pump
- •2. Case study questions
- •Lesson 10 How to start a research. Types of studies. Areas of medical researches in medicine
- •Vocabulary and reading
- •I. Read and translate the text
- •Variables
- •II. Complete the table with words:
- •III. Complete the sentences with a word from the text.
- •Grammar and speaking
- •4. The construction “rather than” is translated as «а не».
- •Reading and speaking
- •I. Read and try to understand the text “All about clinical trials”. All About Clinical Trials
- •II. Answer the questions:
- •III. Write down English equivalents:
- •I. Try to learn the given abstract by heart.
- •II. Write down the algorithm of the research being undertaken. Reading and writing
- •IV. Write a brief summary of the text.
- •V. There are the following means of data presentation:
- •VI. Some people feel that approximating is unscientific. What do you think?
- •VII. Line graphs. Pie charts:
- •VIII. Practise describing the chart. Medical research
- •Over to you
Grammar and speaking
May is preferred when statements about very probable facts are made, especially in scientific, academic and technical context. Might is preferred when the speaker is making a polite suggestion or giving polite advice. Might is preferred when announcing decisions. May is preferred when asking for permission. Might is preferred when a reporting clouse is used with the reporting verb in the past tense. Might (+have) is preferred when we talk about something that was possible but did not happen. What is the difference between may and might in the following?
a) It takes so long by train. You may/might as well fly.
b) If you explain the problem, I may/might be able to help you.
c) They may/might be just jokes, but a lot of people take them seriously.
d) Don’t do it. You may/might end up losing all your money.
Sort these sentences into five types using the following descriptions:
Type 1: Talking about how certain/definite you feel something is.
Type 2: Giving yourself or someone else an order, instruction or advice.
Type 3: Saying how you think things should be.
Type 4: Imagining what a past event or situation was like.
Type 5: Saying what is forbidden.
a) Do excuse me. I must be going back to Anne now.
b) A Muslim wedding, in the street? That must have been nice.
c) (Notice at a railway station) Passengers must not cross the line.
d) What’s he going to do with all his money? He must be worth a couple of million.
e) There should be a free health service. Everybody must be treated equally.
f) I mustn’t be selfish. I’ll ask her if she wants to share it.
g) And the other thing you must do is have a meal in Joe’s Restaurant. It’s great.
h) Getting a letter like that must have been very upsetting for you.
i) The government must do something about all this traffic, it’s crazy.
j) We must not be afraid to stand up for what we believe.
k) With music, you are allowed to photocopy the words, but legally we mustn’t copy the music itself.
- May is used talk about the typical characteristics of something. This is especially so in academic styles. It is also used to make polite requests. Might is possible in B1(d), but would sound extremely formal.
- Might is often used for giving polite or indirect advice. It is also often used when the speaker is assessing on idea / thinking of what to do. It is also often used in past reported clauses after verbs such as thought, said, knew, suspected, wondered etc. Might is used when we are talking about something that was possible, but did not happen.
- May and might are close in meaning when they simply refer to the possibly of something happening. May tends to be preferred for slightly, stronger possibilities.
- Must is used for saying that we feel something is sure to be true, or for how we imagine a situation was likely to have been in the past. It is also used for giving orders, advice and instructions, especially to yourself, and for saying what is the rule and what is forbidden.
Observations
- In formal written styles, especially in texts explaining systems or rules and regulations, may is preferred to night when referring to possible events.
- Must is used for referring to absolute obligations, rules and conditions.
May, might and must in fixed expressions
Now try to imagine situations in which you would use there expressions.
- Write a sentence using each one.
a) I might have guessed …
b) (X) may arise from …
c) If I may say so, …
d) It’s what you might call …
e) I must admit, …
f) I must say, …
g) May I offer my …