Matching
Exercise 18. Supply the missing words take, have, feel, write out, cut, be, fall, injure, prescribe, recover, send for, pick up, call
1. One can _____ drugs. 2. One can _____ of poor health.
3. One can _____ a prescription. 4. One can _____ ill.
5. One can _____ a headache. 6. One can _____ from the illness.
7. One can _____ feverish / sick. 8. One can _____ some infection.
9. One can _____ one’s hand. 10. One can _____ the ambulance.
11. One can _____ an injection. 12. One can _____ a doctor.
Exercise 19. Complete the sentences using the words on the right.
1. One can feel… a) pain, headache, temperature
2. One can have… b) sick, feverish, dizzy, vomited
3. One can be … c) of poor health, hurt
4. One can prescribe… d) ill, over
5. One can fall … e) medicine, drugs, pills, drops
6. One can take … f) temperature, blood pressure, blood-count
Exercise 20. What is meant by these sentences?
My throat has been bad for some time. 2. Influenza throats were common. 3. He developed diabetes and was invalided out of the Services. 4. He felt a heart attack coming on. 5. He felt sick at his stomach. 6. The doctor gave me a thorough examination. 7. The doctor flashed the light in his eye, took his blood, wired him for the electrocardiograph. 8. I thought I’d better admit her to be on the safe side. 9. What are the medical facilities at Pengard? 10. He gave me some opening medicine. 11. His face was relaxed in open-eyed sleep. 12. It spoiled my sleep for the rest of the night. 13. He’s gone down with a cold. 14. As a matter of fact, he’s laid up.
Exercise 21. Memorize the following words and word combinations. Compose sentences of your own using them.
to complain of feeling feverish, to shiver slightly with cold, to be susceptible to drafts, with one lung lightly affected, to be ill with the flu, the doctor has been sent for, to be in Infirmary;
he was discharged, he was wounded in the foot, he was crippled, to lose one’s sight, to contract polio, to be paralysed from the neck down.
a pediatric outpatient department, a referral slip, a male ward, a head nurse, the nurses’ station on the surgical ward, recent postoperatives, to record on each patient’s chart the medications he has been given, notations regarding any significant change in the patient’s course.
a jar full of thermometers, to give one an injection, to make one sleep, to give a shot of penicillin, an emergency removal of one’s appendix, a patient’s history, an acutely inflamed appendix, a patient who had his gall bladder removed, an ulcer of the stomach.
to recover from one’s operation, to develop postoperative complications, to feed intravenously, an inoperable cancer, to catch mumps, to be completely paralysed down the right side, to suffer pains and cramps in one’s leg.
a blood test, emergency information, diagnoses and treatments, lens prescription, to check one’s temperature, to have a chest X-ray taken, medical facilities, a chronic cold and cough, a white blood count, to have blood drawn, to draw blood from a patient, to be transfused while under anesthesia, to pour blood in, to send one for a blood test, to be Rh negative, to be Rh positive.
to have a fracture of the hand, a stretcher, a first-aid room, to make a quick examination, to load a syringe, to ease the pain, the doctor was splinting his arm, to keep somebody quiet with sedatives, to refuse all medication, a sling for an arm in a plaster cast, to keep one’s foot elevated for a few days, to remove the case, to be discharged in a cast or on crutches, to be taken out from the cast, his lungs weren’t expanding fully, he had fractured my skull.
Exercise 22. Use these common idiomatic phrases in a natural context. First make sure that you know what they mean.
to be sick at heart; 2. to break somebody’s heart; 3. from the bottom of one’s heart; 4. to be sick and tired (of); 5. to make no bones about something; 6. to give somebody a pain in the neck; 7. to sleep like a log; 8. to sleep the sleep of the just; 9. to hurt somebody’s feelings; 10. to feel one’s feet; 11. to feel low.
Exercise 23. Use these proverbs or sayings in a natural context. First make sure that you know what they mean.
Good health is above wealth. 2. Who shall decide when doctors disagree? 3. Out of sight, out of mind. 4. The nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh. 5. Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.
Exercise 24. Use these common phrases in a natural context speaking of a person’s health. First make sure that you know what they mean.
It’s the old story. 2. Broadly speaking… 3. Yes and no. 4. Up to a point. 5. It’s more fuss and bother than it’s worth. 6. In nine cases out of ten … 7. All things considered … 8. The same to you. 9. One never can tell.
