Grammar in use

Viruses cause the flu. The flu is caused by viruses.

Exercise 1. Translate sentences in Active and Passive

1. Health is traditionally defined as the freedom from disease.

2. Professor N. delivers lectures in Anatomy for the first-year students.

3. Patients with pneumonia are examined by X-rays.

4. I think they will be shown a new laboratory on Wednesday.

5. President Barack Obama signed into law The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Реформа охорони здоров’я і захисту хворих) on March 23, 2010.

6. The hospitals are stuffed by very experienced nurses.

7. Many chronic diseases were diagnosed in people over 65 years of age.

Exercise 2. A) Write the sentences in Passive. Translate

1. The American doctor receives pay directly from a patient.

2. The federal government finances a number of hospitals.

3. Businesses must offer health insurance to the full-time employees.

4. The X-ray examination confirmed the diagnosis.

5. President Barack Obama signed into law The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010.

6. The Americans call the new program Obamacare.

B) Write the sentences in Active. Translate

7. Dental service is paid by the patients both in Great Britain and the USA.

8. The patients are examined and treated by highly qualified specialists.

9. When professional consultation is needed the family doctor arranges for the specialist.

10. The results of experiments were discussed by the scientists.

11. Each type of diseases is treated by specially trained specialists.

12. The students will be asked on the structure of the skeleton next class.

Exercise 3. Use the appropriate article where it is necessary. Explain your choice

1. The health service in … USA is different from that in … Ukraine.

2. They are … practicing psychologists.

3. Sarah can play … guitar. Playing … guitar helps her manage stress and depression.

4. I live in … hostel. … hostel is new.

5. … price of medications keeps rising.

6. He told me about the training of physicians in … United Kingdom.

7. They did not study … Literature. I study … Anatomy and … Physiology.

8.  Please wait for … hour for the test results.

9. They were admitted to the hospital … last night.

Exercise 4. Put questions to the underlined words

1. There are more than 150 health centers in the UK.

2. In big towns there are some private hospitals called “nursing homes”.

3. These substances are highly intoxicating for people.

4. Each doctor decides for himself how many patients he can examine for an hour.

5. The National Health Service Act was introduced into practice in 1948.

6. He decided to become a surgeon at the age of twenty-four.

7. Free emergency medical treatment is given to any visitor from abroad.

8. All citizens must be provided with effective health services.

9. Nurses are in close contact with patients as long as they are in hospital.

10. Influenza viruses can be inactivated by sunlight, disinfectants and detergents.

Exercise 5. Open the brackets. Translate

1. Many dangerous diseases (to cause) by viruses.

2. This 80-year-old lady (to have) a very serious car crash two days ago.

3. I think the patient (to examine) by the neurologist at 9.00 tomorrow.

4. General practitioners (to provide) the primary medical service in Great Britain.

5. Penicillin (to discover) in 1928 by Alexander Fleming.

6. The centre of British commerce and finance, legal system and press (to be) London, the capital.

7. She (to carry out) laboratory studies with her assistants now.

8. The patient (to suffer) from headaches last year.