Срсп 10-11. Physical diagnoses. You and your health.

Практические цели: Практиковать студентов в устной речи по теме, практиковать студентов в изложении текста и в высказываниях проблемных вопросов по теме, обобщение и закрепление лексического материала.

How Healthy Are You?

Check your knowledge.

What sort of shape are you in? Are you the sort of person who goes for a run each morning , or are you the other kind who gets out of breath when reaching for a cigarette?

Maybe you have a lot of energy. You go to work or school, you make decisions all day, you do extra work at home. Exercise? You don’t have enough time - why bother anyway?

Well, the answer to that question is your body design. Human beings weren’t built for sitting at a desk all day: your body is constructed for hunting, jumping, lifting, running, climbing and a variety of other activities. If you don’t get the exercise that your body wants , then things can go badly wrong. Your mind works all day , and your to severe illness to early death.

Not a very cheerful thought, and of course the natural reaction is “It’s not going to happen to me”. Maybe, maybe not. Here are two ways of looking after yourself: firstly, by seeing if you are doing the right sort of exercise, and secondly by seeing if you have the right kind of diet.

Ex. 1. Summarize the text.

Ex. 2. Examining a patient. Match the examination in column A with the instructions in column B.

Example: I’d just like to examine your throat. Could you just open your mouth as wide as you can?

A B

6. the throat a. remove your sock and shoe

7. the ears b. remove your top clothing

8. the chest c. turn your head this way

9. the back d. open your mouth

10. the foot e. tilt tour head back

11. the nasal passage f. stand up

Ex. 3. Imagine, you’re a doctor. Try to diagnose these illnesses.

1. Common symptoms: weakness, fever, sore throat, and "puffiness" to the cheek(s). The swelling may extend from the cheeks to under the angle of the jaw.

2. This common childhood illness has its highest incidence in the spring. One has fever, malaise, headache , and sore throat. These symptoms will give way to a rash (pink, circular spots) that starts on the trunk, arms, and legs. Duration of the rash is typically 1-3 days.

3. Common symptoms in adults include : fever, chills, runny nose, sore throat, swollen glands, frontal headache, muscle and body aches, joint pains, dry cough, chest pains with coughing and weakness.

4. The common presentation is abdominal pain with fever, loss of appetite, and nausea. Within hours (6-8 hours) the pain localizes to the right lower quadrant of the abdomen.

5. Common symptoms include productive cough, fever, and chills. Shortness of breath is seen in more severe cases, breathing OUT is more difficult than breathing IN. The act of breathing OUT may be accompanied by a musical wheeze

6. This infection will commonly start as an upper respiratory infection with symptoms of runny nose, fever, and sore throat. A cough mat be present, but it is usually dry and nonproductive. Eventually a rash erupts, first on the face or trunk finally spreading to the limbs. The rash starts as red spots that later turn to blistery bumps (vesicles). The rash will eventually crust over, scab and only rarely cause scarring. This process may take 7-14 days.

7. It is generally a 3-7 days illness (often seasonal) that results in congestion, runny nose, sneezing, watery eyes, sore throat and dry cough. There may be an associated low grade fever.

Ex. 4. Suggested topics for conversation.

Suppose that:

1. you’ve scalded your hand:

2. your neighbor has strained his arm (elbow);

3. your little niece (nephew) has got a splinter in her (his) finger:

4. you have undergone an operation and are telling your friend about the surgeon who performed it;

Ex. 5. Topics for oral composition.

• An accident you witnessed.

• A visit to throat (nerve, lung etc.)

• The way you were treated for flue.

• The way someone attended to you when you were ill.

• At the hospital

• Coming back to the University after being ill.

Ex. 6. Dramatize the situations.

1. Mary was on duty in her hospital . She felt that something was wrong with her. By 8:30 she felt awful, her temperature was 40°C. Another nurse noticed it and asked what the matter was and called the doctor.

2) You are visited by your doctor. He doesn’t like your symptoms and tells you not to get up until your temperature goes down. He listens to your heart and takes tour blood pressure.

Then he writes out some prescriptions and promises to return next day.

3) The moment the doctor leaves you make and attempt to get up, though you are aching all over. You say that you can’t bear lying in bed without anything to do. Tour mother tries to bring you back to reason.

4) One autumn day Mr. Swing returned home from his office complaining of a splitting headache. He was sure he had a touch of flu and decided to take a couple of aspirins. But his wife wanted him to consult his doctor.

5) You’re 45, a housewife, have 3 children.

You came to consult your doctor. You get a pain in your stomach after meals . Fried and oily foods seem to be the worst.

6) You are a student of 19. You have constant headaches. Your headache is worse in the evening. You came to consult the doctor.

7) Jack and Chuck are talking about their health and about things their doctors have told them to do. Jack has just had a complete physical examination (his “annual check up”), and he says the doctor is not happy about his blood pressure. Chuck says his doctor had advised him to lose ten pounds: he says this (losing weight) is the hardest thing. Chuck has diabetes , and Jack asks him about the restrictions the doctor has placed on his died.

Learning recommendations:

Class activity: In this unit of the course book students are supposed to get introduced with the new material: read the text, translate into their native language, summarize in English, complete post-reading tasks and grammar exercises, discuss new speech topics, compose monologues and dialogues in the class.

Home task: Students are assigned to find out additional short information about specific topic of the unit, complete grammar exercises, prepare reports given by the teacher.

Literature:

1. Учебно-методический комплекс для студентов 1 курса неязыковых специальностей, М.Ж. Тусупбекова, А.М. Мухтарханова, 2008, Астана, _____стр.