Step 3. Oral speech practice

Topic: At the Therapeutist's (Part II)

Prepare yourself to the conversation according to the topic. Carry out the following instructions:

I. Read and memorize the words and word-combinations:

to stand quietly стояти спокійно. swollen опухлий

to dilate розширювати (ся)

to have murmur in one's heart мати шум

у серці

to be coated бути обкладеним (про язик)

II. Read the dialogue and try to understand it:

Doctor: First of all take your temperature, please. Patient: All right.

D.: What is your temperature? P.: My temperature is 37.8°.

D.: Let me examine you. Open your mouth and say "Ah", please. Show me your throat. Oh, your tongue is thickly coated and your tonsils are swollen and red. Now strip to the waist, please. I'll examine your heart and lungs. Breathe deeply. Now don't breathe.

There are raies in your lungs. Have you a bad cough? Stand quietly.

P-: Yes, I have.

D.: Turn round, please. The borders of your heart are dilated and there is murmur in your heart. Let me palpate you now. Lie down

on the coach. I'll check your liver. Do you feel any pain in your abdomen?

P.: Yes, I do.

D.: Show me where have you pain. Is it painful here? P.: Yes, it is.

D.: Now you may stand up. Dress and sit down. Let me measure your blood pressure. It is normal.

(to be continued)

HI. Carry out the following exercises remembering the doctor's and patient's sentences:

1. a) Read the sentences used by a doctor during the examination:

1. Open your mouth, please. 2. Say "Ah". 3. Strip to the waist. 4. Breathe deeply. Don't breathe. 5. Stand quietly. 6. Lie down on the coach. 7. Show me where have you pain. 8. Dress now.

b) Say your indications and requests to your patient using the correct form of the verb:

Model: to open the mouth.— Open your mouth. to take the temperature, to show the tongue, to stand quietly, to strip to the waist, to breathe deeply, to lie down on the coach.

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2. a) Read the doctor's questions about localization of the pain:

1. Do you feel any pain here? 2. Where do you feel the pain? І. Show me the place where you feel the pain. 4. In what region do you Bhave your pain? | b) Fill in the intervals with the verbs in the correct form:

| 1. ... you feel any pain yesterday? 2. Where ... you feel that pain? |8. Show me the place where you ... that pain yesterday. 4. In what region (.., you.... your pain?

" 3. a) Read the sentences used by the doctor during the examination

of the chest:

1. The borders of your heart are dilated. 2. The sounds of your heart

are dull. 3. You have murmur in your heart. 4. There are rales in your

lungs. 5. Your lungs are normal. ( b) Fill in the intervals with the necessary words:

S 1. The right border of ... is dilated. 2. The sounds of your heart |are ... . 3. There are ... in your lungs. 4. You have murmur in your ..,•„

J 4. a) Read the doctor's information to his patient:

л 1 • Your tongue is thickly coated. 2. Your tonsils are swollen and red. |3. You have high (low) blood pressure. 4. Your pulse is accelerated. ' b) Fill in the intervals with the necessary words:

I 1. You have low blood ... . 2. Your pulse ... normal. 3. Your right tonsil ... swollen and ... . 4. Your tongue is thickly ... .

IV. Make up your conversation to the second part of the topic. {Keep the following consistency:

I Give your indications and requests to your patient during the Bexamination: to take his (her) temperature, to open his (her) mouth, llto show a tongue, to strip to the waist, to breathe deeply and others. |t Ask about localization of his (her) pains.

| Examine the chest and say some data to your patient (if it is |necessary). '^:

Inform your patient about his (her) condition of health.

LESSON NINE

Граматика: І. Незалежний дієприкметниковий зворот (The Absolute Participle Construction).

2. Об'єктний дієприкметниковий зворот {The Objective Participle Construction).

3. Конструкція to be going (to). Тексти: A. Medical Examination (Part II). B, Gifts of Nature's Pharmacy. C. A Joke. At the Therapeutist's (Part III).

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