- •Часть I. Choosing a Career.
- •Часть II. Healthy and Happy.
- •1. Самостоятельно изучите тексты и выполните упражнения из учебника
- •2. Переведите и выучите наизусть слова и выражения из “Active Vocabulary”
- •3. Выполните Revision and Consolidation exercises на стр. 99-102, 114-118,
- •Часть III. Fit and Well.
- •1. Самостоятельно изучите тексты и выполните упражнения из учебника
- •2. Переведите и выучите наизусть слова и выражения из “Active Vocabulary”
- •3. Выполните Revision and Consolidation exercises на стр. 190-192, 197-198 –
Заочное отделение 3 семестр II курс
МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЕ РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ
ПО ПРАКТИКЕ УСТНОЙ И ПИСЬМЕННОЙ РЕЧИ
Часть I. Choosing a Career.
1. Самостоятельно изучите тексты и выполните упражнения из учебника
Achievement на стр. 5-69. Обязательно выполните следующие
упражнения: стр. 6-7; упр.11 стр.11; упр.13 стр.12; упр.4 стр.15; упр.2-3
стр.17-19; упр.8 стр.22; упр.4 стр. 37-40; стр. 41-42; упр.9 стр.45; упр.11
стр.46; стр.53-54; стр.58-59; стр.63.
2. Переведите и выучите наизусть слова и выражения из “Active Vocabulary”
по теме Choosing a Career (стр.4-8 данного документа).
3. Выполните Revision and Consolidation exercises на стр. 27-32, 49-52, 60, 68-
69 и выполните переводы из данных упражнений в письменном виде в
тетради.
4. Сделайте тест Choosing a Career и проверьте правильность по ключу
(Бендецкая М.Е. «Практика письменной английской речи / Practice of
Written English» стр.75,115 или стр. 21-30 данного документа).
5. Напишите 5 эссе по темам, перечисленным в Essay Topics, тема Choosing a
Career (стр.3). Размер эссе должен составлять 1,5 - 2 страницы. В эссе
должны быть подчеркнуты слова и выражения из «Active Vocabulary». Все
эссе должны быть предоставлены в письменном виде в тетради.
Часть II. Healthy and Happy.
1. Самостоятельно изучите тексты и выполните упражнения из учебника
Achievement на стр. 86-171. Обязательно выполните следующие
упражнения: стр.87-90; упр.93 стр. 15; упр.3-4 стр. 104-107; упр.12-16
стр. 109; упр.1 стр.119; упр.8 стр.122-123; упр.4,5 стр. 130; упр.9-11
стр.132; упр.1 стр.142; стр.145-146.
2. Переведите и выучите наизусть слова и выражения из “Active Vocabulary”
по теме Healthy and Happy (стр.9-16).
3. Выполните Revision and Consolidation exercises на стр. 99-102, 114-118,
125-127, 137-140, 155-156 - переводы в письменном виде.
4. Сделайте тест Healthy and Happy и проверьте правильность по ключу
(стр.31-44 данного документа).
5. Напишите 4 эссе по темам, перечисленным в Essay Topics (стр.3), тема
Healthy and Happy. Размер эссе должен составлять 1,5 - 2 страницы. В эссе
должны быть подчеркнуты слова и выражения из «Active Vocabulary». Все
эссе должны быть предоставлены в письменном виде в тетради. Материалы по ПУПР, 3 семестр 2 курс з.о.
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Часть III. Fit and Well.
1. Самостоятельно изучите тексты и выполните упражнения из учебника
Achievement на стр. 172-203. Обязательно выполните следующие
упражнения: стр.174-175, 179-181; упр.11 стр.184; стр.194-195.
2. Переведите и выучите наизусть слова и выражения из “Active Vocabulary”
по теме Fit and Well (стр.17-20).
3. Выполните Revision and Consolidation exercises на стр. 190-192, 197-198 –
переводы в письменном виде.
4. Сделайте тест Fit and Well и проверьте правильность по ключу (стр.45-51).
5. Напишите 6 эссе по темам, перечисленным в Essay Topics (стр.3), тема Fit
and Well. Размер эссе должен составлять 1,5 - 2 страницы. В эссе должны
быть подчеркнуты слова и выражения из «Active Vocabulary». Все эссе
должны быть предоставлены в письменном виде в тетради.
6. Сделайте письменно общий тест по всем темам (стр.52-53).
В аудиториях В-207 или Д-401 выполните компьютерные тесты Self-check
tests “Choosing a Career”, “Healthy and Happy”, “Fit and Well”. При выполнении
компьютерных тестов в течение семестра не забывайте при регистрации
вписывать свою фамилию, имя и номер группы.
!!! На первом занятии по практике устной и письменной речи вам необходимо
предоставить преподавателю:
1) 15 эссе с подчеркнутым вокабуляром
2) 11 “Revision and Consolidation exercises”(translation)
Требования к недифференцированному зачету по практике устной и
письменной речи английского языка.
Зачет складывается из вашего посещения занятий и нескольких заданий:
1) перевод из Revision and Consolidation exercises
2) 15 эссе
3) Revision Vocabulary Test
4) компьютерные тесты по трем темам
5) оценка за монолог (на занятии)
6) оценка за экзаменационный лексический тест (на занятии)
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Essay Topics
Choosing a Career
1. What is important in a job to you? What kind of job would (not) suit
you?
2. How to shine at a job interview?
3. Speak on the whole procedure of getting a job.
4. Speak about the teacher who had a lot of influence on you.
5. Choosing a career was not easy for me.
Healthy and Happy
1. Speak about your visit to a doctor.
2. Speak about the most serious illness you had. What treatment did
you get?
3. Describe your last visit to the dentist’s.
4. Persuade your friend to kick the bad habit of smoking / drinking /
drug-abuse.
Fit and Well
1. Why do we do sport?
2. A sport or a game you enjoy most.
3. Speak about the competition you watched or took part in.
4. How sporting are the British?
5. Sport in Belarus.
6. Describe your keep-fit programme.
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CHOOSING A CAREER
Active Vocabulary
Job / work / task / labour / toil
Business / profession / employment
Occupation / career / line / trade
What do you do for a living? /What are you? /What are you by profession? /
What do you do? / What line of business are you in?
Choosing isn’t easy
To take up / to follow a career / to take up smth as a career
To consider something as a career
To be still in two minds
To appeal to smb / to attract smb
To be cut out for
To have a vocation for smth
To be in one’s line
To follow in smb’s footsteps
To make / to arrive at / to come to / to reach a decision / to decide on (against)
something /
to make up one’s mind
To make a choice / to take a choice
To go in for something
To regret one’s choice
To find one’s vocation Ant: to miss one’s vocation
To commit oneself to one’s family
Climbing up the ladder of success
The world is one’s oyster
To make one’s way in the world
To get on in life / in the world
To work one’s way up from the bottom
To make one’s way up to the top
To achieve / accomplish / complete / finish
To achieve success / to succeed / to be a success
To land one’s dream job
Skills and Qualities
To have a background
What is your professional, educational background?
To have the right qualifications for the job
Skills: administrative, communication, language, listening, organisational
Leadership qualities
Bossy / domineering / lordly / overbearing
To be computer literate, to work with / on a computer
To pick smth up Материалы по ПУПР 2 курс 3 семестр з.о.
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Competence for / as / in smth
To be competent as / at / in smth
To have experience for / of doing smth
To be experienced in (doing) smth
To be skilled in / at smth
To be skilful with smth; Ant: unskilful
To be an expert at / in / on smth
To be good at
Hunting for a job
Job hunter / job seeker
Job centre / employment agency
Unemployed / jobless / out of a job / between jobs
To be on unemployment benefit / on the dole
To look for a job / to hunt for a job
To look through the advertisement page
To advertise for smth / smb, to advertise smth on TV, in a paper
To apply for a post
To fill in an application form
To send in an application, to accept an application; Ant: to turn down / reject an
application
A Job Interview
To attend an interview/ to sit an interview
Curriculum Vitae (CV) / Resume
To write a letter of application
Referees
Recommendation letters
Interviewee, interviewer
Applicants for a job
To be shortlisted for smth, to shortlist smb
To schedule an interview with smb
To have an appointment for an interview
Appearance counts
Not to sell oneself short
To stand out from the other applicants
To notify about the decision
To hire / employ / engage / recruit
To take smb on a job
To refuse point-blank
To take up a job / to take up a new appointment
To be accepted onto a course
To take a (training) course
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What are your working hours?
Full-time job
Part-time job
Temporary, seasonal job
Permanent / steady job
To be freelance
To moonlight / to do moonlighting
To do odd jobs
To work nine-to-five
To work shift-work
To be on flexi-time / to have flexible working hours
To work overtime
To take maternity leave (sick leave), to be on maternity leave (sick leave)
To be on the job / to be at work
How much do you earn?
Salary / wages / fee / income / earnings / pay
High salary; Ant: low salary
Well-paid; Ant: badly-paid job
To make a living / to earn a living, to get by on a salary/ to survive on a salary
To live within one’s income, Ant: to live beyond one’s income
Bread-winner / wage-earner
To get a twenty-dollar salary rise
The salary is raised by 20 per cent
To make a profit
Where do you work?
To occupy a post / position
To get / have / hold a position in / with a company
To apply for the position of
To appoint to the post of
To get promotion / to be promoted to
To recommend highly for promotion
Who are the people?
Employer, employee; head / chief / leader / boss / master
Chancellor / president
Headmaster, Headmistress, principal, the Director of Studies
Personnel director
Manager
Chairman
Slave-driver
High-flyer
Colleagues
Staff, executive, subordinate Материалы по ПУПР 2 курс 3 семестр з.о.
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What does the job involve?
Job responsibilities
Job description
To involve the use of languages
To involve opportunities to meet people
To deal / cope with problems
To be in charge of / to be responsible for
To boss smb about / around
To do smth on one’s own responsibility
To manage / to run / to direct / to handle
Manual job, unskilled jobs
Your attitude to work
Competent /efficient / skilled / trained / capable / experienced / qualified;
Ant: incompetent, inefficient, unskilled, incapable, inexperienced, unqualified
To be capable of doing smth
Fair to (on) smb / just to smb; Ant: unfair, unjust
Industrious / hard-working / diligent; Ant: lazy, idle
To be responsible for; Ant: irresponsible, negligent
Confident, self-confident; Ant: uncertain, timid, shy
To be committed to smth, smb
Motivation to work hard
To pull one’s socks up
To be up to one’s eyes in work
To keep one’s nose to the grindstone
Workaholic
To be an asset to the company
To learn by experience
To rest on one’s laurels
The Best job
Demanding, Challenging
Rewarding, Satisfying
Varied; Ant: unvaried
Job satisfaction
Chances of promotion
Good working conditions
To be under competent management
Fringe benefits / perks: sick pay, paid holiday, excellent pension plan / scheme
Career prospects / opportunities
The main attraction of a job
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The Worst Job
Frustrating
Backbreaking
Tough / difficult / painstaking
Low-status
Slave labour
Boring / monotonous / dull / tedious / uninteresting / flat
To get bored by smth; to bore smb to death / tears
To get smb down
Teaching
To make a good teacher
To be skillful with the subject
To be update in a subject
A well-behaved class
Manageable, Ant: unmanageable
To promote self-study
To have a bag full of tricks up one’s sleeve
To set up a high standard of / in achievement
To encourage good disciplinary habits, Ant: discourage
To keep a cool head
Attractive / charming / pleasing / enchanting, Ant: unattractive
Atmosphere: businesslike, instructive, creative, encouraging, relaxed,
tense, unpleasant, frustrating
To put scorn on children
To squash student’s motivation to study
To demand beyond one’s abilities
To have favourites and outcasts
To disrupt class
Breaches of discipline
Problem students
Overloaded curriculum
To get disillusioned
Resigning
To quit / to leave / to vacate / to resign / to give up
To hand in notice / to give in notice
To resign from a post, to resign one’s post
To send in one’s resignation / hand in one’s resignation
To give up a career / to abandon a career
To retire, to take early retirement
To be made / become / find oneself redundant / to be laid off
To fire / to throw out of work / to dismiss / to sack / to give the sack
To cut back on the staff / to make cutbacks
To close down Материалы по ПУПР 2 курс 3 семестр з.о.
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HEALTHY AND HAPPY – Active Vocabulary
Diseases
Disease, ailment, illness, sickness, malady
An allergy
Appendicitis
Asthma
AIDS
Bronchitis
Cancer
A chill
A cold
Chickenpox
Concussion
Diarrhoea
Diabetes
A fever
(the) flu / influenza
Food poisoning
A heart attack
Indigestion
Inflammation
of the lungs /
Pneumonia
Insomnia
Malaria
Malnutrition
Measles
Mumps
A nervous
breakdown
Rheumatism
Scarlet fever,
hay fever
Stomach ulcer
A stroke
Tonsillitis
Tuberculosis
Travel-, motion-, air-,
car-, seasickness
A headache,
(a) toothache,
earache, backache,
stomach-ache,
heartache
To be ill with a disease (Compare: to be sick), to be down with a disease, to be laid up with
To be taken ill with, to fall ill with a disease, to come /go down with the disease
An acute, chronic, incurable / untreatable, fatal / terminal disease
To be prone to minor ailments
contagious / infectious / catching
To spread / to pass on / to give / to carry; To catch / to pick up a disease
Isolated cases of smallpox, an outbreak of cholera, to reach epidemic proportions
Feeling unwell
To feel out of sorts / to feel a bit funny /to feel off colour / to feel under the weather;
Ant: to be as fit as a fiddle
To feel run down, Compare: to be worn out
To look faint / to feel faint / to be faint
Not to feel up to doing something
Symptoms
To ache – To hurt – To be painful – To be sore
To feel a dull ache in smth
To have an acute / severe / sharp, dull, shooting pain
To be aching all over / to be all aches and pains
To suffer from smth,
To hurt / to injure badly / seriously / severely
To feel pain in smth
A bad / heavy / nasty cold; Ant: a slight cold
To develop / run / get / have a temperature / to feel feverish
To have a slight, high fever
To shiver all over with cold
A bout of (the shivers) / a fit of (coughing) / an attack of asthma / a touch of (rheumatism)
To be inflamed by / with an infection
To be allergic to smth
To lose consciousness / pass out / faint (from hunger) Материалы по ПУПР 2 курс 3 семестр з.о.
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HEAD to have a (splitting) headache, to be / feel giddy / dizzy
EYES eyes are running, sore, swollen, itchy, inflamed
NOSE to sneeze, the nose is running, the nose is stuffed up
THROAT to have a sore throat, it hurts to swallow
CHEST to cough; to have a bad / heavy, dry, persistent cough; to suffer from chest pains,
heartache; to be short of breath, Compare: to be out of breath
STOMACH stomach-ache, to lose appetite, a pain in my side, indigestion, diarrhoea,
constipation, to feel nauseous, to vomit / to throw up
SKIN to come out in a rash, tomatoes bring me out in a rash; spots, rash, bruises, blisters,
cuts, wounds
JOINTS painful, stiff, to swell up
ANKLE sprained, twisted, broken / fractured
MUSCLES aching, pulled
Asking about health
What’s wrong with N.?
What seems to be the matter?
Where does it hurt?
Doctors:
Doctor / physician/ medical man
General Practitioner (GP)
Surgeon, Dentist
Paediatrician / children’s doctor
Gynaecologist / women’s doctor
Optician
Psychiatrist
Nurse
pharmacist
Making an appointment with a doctor
To call for a doctor
To have an appointment with smb, to make / fix an appointment with smb
To break / cancel an appointment
To be by appointment only (Consultation is by appointment only)
Surgery hours are from 9 to 5.
To check one’s schedule
To be fully booked
To fit smb in
To consult / to see a doctor
To go for a check-up / to have a check-up
Annual check-up
To come at the appointed time
Consulting-room / surgery
What do we do at the doctor’s?
To complain to smb about / of smth
To consult a doctor about smth
To breathe in, to breathe out (deeply)
To have one’s eyes examined
To have a blood test done
To have one’s eyesight tested
To have one’s chest X-rayed
To have one’s cardiogram taken
To have one’s height and weight measured
To malinger / to feign a sickness
To be diagnosed with Материалы по ПУПР 2 курс 3 семестр з.о.
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What do the doctors do?
To examine (carefully / thoroughly) / To give smb (a careful, thorough) examination
To feel the pulse, to take the pulse
To sound the heart and lungs
To take the temperature, to take smb’s blood pressure
To test one’s eyesight
To diagnose an illness as smth, to make a (skilful, accurate) diagnosis
Medications and their effects
A medicine for
To take medicines (pills, tablets)
A painkiller
Antibiotics
Vitamins
Half an aspirin
Eye drops, nose drops
Cough mixture, lozenges
To rub ointment in / To rub ointment into the skin
To apply mustard plaster
To use herbal remedies /medicinal herbs
Vaccination, To vaccinate against smth
To ease / soothe / relieve / reduce / lessen a pain
To kill / deaden a pain
To reduce fever / to bring down the temperature
To reduce the swelling
To reduce the blood pressure
To relieve symptoms
To fight off infection
To prevent complications
To build up strength
To speed up the recovery
Procedures of curing
To grant two-weeks’ sick-leave
To go on sick-leave, to be on sick-leave / on the sick-list
To stay away from school, to be off work sick
To keep to bed, to stay in bed / to have total bed rest Compare: To take to bed
To treat smb for smth with smth
To cure a person of a disease, to cure an illness
A cure for a disease / a remedy for a disease
To put smb on treatment, antibiotics
To follow the doctor’s instructions
Prescriptions
To prescribe some medicine (for smb) for an illness
To write out a prescription for smth
To prescribe a course of treatment, a course of injections
To follow the directions
Take a teaspoonful 3 times a day after meals
To gargle with salt water
Be careful not to exceed the prescribed dose
To avoid side-effects of the pill
At the chemist’s / a drugstore
To have the prescription filled / made up at the chemist’s
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Recovering
The cut healed up / over
The swelling goes down
To be well on the road to recovery /on the way to recovery
To be on the mend
To recover from an illness
To recover after an operation
To get over / to overcome a disease
To make a quick recovery, slow recovery, good recovery, total recovery
To burst with health
Dental problems
The tooth needs seeing to, stopping, pulling
The tooth is bothering me
The tooth keeps me awake
The pain skips around
To have a loose filling which is about to drop out
To have a sore gum
The tooth is sore to the touch; the tooth is sensitive to heat and cold
To have a cavity in the tooth and a great deal of decay around it
The jaw swelled with toothache
To dread coming to see a dentist
To put off going to the dentist
To pluck up one’s courage
Dental procedures
To open one’s mouth wide
To look over / to examine one’s teeth Compare: to see to the teeth
To give an injection of Novocaine
To drill a tooth
To put in a filling / to fill in a cavity
To save a tooth
To have one’s teeth cleaned
To have one’s tooth filled / stopped, to have one’s tooth X-rayed
To have one’s tooth pulled / extracted / taken out
Painful, Ant: painless extraction
Dentist’s advice
To take better care of one’s teeth
Not to put off going to the dentist
To have one’s teeth examined twice a year
To clean, to brush one’s teeth regularly
To use dental floss
To keep an eye on a diet
Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you
To have sound teeth Материалы по ПУПР 2 курс 3 семестр з.о.
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Hospital terminology
A sick man
To call the ambulance
To take to hospital, to check in hospital
Ant: to discharge from hospital
A case history
A (surgical) ward
Intensive care unit
To make / to go one’s rounds
Procedures in hospital
To cure / handle / treat a patient
To give smb first aid
To clean the wound with antiseptic / to put a little antiseptic on the wound
To apply a dressing to a wound, To put a bandage on
To remove a dressing, to replace a dressing
To have one’s leg put in plaster, To go round on crutches
To inject / to give an injection
To inject smth into the arm, to inject the arm with smth
To give blood transfusion
To undergo medical treatment (for a disease)
To try out a new course of treatment on smb / to test smth on smb
Patients’ condition
To be in good condition, Ant: to be in poor condition
To be in (out of) condition / to be fit (unfit) for smth
Condition is deteriorating
To feel like death warmed up, To be in critical condition, To be slipping away, To be fading fast
To fight for life
To bring on complications, Complications set in
The life is hanging by a thread, It’s just a matter of time
To pass away, To die of an illness, To die from a wound, To die through neglect
To have a relapse
To be in a coma, Ant: to come out of the coma
To regain consciousness / to come to / to come round
To respond to treatment, to turn the corner, the worst is over, to be on the mend, to come along
nicely, stable / satisfactory condition
To make a miraculous recovery
To be out of /off the danger list, to be out (up) and about
To be as good as new, to be as right as rain, to be on one’s feet again
To live to be a hundred
Operation
To go ahead with an operation
To operate on smb for smth, To perform an operation/ surgery for smth
To undergo / to have an operation
Operating –theatre
To avoid post-operative complications
To have appendix removed / to have appendix out
To have one’s tonsils removed
To come through an operation
The effect of the anaesthetic wears off
To build up one’s strength Материалы по ПУПР 2 курс 3 семестр з.о.
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SOCIAL MALADIES
To be in the habit of doing smth
To fall into / to get into the habit of doing smth
To cure smb of the habit
To get out of the habit / to break the habit / to kick the habit
A hard habit to break
Old habits die hard.
To do harm to smb
To be harmful (Ant: harmless) to one’s health
To abuse smth, an abuse of smth
An addict, to be addicted to smth,
To overcome one’s addiction to smth
Heart Disease
Causes
A risk factor for a disease
A major cause of a disease
To contribute to (the development of) the disease
To put oneself at risk
To store up trouble
To eat fatty food (diets)
To be overweight
Weight fluctuation
Drinking and smoking
Prevention or cure
Prevention is better than cure
To examine one’s eating and drinking habits
To cut down on smth
To cut out fatty foods
To eat more fibre
To go on a diet, to be on a diet
Vitamin-rich diet, Ant: a diet deficient in (of) vitamins / to lack vitamins, Vitamin
deficiency
To lower blood pressure
To take more exercise (Compare: to do more exercises)
To reduce strain on heart
To have a positive effect
The harm may outweigh the benefit
Smoking/ Drinking / Drugs
Why do they start?
To be introduced to smoking / drinking / drugs by smb
Under friends’ pressure, To pressure smb into doing smth
To share alcohol in a family setting
To look grown-up Материалы по ПУПР 2 курс 3 семестр з.о.
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To copy parents
To join the crowd
Not to lose face
To feel more relaxed and sociable
To escape from a life that may seem too hard to bear
Smoking
A non-smoker
A habitual smoker, a chain smoker, to chain smoke
Passive smoking
To get through 20 cigarettes a day
A craving for a cigarette
The harmful effects of smoking
The smell of smoke puts people off
To burn a great deal of money
To develop a bad dry persistent cough
Mouth sores, damage to teeth
To increase blood pressure and pulse rate
To be constantly short of breath
Skin wrinkles faster and deeper
To run a risk of damage to the unborn babies
To cause lung cancer, heart disease, chronic bronchitis
Prevention
To put a cigarette out, to extinguish a cigarette
To put an end to smoking
To give up / quit / stop / cut out smoking
To stay smoke-free
That’s easier said than done.
Drinking
A teetotaler, to stay sober, to be tipsy, to get drunk, to turn into an alcoholic
To be legally under age
Symptoms and Consequences
To be drunk/ to be intoxicated
To weaken the senses
To cloud the judgement
Clumsy actions
Slurred speech
To suffer from double vision and loss of balance
To fall unconscious
To suffer from hangover
To cause heart disease and brain damage
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Drug-abuse
Symptoms and Consequences
Hard drugs, soft drugs, legal drugs
To take drugs / use drugs / be on drugs
To develop side-effects
To cause unbalanced emotions
To bring on confusion and frightening hallucinations
To experience drowsiness, moodiness, loss of appetite, a high level of deceit
Drug-taking leads to crime
Withdrawal effects wear off slowly
Mental disorders
To cause sudden death
To die from continued drug abuse
Prevention
To fight against drugs
To resist drug experimentation
To dissuade friends from experimenting
Parental guidance
To suggest other ways of spending time together
To arrange anti-drugs campaign
To have a drug-education programme for children
To hold drug education lessons
To arrange visits with ex-addicts
To avoid glamourising bad habits
Stress
The stresses and strains of modern life
Tensions of everyday life
A stressful job
To be under stress
Causes and symptoms
To burn the candle at both ends / to overwork
To be overtired, to have a feeling of exhaustion
To suffer from constant irritability, tiredness, insomnia, lack of appetite
To have difficulty in making decisions, concentrating
To be worn out, to feel run down
To bring on severe depression
To head for a nervous breakdown
Stress-based illnesses
How to cope with it
Positive stress
To fight off stress, to handle stress, to control stress, to avoid stress
To take it easy
To confront, to avoid the situation
To have a change of scene
To eat regular meals
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FIT AND WELL
Active Vocabulary
Why do we do sport?
To be for enjoyment and fitness
To develop character and team spirit
To provide an opportunity for people to express themselves
To break down economic and social barriers
To provide a challenge
To get rid of tension
To provide an outlet for surplus energy
To be attractive to watch on TV
A way of making money (professional sport)
A sport, sports
To do (a) sport / to play (a) sport
To take up a sport
An amateur, professional sport
A spectacular sport
A team sport
Outdoor games, Ant: indoor games
Sports ground, sports field
To hold a championship, competition, contest, cup, game, match, tournament, event
To enter for a (track-and-field) event (Eventful, Ant: uneventful)
To take part in / to participate in
To compete with (against) smb in smth for (the trophy)
To be in competition for smth with smb
To have a rival for (in) the Olympiad
Participants
Crew / team
National team, Olympic team, college team
Compare: umpire / referee / judge
Coach / trainer, Ant: trainee
Opponent / rival for (in) smth, opposing team
Sportsman / athlete, sportswoman
Sports people (yachtsman, chess-player Compare: chessman)
Contestant / competitor / participant
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Audience
A (regular, committed, faithful) supporter / a (dedicated / devoted / loyal) fan /
follower
A spectator
Sports enthusiast
To support (a sports club)/ to shout for (a sports club)
Sporting Success
Well-trained Ant: badly-trained
To be in training for a match
To coach smb (a team) for the competition (in gymnastics)
To tie for the first place
To lead from start to finish
To excel oneself
To be in a class of one’s own
To score /to kick a (winning) goal (in the finals)
To score a point
To keep the score
To make a score of 50 points
To win (Ant: to lose) the game with the score 4 to 2
To draw a match / to end in a draw/ the two teams drew
To beat an opposing side
To be a walk-over, completely one-sided
To keep the trophy
To retain a title
A victory
To win in a battle / contest / race
To win (smth) hands down
To win by 3 points
To win smth from smb
Best time, record time, fastest time
To set (up) a record in a sport
To beat a record / to break a record;
A record-breaker
To hold the world record in / for smth
A record-holder
An all-time record, Olympic record
To be a reigning champion and a hot favourite to win the cup
To be the star, to be the champion
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Sporting Failure
To lose / to be (well) beaten / to be defeated / to fail
To be a complete failure
To lose to a stronger side by points
A loss (2 wins and 4 losses)
To come second, to be a runner-up
To be an also-ran
A good loser, a bad loser
Own-goals by smb
To kick the ball above the goal
To be relegated to the substitutes’ bench for smth
Not to stand a chance
To be outclassed in smth
To be knocked out
To be stopped (in the first round)
To be overtaken on the line
To be in a photo finish for last place
To lag behind/ fall behind/ remain behind, Ant: to keep up with
To fail to finish the course
To get a consolation prize for smth
To cheat at sports, Ant: to act honestly (A fair play, Ant: an unfair play)
To be disqualified in smth
To be banned from entering the competition for several years
Favourite Sports
All-year round sport
To appeal to smb / to interest smb
Appealing, Ant: unattractive
To be good for letting off steam
A good way of getting away from it all
To get rid of tension
To provide good exercise for most parts of the body
To be excellent for arms, legs, posture and general fitness
To exercise arms and legs
To benefit thigh muscles
To develop a sense of grace and poise
Maximum exercise in minimum time
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To have the stamina to do smth
It requires great stamina
To have a good sense of balance
To have a definite air of glamour about it
To be fairly proficient before joining a club
How Sporting are the British?
To be a sporting nation / sporting people
To be a national obsession
To knight their most famous sportsmen
To play for the love of the game
To grow fast in popularity
To double its popularity
To draw fewer / more spectators
To fill the grounds
To become a major spectator sport
To find regular places in TV programmes
To win over British TV fans
To run Britain from a nation of spectators to a nation of doers
How to Keep Fit?
The vital thing about getting fit is getting started
To set aside a little time each day for exercise
To devote 10 minutes a day to exercising
To work up (at one’s own pace) to a suitable exercise programme
To try going for a walk
Sustained walks of 30 minutes and more
To feel the benefits
To build up one’s stamina
To get back into shape
To feel less tired, more able to cope with the demands of a busy life
To be able to fit more activities into each day
My Keep-Fit Programme
Good eating habits, wise drinking habits, regular sleeping habits
To lead a sedentary way of life
To take regular exercise
To run short-distance, Ant: long-distance
To indulge in long walks
To eat good quality food
To have regular check-ups
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CHOOSING A CAREER
I. Paraphrase the following using synonyms or synonymous expressions.
1. Living on unemployment benefit was a disagreeable experience.
2. John found me arrogant and domineering.
3. Before selling a new product a producer should make it known to the consumer.
4. Hers is a most charming personality.
5. Some TV programmes can be rather tedious and flat.
6. It is by no means easy to choose an occupation.
7. He hoped to have accomplished more.
8. Isn’t it difficult work for a person your age?
9. Tom was unemployed for a while.
10. They were fired together.
11. Laura is a competent programmer.
12. Are you always just to people?
13. There are a lot of hard-working students in our group.
14. He trades in cars.
15. This business is not easy to run.
16. Our boss is vacating his position.
17. This job carries a lot of duties.
18. It is a responsibility to be a breadwinner, isn’t it?
19. When at school Kennet took part in different activities.
20. Marge handed in notice after lunch.
II. Give the opposite of the following by using word-building prefixes.
1. attractive
2. capable
3. competent
4. decision
5. earned (adj)
6. efficient
7. employment
8. experienced
9. encourage
10. fair
11. manageable
12. responsible
13. skilful
14. profitable
15. varied
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III. Give the opposite of the following.
1. lazy, idle
2. within one’s income
3. interesting, exciting
4. uncertain, timid, shy
5. full-time
6. subordinate (n)
7. be out of work / a job
8. negligent
IV. Match the words from columns A and B to form compound words.
A B
1. wage
2. point
3. back
4. full
5. job
6. nine
7. self
8. self
9. chair
10. bread
confidence
man
reliant
blank
ground
hopper
to-five
earner
winner
person
V. Match the words from columns A and B so as to make verbal collocations.
Supply the missing articles.
A B
1. turn in / consider / turn down
2. manage / run / direct / handle
3. follow / take up diplomacy as
4. make / take
5. arrive at / come / make / reach
6. earn / make
7. leave / quit / vacate / give up one’s
8. get / have / hold
9. apply for / appoint to
10. deal / cope with
11. be made / become / find oneself
12. hand in / submit / tender / give in one's
13. assume / accept / take
14. develop / improve / refine one’s
15. free / fill
resignation
application
problems
position
post
post
redundant
responsibility
skills
vacancy
career
living
choice
business
decision
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VI. Choose the best word to complete the sentence.
1. His dream to become the chief / head / chef in this restaurant came true.
2. Their principle / central / principal goal was to improve their computer skills.
3. He is hunting for a job / an occupation / a career.
4. I would like to follow in my father's career / steps / footsteps.
5. His weekly wages are / salary is not enough to make both ends meet.
6. Our total family income / wages / profit is growing.
7. Is it a very excessive / demanding / requiring job?
8. Make sure he has the right background / experiences / qualifications for the job.
9. A lawyer is a member of a much respected profession / trade / work.
10. Why not think about choosing a business / career / work while at school?
11. You have to apply / ask / request for this job in person.
12. If you hear of any closings / vacancies / places in the company, I would certainly
appreciate knowing about them.
13. If you’re a(n) director / employee /employer you have to do what your boss tells you.
14. The purpose of running a business is to make benefit / profit / service.
15. Great news! I’ve just been promoted / raised / advanced.
16. He is looking for a new appointment / duty / employment at the moment.
17. Workers who arrive late will be given three warnings and then refused / dismissed /
rejected.
18. The job involves / concerns / encloses dealing with little kids and their parents.
19. The job supervisor was in charge/ leadership / management of nearly fifty men.
20. She was promoted to the job / profession / position of vice-president.
21. I am afraid there is very little justification / advantage / motivation to work hard.
22. The applicants are expected to have strong verbal and written communication gifts /
manners / skills
VII. Complete the sentences below with prepositions or adverbs where
necessary.
1. No wonder he was never promoted: he would just lie … … the job.
2. The books varied … size, so she took the thickest volume.
3. What standards … achievement did the students show?
4. Nowadays they advertise a lot of new goods … television.
5. If you want this job you should send … your application immediately.
6. He was appointed … the post some time ago.
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8. He is definitely fond of bossing people ….
9. Why don’t you take … journalism … a career.
10. He is hardly capable … cheating.
11. He was placed … charge … recruitment.
12. He is committed … his students.
13. It generally takes some time to become competent … your profession.
14. Isn’t she cut … … this career?
15. I would hate to deal … machines – I definitely prefer people.
16. What does he do? – He deals … cars.
17. It is time we decided … that.
18. I am still undecided as … my future career.
19. It took them long to arrive … the decision.
20. Why was he dismissed … work?
21. He is not ambitious. He can even live … the dole.
22. He has been … …. regular employment for quite a time already.
23. Some graduates of our University seek … employment … advertising agencies.
24. You will learn … experience.
25. He is a real expert … rock music.
26. Teachers should be fair … their students.
27. Why follow … your father’s footsteps? Try something else.
28. This salary is not enough to get ….
29. Joseph is frustrated with the results. – What actually gets him …?
30. To get ... in life you must acquire some good professional skills.
31. Isn’t it a great picture? Why don’t you go … … Art?
32. Why did you hand … your notice?
33. While hunting … a job, stay optimistic.
34. I won’t be able to do it … such short a notice.
35. You will pick … typing as you practise.
36. He was hoping for a good position … a company.
37. He did it … profit.
38. She promised to pull her socks … and do her best.
39. Did Bertrand resign … his post?
40. Our graduates are skilled … computers.
41. One has to have a vocation … medicine to make a good doctor.
42. Why did not they take me … ? I thought I did well at the job interview.
43. I am so much … traveling!
44. Jack is still … two minds as to what university to apply … .
45. The company advertised … a new accountant in the local paper.
46. What made him resign … your company?
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48. The office is … competent management.
49. You have to study a lot to develop competence … teaching.
50. My Grandpa is learning to work … computer.
51. It’s time you earned … your living.
52. To get this position an applicant needs some experience … marketing.
53. What does you cousin do … a living?
54. The clerk did not manage … the job.
55. The investment was profitable … all of us.
56. Who is responsible … the deal?
57. Do you have vacancies … teachers this year?
58. The danger of a heart attack varies … body weight.
59. He did it … his own responsibility.
VIII. Give as many English equivalents of the following as you know.
1. достичь успеха
2. выбрать профессию
3. перспективы, возможности карьеры
4. принять, взять ответственность
5. решить, придти к решению
6. засучить рукава
7. квалифицированный учитель
8. дать работу, нанять на работу
9. заполнить вакансию
10. зарплата
11. кандидат на пост
12. семейный доход
13. отказать наотрез
14. почивать на лаврах
15. работать, не покладая рук (без отдыха)
IX. Translate into English.
1. Просмотри, пожалуйста, страницу объявлений.
2. Поскольку зарплата была низкой, было мало желающих получить эту
работу.
3. Нам всем очень нравится деловая обстановка на ее занятиях.
4. Ты умеешь обращаться с компьютером?
5. Джеку не хватает уверенности в себе.
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7. Во время кризиса он потерял все заработанные им деньги.
8. Тебе не следует поощрять его плохие привычки.
9. Он работает в банке.
10. Он не смог справиться с работой.
11. Хочу купить машину, поэтому придется поработать дополнительно.
12. Общий доход фирмы составил 200 000 долларов.
13. Вас привлекает преподавание?
14. Он отверг мое предложение помочь ему искать работу.
15. Сейчас я получаю пособие по безработице.
16. Честно говоря, мы бы охотнее взяли на работу специалиста по управлению
кадрами.
17. Жаль, что он сделал этот выбор. Он об этом пожалеет.
18. Какие профессии предполагают использование языков?
19. Когда закроется фабрика, многих рабочих сократят.
20. Эта фирма подчинена мне (я возглавляю эту фирму).
21. Если бы его рекомендовали на повышение год тому назад, он бы согласился.
22. Она пошла по стопам матери.
23. Это совершенно другая мотивация!
24. Результаты эксперимента казались обнадеживающими.
25. Проработав в этой компании еще пять лет, Джек больше не надеялся на
прибавку зарплаты.
26. Это последняя капля!
27. Ты заполнишь анкету для приема на работу за пять минут.
28. Я не вижу в этой работе никаких привлекательных сторон.
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CHOOSING A CAREER
THE KEY
I. Paraphrase the following using synonyms or synonymous expressions.
1. on the dole
2. bossy
3. advertise it
4. attractive
5. boring
6. career,,line, trade
7. to have achieved
8. tough, painstaking
9. out of work / a job; between jobs
10. dismissed, discharged
11. efficient, skilled
12. fair to / on
13. industrious
14. deals
15. manage
16. resigning his post
17. responsibilities
18. wage-earner
19. was engaged
20. gave notice
II. Give the opposite of the following. Use word-building prefixes.
1. unattractive
2. incapable
3. incompetent
4. indecision
5. unearned
6. inefficient
7. unemployment
8. inexperienced
9. discourage, dispirit
10. unfair, unjust
11. unmanageable
12. irresponsible
13. unskilful
14. unprofitable
15. unvaried
III. Give the opposite of the following.
IV. Match the words from columns A and B to form compound words.
1. wage-earner
2. point-blank
6. nine-to-five
7. self-confidence
1. industrious, hardworking, diligent
2. beyond one’s income
3. boring
4. confident
5. part-time
6. boss (n)
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3. background
4. full-time
5. job-hopper
8. self-reliant
9. chairperson
10. breadwinner
V. Match the words from columns A and B so as to make verbal collocations.
Supply the missing articles.
1. turn in / consider / turn down an application
2. manage / run / direct / handle a business
3. follow / take up diplomacy as a career
4. make / take a choice
5. arrive at / come to / make / reach a decision
6. earn / make a living
7. leave/ quit / vacate / give up one’s post
8. get / have / hold a position
9. apply for/ appoint to a post
10. deal / cope with problems
11. be made / become / find oneself redundant
12. hand in / submit / tender / give in one's resignation
13. assume / accept / take responsibility
14. develop / improve / refine one’s skills;
15. free / fill a vacancy
VI. Choose the best word to complete the sentence.
1. chef
2. principal
3. job
4. footsteps
5. wages are
6. income
7. demanding
8. qualifications
9. profession
10. career
11. apply
12. vacancies
13. employee
14. profit
15. promoted
16. employment
17. dismissed
18. involves
19. charge
20. position
21. motivation
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VII. Complete the sentences below with prepositions.
1. DOWN ON
2. IN
3. IN
4. ON
5. IN
6. TO
7. DOWN
8. AROUND / ABOUT
9. UP; AS
10. OF
11. IN; OF
12. TO
13. AT / I N
14. OUT FOR
15. WITH
16. IN
17. ON / AGAINST
18. TO
19. AT
20. FROM
21. ON
22. OUT OF
23. – ; WITH / IN / AT
24. WITH
25. AT / IN / ON
26. TO / ON
27. IN
28. BY
29. DOWN
30. ON
31. IN FOR
32. IN
33. FOR
34. AT
35. UP
36. IN / WITH
37. FOR
38. UP
39. –
40. IN / AT
41. FOR
42. ON
43. INTO
44. IN; TO
45. FOR
46. FROM
47. BY
48. UNDER
49. FOR / IN
50. WITH / ON
51. –
52. FOR / OF
53. FOR
54. –
55. TO
56. FOR
57. FOR
58. WITH
59. ON
VIII. Give the English equivalents.
1. succeed; achieve success; be a success
2. choose / follow / take up a career; go in for smth
3. career prospects / opportunities
4. take / accept / assume responsibility
5. make up one's mind; decide on/against; arrive at/ come to/ make/ reach a decision
6. skilled / trained / efficient / qualified teacher
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8. employ / accept / hire smb; give smb a job; take smb on
9. fill a vacancy / position; find a person for the job
10. salary, wage(s), pay
11. applicant for the post / position
12. family income(s)
13. refuse point-blank
14. rest on one’s laurels
15. keep one’s nose in the grindstone
IX. Translate into English.
1. Look through the advert page, please.
2. As the wages were / salary was low, there were few applicants for the job.
3. We all really enjoy the businesslike atmosphere in her class.
4. Do you know the computer? Are you computer literate? Can you use / operate a /
the computer?
5. Jack lacks confidence in himself.
6. This talk to the manager led to her instant dismissal.
7. He lost all his earnings in the crisis.
8. You should not encourage his bad habits.
9. He is employed in / works for a / the bank. He is with a / the bank.
10. He couldn’t manage / cope with / handle / carry out the work.
11. I want a car, so I’ll have to do a bit of moonlighting.
12. The firm made a total profit / revenue of $ 200. 000.
13. Does teaching attract you / appeal to you?
14. He turned down my offer to help him (to) hunt for a job.
15. I am on unemployment benefit / the dole at the moment.
16. To be fair, we would rather employ an expert in / on / personnel management.
17. I wish he hadn't made / taken this choice. He will regret it.
18. Which / What professions involve the use of languages?
19. When the factory closes down, many workers will become / be made / find
themselves redundant.
20. I am in charge / the head of this firm.
21. If he had been recommended for promotion a year ago, he would have agreed.
22. She followed in her mother's footsteps.
23. That's a totally different motivation!
24. After another five years with this company Jack stopped hoping for a rise.
25. The results of the experiment seemed encouraging.
26. That’s the last straw!
27. It will take you five minutes to fill in / out the application form.
28. I don’t see any attractions of this job. Материалы по ПУПР 2 курс 3 семестр з.о.
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HEALTHY AND HAPPY
I. Paraphrase the following using synonyms or synonymous expressions.
1. Why don’t you make an appointment with the surgeon?
2. I could not stand his insulting remarks.
3. There were some sleeping tablets left on the table.
4. It is extremely important.
5. He has medical examinations regularly.
6. The death rate in this country exceeds the birth rate.
7. At first it seemed a slight illness.
8. The water here lacks fluorine.
9. Regrettably, his first patient died.
10. I won’t have any new medicine tested on my doggie.
11. The dentist checks my teeth regularly.
12. We shall remove your tooth in no time!
13. He lost consciousness.
14. The doctor says it is a nasty cold.
15. Nell has been overworking this term.
16. It is an infectious disease.
17. Is there a remedy for asthma?
18. In no circumstances we should agree to go on our own.
19. It will take you quite a while to get over the cold.
20. This should relieve the pain.
21. It is not easy to kick the habit.
22. Ann felt an acute pain in the shoulder.
23. Everybody was relieved when the boy regained consciousness.
24. Both his parents died in the accidents and it makes me sad.
25. He was breathing heavily.
26. You can take my car only if you keep it in your garage.
27. The child fell ill with mumps.
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II. Give the opposite of the following. Use word-building elements.
1. curable
2. harmful
3. mortal
4. painful
5. fit (adj)
6. inhale
7. comfort (n)
8. complicated
9. conscious
10. patient (adj)
III. Give the opposite of the following. Use a different word.
1. come round / around / to
2. take up
3. sharp / acute pain
4. be / feel worn out
5. do smb good
6. apply a dressing to a wound
7. severe injury
8. come/ go down with
9. feel well
10. keep an appointment
11. have a high fever
12. reduce
13. be in condition
14. get out of the habit of doing smth, break the
habit
IV. Match the word from columns A and B to make compound words.
A B
1. X
2. operating
3. pain
4. in
5. drug
6. consulting
7. check
8. breath
9. sick
10. tooth
ache
killer
leave
patient
ray
room
store
taking
theatre
up
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V. Combine the words in columns A and B so as to make collocations. Supply
the missing articles.
A B
1. to sound
2. medicinal
3. mortal
4. surgery
5. surgical
6. risk
7. to avoid
8. critical
9. to fix
10. to fill
12. persistent
13. cough
14. to dress
15. X-ray
16. to break
17. to be granted
18. open-heart
19. medical
20. bout of
ward
factor
shivers
surgery
sick-leave
therapy
chest
hours
injures
examination
prescription
appointment
mixture
complications
wound
condition
habit
cough
herbs
VI. Choose the best word to complete the sentences.
1. She is dying / dyeing / dieing her new sweater black.
2. He avoided complications after a serious illness / problem / malady.
3. He has launched several complains / appeals / complaints to the boss.
4. I think I have just heard him cough / cuff / calf.
5. He was suddenly taken sick / ill / hurt with measles.
6. Is this disease / illness / ailment catching?
7. The medicine was given to the sick / ill / patient man on time.
8. I would definitely prefer medical / remedial / medicinal herbs to pills.
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10. The rats were injected / infected / vaccinated with the disease for research
purposes.
11. It will take you some time to heal / cure / recover from the stroke.
12. I wish we could prescribe / proscribe criminals.
13. I am afraid I have got a sore / soar throat.
14. I hope the wound cures / recovers / heals in no time.
15. Jane’s cheek swallowed /swelled up / was injured after the bite.
16. He is now recovering / recuperating / healing at a nursing home.
17. He suffered a mild attack / case / disease of rheumatism.
18. We take this cough mixture to treat / cure / do away with / relieve the
symptoms.
VII. Supply the missing articles.
1. She is on sick-leave.
2. She caught cold.
3. Margot was laid up with flu.
4. I have got toothache.
5. I could see bruise on her leg.
6. He had ulcer in his mouth.
7. His grandpa had heart attack.
8. Bronchitis is treated with antibiotics today.
9. After diphtheria Jane fell very weak.
10. The child had boil on his hand.
11. He died of stroke last Monday
12. He is heading for nervous breakdown
13. He was diagnosed with appendicitis
14. Martha was cured of gastric ulcer.
15. Asthma is common disease nowadays.
16. His eyes inflamed by infection were red.
17. He suffered from headache since early morning.
18. Janet took breath and dived into sea.
19. She lay motionless in dead faint.
20. The patient lay with bout of shivers.
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VIII. Supply the missing prepositions.
1. In his sixties Uncle James looked as fit as a fiddle and died … his boots.
2. No wonder he can’t keep a cool head: he has been … stress for months.
3. The water in Belarus is deficient … iodine.
4. The deficiency … fluorine can cause tooth decay.
5. You can borrow my bike … condition that you change the tires.
6. Where does he go … his regular check-up?
7. What she did was an abuse … her position as manager.
8. He is much addicted … drink.
9. What can she be allergic … ?
10. Interviews are … appointments only
11. Humans take in oxygen and breathe … carbon dioxide.
12. We stood breathless … terror.
13. What did he complain …?
14. He complained … his boss.
15. Why don't you consult … your GP.
16. Everybody was worried as the patient started coughing … blood.
17. Vitamins will help to build … your strength.
18. I can’t get … … the habit of reading myself to sleep.
19. George was diagnosed … whooping cough.
20. I am trying to cut … … the amount of salty foods my family consume.
21. She was cured … a cold.
22. Is there a cure / remedy … laziness?
23. This syrup will cure … your cold.
24. No wonder he feels run ….
25. Don’t you see your doggie is … … breath?
26. No matter how hard the doctors tried he would not come ….
27. You can go … … flu. There is a lot of it about.
28. Isn’t Jane a bit … colour today?
29. What did he die …?
30. He died … neglect.
31. He applied a dressing … the wound himself.
32. He is recovering, but still …drugs.
33. They examined him … tooth decay.
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35. Take an aspirin whenever you feel … the weather.
36. After the accident she didn’t feel … … driving.
37. This herbal tea is sure to fight the infection … .
38. They work … fits and starts.
39. Is John fit …work after his long illness?
40. I am sure he will get … his mumps in a week or so.
41. He gets … at least two bottles of mineral water every day.
42. Eventually the kid got … the habit of brushing his teeth regularly.
43. His life is hanging …a thread.
44. This diet won’t cause any harm … your stomach.
45. The wound healed … .
46. All of a sudden the child was taken ill … pneumonia.
47. His ear inflamed … infection was sore … the touch.
48. This herb can’t be used … medicinal purposes.
49. He is … the mend.
50. They operated … her … arthritis
51. Where did you have this prescription made …?
52. The suffered a slight injury … his leg.
53. He suffered … dizziness.
54. The wounded animal screamed … pain.
55. At seeing a syringe Ron passed … .
56. You could have picked … this germ … Sarah.
57. He was prescribed aspirin … his headache.
58. I will have the prescription filled … at a nearest drugstore.
59. It took him some time to recover … surprise.
60. It is time he recovered … his strength.
61. The audience shivered …horror.
62. His jaw swelled … toothache.
63. The medicine failed to bring the temperature … .
64. What is he treated …?
65. My GP put me … a different treatment.
66. This method of treatment was not tried … … animals.
67. When the effect of anesthetic wore … the pain seemed to be unbearable.
68. Being overweight is a risk factor … heart disease.
69. After taking so much exercise I am aching all … .
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IX. Give the English equivalents of the following.
1 записаться на прием к врачу
2 сильный кашель
3 задыхаться
4 делать рентген стопы
5 заняться бегом трусцой
6 быть наркоманом
7 быть склонным к простудам
8 здоров как огурчик
9 выписать рецепт
10 измерять давление
11 сдавать анализ крови
12 совершенно безболезненное удаление
13 в глубоком обмороке
14 выздороветь чудом
X. Translate into English.
1. Я заразился малярией от моего товарища.
2. Зуб реагировал на холодное и горячее.
3. Ты должен дважды в год проверять состояние своих зубов.
4. У меня рука омертвела.
5. Поздравляю, у вас здоровые зубы.
6. Тома бросало в жар / лихорадило.
7. Случаи заболевания оспой становятся редкими.
8. Врачи изучили его историю болезни и обнаружили, что у него аллергия ко
всем антибиотикам.
9. Я страдаю от головокружения.
10. В приступе истерии она выбросила таблетки в окно.
11. Она взяла шприц и ввела ему болеутоляющее в руку.
12. В результате аварии они серьезно пострадали.
13. Злоупотребление алкоголем – одна из болезней нашего общества
14. Ни мазь, ни горчичники не помогли облегчить его сильный кашель.
15. Его глаза все еще воспалены.
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17. Операция длилась три часа.
18. Я восхищаюсь его жизнеспособностью.
19. Больной не поддается лечению.
20. Неужели она так плохо переносит полет?
21. Его жизнь весит на волоске.
22. На что жалуетесь?
23. Те, кто злоупотребляет наркотиками, вряд ли доживут до 100 лет.
24. У меня все болит.
25. У ребенка аллергическая сыпь после того, как он съел вторую плитку
шоколада.
26. Он в полном сознании, но не в состоянии говорить.
27. Вам необходимо много терпения для того, чтобы излечиться от этого
заболевания.
28. В нашей жизни все больше и больше не хватает эмоций.
29. Недавно ему поставили диагноз ветрянка.
30. Время лечит.
31. Ой, больно!
32. Ее репутации был нанесен смертельный удар в результате скандала.
33. Студенты проследовали за профессором в операционную.
34. Почему бы тебе не принять это замечательное домашнее средство от боли в
горле.
35. Было очевидно, что он болен: он постоянно кашлял и чихал.
HEALTHY AND HAPPY
THE KEY
I. Paraphrase the following using synonyms or synonymous expressions.
1. fix, arrange, book an appointment
2. abusive
3. pills
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5. goes for check-ups
6. mortality rate
7. minor / trivial ailment
8. is deficient in
9. passed away
10. tried out
11. examines, looks over
12. pull out, extract
13. passed out, fainted
14. bad, heavy
15. burning the candle at both ends
16. It is a contagious disease. / This disease is catching.
17. cure, medication, treatment
18. in no case
19. recover, fight (off)
20. reduce / soothe / deaden / kill / ease / help / stop / dull the pain
21. get out of / give up / break (yourself of) the habit
22. agonizing / awful / extreme / great / intense/ severe / sharp / terrible / unbearable
pain
23. came round / around / to
24. It makes my heart ache.
25. breathing hard
26. on condition that, provided that
27. got / was take ill with, caught, came / went down with
II. Give the opposite of the following. Use word-building elements.
1. incurable
2. harmless
3. immortal
4. painless
5. unfit (adj)
6. exhale
7. discomfort
8. uncomplicated
9. unconscious
10. impatient
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III. Give the opposite. Use a different word.
1. pass out, faint, lose
consciousness
2. give up, quit
3. dull pain
4. be fit
5. do smb harm
6. remove a dressing
7. slight / minor / superficial
injury
8. get over, come through, recover from
9. feel off colour, out of sorts, under the weather
10. break / miss / cancel an appointment
11. have a slight fever
12. increase, rise
13. be out of condition, be unfit for smth
14. fall / get into the habit of doing smth
IV. Match the word from columns A and B to make compound words.
1. X-ray
2. operating-theatre
3. painkiller
4. in-patient
5. drugstore
6. consulting-room
7. check-up
8. breathtaking
9. sick-leave
10. toothache
V. Combine the words from columns A and B so as to make collocations.
1. sound the chest
2. medicinal herbs
3. mortal injuries
4. surgery hours
5. surgical ward
6. drug addict
7. risk factor
8. to avoid complications
9. critical condition
10. to fix an appointment
11. to fill a prescription
12. cough mixture
13. to dress a wound
14. X -ray therapy
15. to break the habit
16. to be granted a sick-leave
17. to regain consciousness
18. open-heart surgery
19. medical examination
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VI. Choose the best word to complete the sentences.
1. dyeing
2. illness
3. complaints
4. cough
5. ill
6. disease
7. sick
8. medicinal
9. ached
10. infected
11. recover from
12. proscribe
13. sore
14. heals
15. swelled up
16. recuperating
17. attack
18. relieve
VII. Supply the missing articles.
1. She is on sick-leave.
2. She caught (a) cold.
3. Margot was laid up with (the) flu.
4. I have got (a) toothache.
5. I could see a bruise on her leg.
6. He had an ulcer in his mouth.
7. His grandpa had a heart attack.
8. Bronchitis is treated with antibiotics today.
9. After (the) diphtheria Jane fell very weak.
10. The child had a boil on his hand.
11. He died of a stroke last Monday
12. He is heading for a nervous breakdown
13. He was diagnosed with appendicitis
14. Martha was cured of gastric ulcer.
15. Asthma is a common disease nowadays
16. His eyes inflamed by an / the infection were red.
17. He suffered from a headache since early morning.
18. Janet took a breath and dived into the sea.
19. She lay motionless in a dead faint.
20. The patient lay with a bout of the shivers.
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VIII. Supply the missing preposition.
1. WITH / IN
2. UNDER
3. IN / OF
4. IN
5. ON
6. FOR
7. OF
8. TO
9. TO
10. BY
11. OUT
12. WITH
13. ABOUT / OF
14. TO
15. –
16. AWAY
17. UP
18. OUT OF
19. WITH
20. DOWN ON / –
21. OF
22. FOR
23. –
24. DOWN
25. OUT OF
26. ROUND / TO
27. DOWN WITH
28. OFF
29. OF / FROM
30. THROUGH
31. TO
32. ON
33. FOR
34. FROM
35. UNDER
36. UP TO
37. OFF
38. BY / IN
39. FOR
40. OVER
41. THROUGH
42. INTO
43. BY
44. TO
45. OVER
46. WITH
47. BY / WITH; TO
48. FOR
49. ON
50. ON; FOR
51. UP
52. TO
53. FROM
54. WITH / IN
55. OUT
56. UP; FROM
57. FOR
58. –
59. FROM
60. –
61. WITH
62. WITH
63. DOWN
64. FOR
65. ON
66. OUT ON
67. OFF
68. FOR
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VIII. Give the English equivalents.
1. make / fix an appointment with the doctor / physician / medical man
2. a bad / nasty / persistent / violent cough
3. feel breathless / short of breath / out of breath
4. take an X-ray picture of your foot; have your foot X-rayed
5. take up jogging
6. be a drug addict, abuse drugs
7. be prone to colds / chills
8. as fit as a fiddle
9. write / make out a prescription
10. test smb’s blood-pressure, have smb’s blood-pressure taken
11. have smb’s blood test taken
12. an absolutely painless extraction
13. in a dead faint
14. maкe a miraculous recovery.
IX. Translate into English.
1. I caught / picked up malaria from my friend. / My friend gave malaria to me.
2. The tooth was sensitive to heat and cold.
3. You should have your teeth examined twice a year.
4. My hand feels dead.
5. My congratulations! You have sound teeth!
6. Tom was feverish / had a fever.
7. Cases of smallpox / small pox are becoming rare.
8. The doctors examined his case history and found that he was allergic to all the
antibiotics.
9. I suffer from dizziness.
10. In a fit of hysterics she threw the pills out of the window.
11. She took a syringe and injected his arm with a painkiller.
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14. Neither the ointment nor mustard plaster helped relieve his bad cough.
15. His eyes were still sore.
16. (The) surgery lasts from 9 to 10 am. / Surgery hours are from 9 till 10.
17. The surgery lasted three hours.
18. I admire his vitality.
19. The patient is not responding to treatment
20. Can she be so airsick?
21. His life is hanging by a thread
22. What are your complaints? / What seems to be the matter / problem / trouble? /
What are you complaining of?
23. People who abuse drugs are not likely to live to be a hundred.
24. I am all aches and pains / aching all over. / My whole body aches.
25. The child had an allergic rash after eating a second bar of chocolate.
26. He is fully conscious, but in no condition to speak.
27. You will need a lot of patience to cure yourself of / overcome this disease.
28. Our life is becoming increasingly deficient in emotions.
29. He has recently been diagnosed with small pox / smallpox.
30. Time heals.
31. Ouch! That hurt! / It hurts.
32. Her reputation suffered a mortal blow as a result of the scandal.
33. The students followed the professor to the operating theatre.
34. Why don't you take this excellent home remedy for sore throats.
35. You could tell he was sick – he was constantly coughing and sneezing
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FIT AND WELL!
I. Paraphrase the following using synonyms or synonymous expressions.
1. Who scored the goal?
2. Does this sport interest you?
3. He is a keen fan of Arsenal.
4. Has there ever been a more gifted athlete?
5. His ambition is to break a world record.
6. I am looking for a new trainer for our club.
7. Have many contestants entered for the competition?
8. You are welcome to take part in the discussion.
9. The fans were there to support their team.
10. Unfortunately, our team was defeated.
11. Referees outnumbered spectators.
12. Their competition is not always sporting.
II. Give the opposite of the following.
1. eventful
2. fair (adj)
3. win (v)
4. indoor games
5. lag / fall / remain behind
6. well -trained
7. long-distance
8. appealing (adj)
9. act honestly
10. bad loser
III. Match the words from columns A and B to form compound words.
A B
1. record
2. chess
3. record
4. yachts
5. chess
breaker
holder
man
player
man
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IV. Match the words from columns A and B to form collocations. Supply the
articles where necessary.
A B
1. to treat
2. athletics
3. tennis
4. to beat
5. to beat
6. competitive
7. to draw
8. to score
9. to hold
10. sporting
11. sports
12. to support
13. team
14. all-time
15. athletic
16. to win
match
spirit
point
record
record
record
coach
spirit
opposing side
club
events
toss
sports
field
meeting
fairly
V. Choose the best word to complete the sentence.
1. The spectators / audience cheered the team.
2. They arrived at the sports / sport ground on time.
3. Tennis players seldom argue with the referee / umpire / judge.
4. The crowd went wild when he beat / scored the winning goal.
5. You should exercise more to keep fine / fit.
6. The championships are conducted / held every year.
7. The team / crew were rowing hard.
VI. Supply the missing articles.
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3. The match ended in draw.
4. My dream is to score winning point in finals.
5. He held record from Moscow Olympics.
6. Our team need win to become champions again.
7. Fans / fans were eager to do it in support of their team.
8. Why did you go into training under new coach this season?
VII. Complete the sentences below with a preposition where necessary.
1. We are not …competition …anybody.
2. The team won … three points.
3. Does he have a rival … the Olympiad?
4. Winter sports do not appeal … me.
5. The attack was beaten … .
6. Several teams are competing … the trophy.
7. He never cheats … sports.
8. I am afraid he cheated … the little kid.
9. He is coaching an amateur team … the coming competition.
10. The boxer is hoping to win his title … .
11. It won’t be easy to win the Cup … them.
12. Who holds the record … the 100 metres?
13. He used to coach champions… gymnastics.
14. I am not ready to compete …him.
15. On Saturdays he indulges … long walks to the nearest park.
16. They lost … a stronger side.
17. He could not keep … …. other athletes in the race.
18. We won the game … 12 points …3.
19. I will never set … a record in any sport.
20. Our team are … strict training … the match.
VIII. Write English equivalents of.
1. выиграть
2. выиграть с легкостью
3. соперники
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5. спортивный клуб
6. забить гол
7. постоянный, преданный болельщик
8. соревноваться
9. соревнования по легкой атлетике
10. участники соревнований
IX. Translate into English.
1. Мы хотели поиграть в шахматы, но не хватало нескольких шахматных
фигур.
2. Сколько на сегодняшний день у вашей команды побед и поражений?
3. Ни одной из команд не удалось открыть счет / забить гол.
4. Матч закончился вничью.
5. В каких соревнованиях вы будете участвовать (подали заявку на
участие)?
6. Они забыли о диете и сделали себе поблажку.
7. Он послал мяч выше ворот.
8. Он умеет / не умеет проигрывать.
9. Этот судья оценил выступление наших фигуристов на 5.8.
10. Занятия биатлоном требуют значительной выносливости.
11. За какую команду вы болеете?
12. У нее самый высокий результат теста.
13. У нас в офисе новый практикант.
14. Программа Олимпиады включала соревнования по различным
легкоатлетическим дисциплинам.
15. Ее балуют родители.
16. Мы проиграли по очкам.
17. Победим ли, проиграем ли, а команда будет делать все, что от нее
зависит.
18. Парусный спорт нравится сильным и спортивным.
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FIT AND WELL!
THE KEY
I. Paraphrase the following using synonyms or synonymous
expressions.
1. kicked
2. appeal to
3. follower / supporter
4. sportsman
5. beat
6. coach
7. competitors; contest / event
8. participate / go into
9. follow / shout for
10. was beaten / lost / failed
11. judges / umpires
12. rivalry
II. Give the opposite of the following.
1. uneventful
2. unfair
3. lose, be beaten, fail
4. outdoor games
5. keep up with
6. badly –trained
7. short-distance
8. unattractive
9. cheat
10. good loser
III. Match the words from columns A and B to form compound words.
1. record-breaker
2. chess-player
3. record-holder
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IV. Match the words from columns A and B to form collocations.
Supply the articles where necessary.
1. to treat fairly
2. athletics meeting
3. tennis coach
4. to beat a record
5. to beat an opposing side
6. competitive spirit
7. to draw a match
8. to score a point
9. to hold the record
10. sporting spirit
11. sports field
12. to support a club
13. team events
14. all-time record
15. athletic sports
16. to win the toss
V. Choose the best word to complete the sentence.
1. spectators
2. sports ground
3. umpire
4. scored
5. fit
6. held
7. crew
VI. Supply the missing articles.
1. He has the stamina to become an outstanding athlete.
2. They are in competition for the prestigious trophy.
3. The match ended in a draw.
4. My dream is to score the winning point in the finals.
5. He held the record from the Moscow Olympics.
6. We need a / the win to become champions again.
7. The fans were eager to do it in support of their team.
8. Why did you go into training under a new coach this season?
VII. Complete the sentences below with a preposition where necessary.
1. IN; WITH
2. BY
3. IN / FOR
4. TO
5. OFF
6. FOR
11. FROM
12. IN / FOR
13. IN
14. AGAINST / WITH
15. IN
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VIII. Write the English equivalents.
1. win, defeat, beat
2. win hands down
3. opponents, contestants, rivals, competitors
4. rival / opposing team
5. athletic / sports club
6. score / kick a goal; score a point
7. regular / committed / faithful / loyal supporter; dedicated / devoted / loyal fan
8. contest, fight, compete
9. athletics meeting; track-and-field events
10. participants, contestants, competitors
IX. Translate into English.
1. We were eager to play (a game of) chess, but a few chessmen were missing.
2. How many wins and losses has your team had so far?
3. Neither team scored in the game.
4. The match ended in a draw. / The match was drawn. / The two teams drew.
5. Which events have you entered for?
6. They forgot about dieting and indulged (themselves).
7. He kicked the ball above the goal.
8. He is a good / bad loser.
9. This judge scored our skaters 5.8.
10. Doing / playing biathlon requires plenty of / great stamina.
11. Which side / team do you support?
12. She scored the highest mark in the test.
13. We’ve got a new trainee in the office.
14. The Olympic programme included several track-and-field events.
15. She is indulged by her parents. / Her parents indulge her a lot.
16. We lost by points.
17. Win or lose, the team will do their best / utmost.
18. Yachting appeals to the strong and sporting.
7. AT
8. ON
9. FOR
10. BACK
17. UP WITH
18. WITH; TO
19. – / UP
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Revision Vocabulary Test
Topics: Choosing a Career, Healthy and Happy, Fit and Well
I. Paraphrase the following using synonyms:
1. He hoped to have accomplished more.
2. Before selling a new product a producer should make it known to the consumer.
3. John tries to be domineering.
4. It is not easy to choose an occupation.
5. They were fired together.
6. There are a lot of hard-working students in our group.
7. A teacher should stimulate good disciplinary habits.
8. Our boss is vacating his position.
9. Does the sport interest you?
10. He entered into the competition.
11. His ambition is to break a world record.
12. Their competition is not always sporting.
13. Who scored the goal?
14. It was an exciting match.
15. This tooth has been giving me trouble for a couple of days already.
16. She’s been overworking this term.
17. The dentist found a big hole in my tooth.
18. The dentist checks my teeth regularly.
19. The death rate in this country exceeds the birth rate.
20. He lost consciousness.
21. He is likely to vomit.
II. Complete the sentences below with a preposition or adverb where necessary:
1. He is much addicted … drink.
2. The child is prone … ailments.
3. What can she be allergic …?
4. What brought … these complications?
5. She’s been burning the candle … both ends.
6. The bandage was red … blood.
7. Where does he go … his regular check-up?
8. Is there a cure … laziness?
9. This syrup will cure … your cold.
10. The water is deficient … iodine.
11. Tom was diagnosed … diphtheria.
12. He died … neglect.
13. He never cheats … sports.
14. I am not ready to compete … him.
15. They lost … a stronger side.
16. We won the game … 12 points … 3.
17. Can you run … one kilometer?
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19. Who holds the world record … 100 meters?
20. He was accepted … the course of typing.
21. I wish he had better access … the Internet.
22. What standards … achievement did the students show?
23. Our schools aim … the development of the child.
24. Does teaching appeal … you?
25. You can apply … the local careers officer … guidance.
26. Would you fill … the application form, please?
27. Why did you turn his application …?
III. Give as many English equivalents as you can think of:
1. Перспективы, возможности карьеры (3)
2. Принять, взять ответственность (2)
3. Опытный, искусный, натренированный (3)
4. Занять место, заполнить вакансию (2)
5. Зарплата, оплата, доход (5)
6. Увольнять (5)
7. Доверие, вера (3)
8. Искать работу (3)
9. Легкая победа
10. Команда соперника
11. Забить гол (2)
12. Постоянный болельщик
13. Действующий чемпион
14. Забег
15. Сидячий образ жизни
16. Плохая осанка
17. Соревноваться
18. Придерживаться диеты
19. Болезнь (5)
20. Заболеть (4)
21. Плохо себя чувствовать (4)
22. Сильная боль (3)
23. Постоянная боль