- •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
General training exercises
1. Fill in the words from the chart below:
a) 1. The England football captain has ... his ankle, and won't be playing in the next week's international against Belgium. 2. The soldier had a bullet ... in his thigh. 3. I have a terrible ... in my chest. 4. When I cough, it really... . 5. Two people died and ten were ... in a train crash yesterday. 6. I played tennis for the first time this year yesterday. Today my whole body... . 7. Two football fans were seriously ... in a knife attack by rival fans earlier today. 8. Please don't touch my ankle. It's too ... to move. 9. Doctor: I want to feel your bones. If it ..., tell me and I'll stop. 10. The noise of the traffic made my head... . 11. Put that thing down- you might ... someone with it. 12. One of the players ... his knee and had to be carried off. 13. Gunman killed two people and ... six others in an attack today. 14. As Joe was coming home a sudden ... in his heart made him stop and lean against the wall of a house. 15. Wet weather often makes old people feel an ... in their bones. 16. He fell down the stairs and ... his leg. 17. This heavy suit-case makes my arms ... . 18. Did you ... yourself? 19. After scarlet fever complications developed (set in) and they had to be ... for a month before the patient was completely... . 20. The open air life on the farm ... of his headaches. 21. The doctor said that if I followed his instructions, I should soon be ... of the disease. 22. Nowadays malaria can be ... with drugs. 23. The doctors did everything to ... her, but she died three months later.
Notes: The following words are often confused:
Verb Noun Adjective
to hurt
to ache an ache
A pain painful
to injure an injury injured
to wound a wound wounded
People are wounded in wars or in a fight, and injured in an accident. Both are more serious than hurt. Ache as a noun is mainly found in the following compounds: backache, earache, stomachache, toothache. For other parts of the body we say a pain in my elbow, etc. An ache is dull and continuous, a pain can be more extreme and more sudden. When ache and hurt are used as verbs, it is more common to find them in the Present Simple than in the Present Continuous to describe pain now. My leg hurts.
Cure - heal - treat
Cure: means to bring back to health. Heal: means to make healthy after wounds of any kind. Treat: means to take care of with medicines. It refers to the process of curing.
2. Supply the missing words dressed, checked, filled, X-rayed, extracted, pulled out, treated, limping, hurt, rendered, inoculated, injured, unwell, scalded, sprained, hurt, fallen ill, ambulance, catching, hospital, ill, sick:
1. If you have a bad tooth you must have it.... 2. If you have ТВ you must have your chest ... regularly. 3. If you have a prescription written you must have it at the pharmacist's. 4. If you often have headaches you must have your blood-pressure ... . 5. If there is a cavity in your tooth you must have it ... . 6. If your tooth is rotten you must have it… … 7. If you wounded your leg you must have it ... .8. The other day I witnessed a terrible accident. A bus collided with a motor car. The drivers were badly ... . Many passengers were also seriously ... . They were transported to the nearest ... in an ... which the policeman had called for. They were ... first aid. 9. "Why do you speak so softly?" - "I am... ." 10. "Why are you ..., John? - I... my ankle yesterday, while playing tennis." 11. "I've just ... my hand." - "You must have some ointment on it. Then it won't ... ." 12. Helen's two children have with scarlet fever. They were taken to the ... at once as scarlet fever is a very ... disease. It is such a pity they were not ... against it. 13. It goes without saying that healthy men are happier than ...men. 14. When I am... I stay in bed. 15. The meat was bad, and made everybody .... 16. He went to the hospital to visit a ...friend of his. 17. When I travel by boat I always become ... 18. I've been very..., but I am much better now. 18. He felt... and left in the middle of the game.