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4.Patient: Doctor, I keep talking to myself.
Doctor. I’m not surprised. No one else would listen to you!
5.A patient comes to see a doctor and says that he has a pain in his leg. Doctor. Oh, it’s very serious. How long have you been having it? Patient. For 2 weeks.
Doctor. Why haven’t you visited me earlier?
Patient. You see no matter what I am ill with my wife tells me to stop smoking.
*to afford [o'fbid] — позволить себе
Еж. 15* a) Give your view points.
1.For tobacco companies cigarettes mean money. For us they mean diseases.
2.In the USA there is no more smoking in offices, restaurants, planes or other public places. Do you think it’s a good idea? Most people think it is.
3.We often speak about water pollution and air pollution, but we sel dom speak about noise pollution, which also has a bad effect on our health.
b)There are many English proverbs about health. Read and translate some of them .
1.Health is above wealth.
2.Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
3.An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Ex. 16. Give extensive answers.
1.Where do you usually get treatment when you fall ill? What kind of treatment do you get there?
2.Have you ever been taken to hospital? If so, say how long you stayed there and what you were treated for?
3.What are the symptoms of flu?
4.How were you treated for flu when you were last ill?
5.What do you usually do to get well as soon as possible?
6.What is it necessary to do to prevent serious diseases?
7.Why is it necessary to go to a dentist regularly for the examination of your teeth?