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Task 1 Read the following words:

few, quip, rule, most, quinsy, tissue, quite, delute, old, lunar, told, quiet, grew, question, exclude, true, cold, new, post.

Task 2 Read the following words, translate them and state the part of speech:

estimate, separate, dislike, perform, decrease, infancy, significant, extensible, considerable, discover, abnormal, summarize, efficiency, weakness, academician, clinician, complete, exchange, organize, constant, cleanness.

Task 3 Make up Infinitive Perfect Passive Constructions from the following verbs using the table given below:

observe, find out, prove, accomplish, count, prolong.

Forms of Infinitive

Infinitive	Active	Passive
Indefinite Continuous Perfect Perfect Continuous	to determine to be determining to have determined to have been determining	to be determined - to have been determined -

Task 4 Put up questions to the words in bold type (in writing):

1 The treatment has been prolonged as the patient is still complaining of a general weakness.

2 The patient will have been sent to the X-ray examination by the end of the week.

3 The number of red blood cells had been counted before the surgeon began the blood transfusion.

Task 5 Read the sentences and say what construction is used to emphasize the part of the sentence. Translate the sentences:

1 It was not until 1911 that a first really successful theory of atomic structure was developed by Rutherford.

2 It is on the large surface of the alveoli that oxygen passes from the air into the blood vessels.

3 It is per minute that the human being breathes in 300-330 ml of oxygen and breathes out 225–250 ml of carbon dioxide.

4 It was not until Roentgen discovered X-rays that scientists were able to examine many inner organs.

Task 6 Translate the second part of the sentence using the rules of sequence of tenses:

1) Thescientistsdeterminedthat…a) рівень білка в крові становить у середньому 5 – 8%;b) плазма є рідинною частиною крові.

2) OurprofessorofPhysiologysaidthat…a) капіляри було винайдено у 1661 Марчелло Мальпігі, професором медицини з Болонії;b) першою людиною, яка спостерігала течію крові крізь капіляри за допомогою мікроскопа, був голландський вчений Антоній Ван Левенгук.

3) Thedoctorthoughtthat…a) температура знизиться після курсу відповідного лікування;b) ці ліки заспокоять біль.

Task 7 Read and translate the following sentences:

1 The air we breathe in enters the lungs through the trachea.

2 The investigations the scientists have carried out show that the process of inhibition can be produced by sleep.

3 We were told the patient had slept soundly the night before.

4 The most interesting lecture the professor delivered last week was that on conditioned reflexes.

5 The food the children receive for their proper development must contain many vitamins.

Task 8 Translate the following sentences into English in writing:

1 Відомо, що за одну хвилину вся кров у тілі людини проходить крізь легені та всмоктує 1/3 літра кисню.

2 Коли видихають, зовнішні міжреберні м’язи та м’язи діафрагми розслаблюються.

3 Відомо, що швидкий сон триває менш ніж півгодини.

4 Встановлено, що еритроцити виявляються найчисленнішими клітинними елементами крові.

5 Необхідно виявляти перший серцевий тон на поверхні шлуночків або клапанів.

6 При глибокому вдихові вдихаються 1,5 – 2 літри повітря.

Task 9 Get ready to deliver a lecture on Physiology of the nervous system. Touch upon such items in it as a) the structure of the brain; b) the functions of cortex; c) the importance of sleep for the human being; d) conditioned and unconditioned reflexes.

Task 10 Get ready to ask the lecturer 5 – 6 questions on the Physiology of the nervous system.