- •Министерство образования Российской Федерации
- •Vocabulary
- •Text 1 Taking Care of Your Health
- •Vocabulary
- •2. Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs:
- •3. Give Russian equivalents to the following:
- •4. Give English equivalents to the following:
- •5. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases in English:
- •6. Replace the underlined parts of the sentences by the words and phrases from the text:
- •7. Translate into English:
- •Text 2 Ten Ways to Treat a Cold
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs:
- •3. Give Russian equivalents to the following:
- •4. Give English equivalents to the following:
- •5. Translate into English:
- •Dialogues At the Physician's
- •At the Surgeon's
- •At the Dentist's
- •Exercise 2. Complete then dialogues:
- •General training exercises
- •1. Fill in the words from the chart below:
- •Verb Noun Adjective
- •A pain painful
- •3. Give the correct answer:
- •4. Answer the questions:
- •5. Translate into English:
- •6. Read and say what is happening in each short scene. Do any of the scenes you read remind you of a similar experience of your own? Tell other students about it.
- •7. Use the following words to fill the gaps in this joke. One of these words is used twice.
- •Agree or disagree with the following statements:
- •9. Match the definitions:
- •10. Read and translate the dialogue. Stage the dialogue. A Visit To The Doctor
- •1. Render into Russian: Alternative Medicine
- •Homeopathy
- •The law of similars
- •The single medicine
- •The minimum dose
- •Is it effective?
- •Small But Deadly: Aids.
- •Malaria
- •Cholera
10. Read and translate the dialogue. Stage the dialogue. A Visit To The Doctor
Doctor: Well, what's the matter with you, Mr. Walker?
Mr. Walker: You'd better ask me what is not the matter with me, doctor. I seem to be suffering from all the illnesses imaginable: headaches, backache, indigestion, constipation and pain in the stomach. To make things still worse, I've caught a cold. I've got a sore throat, and I'm constantly sneezing and coughing. To crown it all, I had an accident the other day, I hurt my right shoulder, leg and knee, and I nearly broke my neck. If I take a long walk, I get short of breath. In fact, I feel more dead than alive.
Doctor: I'm sorry to hear that. Anyhow, I hope things aren't as bad as you imagine. Let me examine you. Your heart, chest and lungs seem to be all right. Now open your mouth and show me your tongue. Now breathe in deeply through the nose ... There doesn't seem to be anything radically wrong with you, but it's quite clear that you are run down, and if you don't take care of yourself, you may have a nervous break down and have to go to hospital. I advise you first of all to stop worrying. Take a long rest, have regular meals, keep to a diet of salads and fruit, and very little meat. Keep of alcohol. If possible, give up smoking, at least for a time. Have this tonic made up and take two tablespoonfuls three times a day before meals. If you do this, I can promise you full recovery within two or three months.
Mr. Walker: And if I don't, doctor?
Doctor: Then you'd better make your will, if you haven't done so!
Mr. Walker: I see. Well, thank you, doctor. I shall have to think it over and decide which is the lesser evil - follow your advice or prepare for a better world.
1. Render into Russian: Alternative Medicine
Well, the first teaching job I had I was teaching at a secondary school in West Africa. And this school was way out in the bush, a long way from the nearest town. And it was a fairly kind of dusty area, the school, and very few of the boys had shoes and most used to walk around with bare feet. And there were scorpions in the area, and almost every day one or other of the students would get a scorpion sting. Now these scorpions weren't fatal but the bite was, the sting was very very painful and if it weren't treated it would keep you in bed for a week, you wouldn't be able to walk for a week. And the usual thing to do was to go down to the hospital, which was one of the few parts of the town that had electricity, and the hospital would give you an injection and that would help the pain, and after say two or three days you'd be able to get up and walk around again and resume lessons. But many of the students at school preferred to go to a traditional doctor, and now and again I would be asked to take a student with a scorpion sting down to this doctor on my motorbike. And the treatment that the traditional doctor would give the patient was extraordinary; it was completely different from anything else that I've ever seen. The first thing he used to do was to mix up a very kind of muddy looking liquid, which the student would drink. And then there'd he some kind of chanting from the traditional doctor, and he would start with his fingers on the affected foot and would chant all the time and move his fingers gradually up the student's leg, up his body, and then along his arm to the end of his fingers. And apparently what was happening I was told was that he was supposedly moving the poison, or moving the sting, up through the student's body and then out of his fingers and therefore somehow getting rid of the sting altogether. And the extraordinary thing about this was that it worked, and the moment the sting supposedly left the student's finger he was able to, you know, the pain was gone and he was able to walk, and very often I wouldn't give him a lift back to the school on my motorbike, he'd go and stay and do some shopping and then walk back on his own. So this was somehow or other a far more effective treatment than could be provided by Western medicine at the hospital.