Міністерство освіти і науки України

Сумський державний університет

Методичні вказівки

з граматики англійської мови

для студентів I курсу медичного інституту

денної форми навчання

Суми

Вид-во СумДУ

2007

Методичні вказівки з граматики англійської мови для студентів І курсу медичного інституту / Укладач І.М.Терлецька. – Суми: Вид-во СумДУ, 2007. – 39с.

Кафедра іноземних мов

Tenses in the active voice

1 a) Read the sentences describing the nurses' work in the morning:

1 The working day begins very early. 2 The nurses take the patients' temperature, fulfil the doctors' prescriptions. 3 They apply mustard plasters, cup the patients, give injections, make compresses, and give medicines.

b) Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple using the cor­rect tense forms:

1 Yesterday the nurses (to take) the patients' temperature. 2 They (to fulfil) the doctors' prescriptions. 3 The nurses (to cup) the patients and (to apply) mustard plasters. 4 Than nurse (to give) medicines to the patients. 5 She (to make) a compress to a patient.

2 a) Read the sentences describing the doctors' work:

1 Every day doctors in charge make the morning round. 2 They examine the patients and talk with them. 3 The doctors listen to their hearts and lungs, palpate the abdominal parts. 4 They check blood pressure. 5 They look at the tonsils, feel their puls and make the diagnosis. 6 They prescribe the treatment to every patient.

b) Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense-forms:

1 This doctor (to make) the morning round every day. He (to examine) the patients and (to talk) with them. 2 Yesterday this doctor (to examine) the patients with great care. He (to check) their blood.

3 Transform into the interrogative form:

1 A nurse comes to the patient to give him penicillin injections. 2 A physician listens to the patient's heart and lungs and measures his blood pressure. 3 The nurse takes the patient's temperature. 4 The professor wrote many scientific works. 5 The cellular fraction consists of red blood cells, white blood cells and blood platelets. 6 The normal coagulation time is from three to five minutes. 7 Plasma is the fluid portion of the blood .

4 Transform the following sentences into the past simple making all the nece­ssary changes:

1 Small changes in body water cause profound changes in function­ing. 2 Within a few days or a week the changes usually disappear. 3 Pain develops early. 4 Within twelve to twenty-four hours the pain and fever subside and the tympanic membrane becomes less red and swollen. 5 At times the inflammation persists for several days.

5 Transform into the future simple:

1 Breathing fresh air helps much in recovering from any disease. 2 The article deals with the therapeutic use of antibiotics. 3 Ukrainian surgeons perform open heart operations. 4 The patient undergoes a special course of treatment at the hospital. 5 Scientists penetrate into the secrets of nature. 6 He trains himself to discretion and patience.

6Translate the following sentences:

1 У мене велика рана на руці. 2 На моїй руці є припухлість (набряк). 3 Я відчуваю сильний біль тут. 4 Учора я не міг поворухнути цією рукою.5 У мене сильний біль внизу живота праворуч. 6 Цей гострий біль непокоїть мене. 7 У мене була нудота і блювання.

7 a) Read the doctor’s questions about localization of the pain:

1 Do you feel any pain here? 2 Where do you feel the pain? 3 Show me the place where you feel the pain. 4 In what region do you have your pain?

b) Fill in the intervals with verbs in the correct form:

1 … you feel any pain yesterday? 2 Where … you feel that pain? 3 Show me the place where you … that pain yesterday 4 In what region … you … your pain?

8 Explain the use of to do in each sentence:

1 Did you speak to him? No, I didn't .2 Do stay with us a little longer. 3 Where does he live? 4 He will do it by himself. 5 Don't open the window. 6 What did he do there? 7 I am sorry you don't know my brother.—But I do know him.

9 Put questions to a nurse. Fill in the intervals with verbs in the correct form:

1 What ... this patient's temperature? 2 ... you give him the drugs yesterday? 3 How ... times did ... give him these tablets? 4 Did you ... him mustard plasters on the back? 5 When ... you cup him last week? 6 ... you fulfil all my prescriptions every day? 7 Have a laryngologist ... him today? 8 What … he say?

10 You are a pediatrician and receive sick children in a polyclinic.

1 You are talking with a sick boy's mother. Ask her:

1. 1 Her boy's name and surname. 2 His age. 3 What persons their family consists of.

2. 1 What troubles this mother in her boy's condition? 2 What's happened? 3 When he fell ill. 4 What signs she noticed. 5 What his temperature is. 6 If she called in a doctor. 7 What medicine she gave to her child. 8 If he was ill with any infectious diseases. 9 What in­fectious diseases he had. 10 If he has got a BCG vaccine.

11 Answer the following questions. Make each answer a sentence:

1 Can you give intravenous injections? 2 What is it easier to give intramuscular or intravenous injections? 3 How old were you when you entered the Institute? 4 Do you know much about measles? 5 Why is it important to give first aid on the spot?

12 Answer the doctor’s questions using the given phrases:

1 What was wrong with you yesterday? A high temperature. 2 What else troubles you? A sore throat. 3 What do you complain of? My headache.

13 You are in a cardiological department. The chief physician of the department will answer your questions. Ask him as follows:

a) General facts about the department.

1 How many wards there are in this department. 2 If they have large or small wards. 3 If they have additional out-houses. 4 What devices, apparatus one can see.

b) Their patients.

1 How many patients this department houses. 2 What diseases their patients have. 3 If they have patients suffering from rheumatism, hypertonicity, ischemic diseases and others. 4 If their patients pay for their treatment.

c) Their method of treatment.

1 What modern methods of treatment they use. 2 If they use the method of detoxication of the human organism. 3 If they use ultra-violet and laser rays for the treatment of blood. 4 What methods they practice for the examination of the patients. 5 If they use ultra-sound method. 6 If they practice radio-immunological methods. 7 If they use endoscopy. 8 If they have a cardiograph. 9 How they treat active rheumatism, hypertonicity and others.

d) The students’ work.

1 If the medical students have practice at their department. 2 What procedures the students do. 3 Who teaches the students to fulfil different procedures. 4 What tasks their practical programme includes. 5 If the students fulfil their tasks.

14Translate the following questions:

1 На що ви скаржитесь? 2 Що сталося? 3 Що ще непокоїть вас? 4 На що ви скаржилися вчора? 5 Що вас непокоїло?