- •Combined Language Skills Practice: a Handbook for Medical Students
- •Contents
- •Chapter I. Reading comprehension
- •Text 1. Exercise - a key to fitness
- •Text 2. Meningitis
- •Text 3. Living a long life
- •Text 5. What Is Bronchitis?
- •Text 6. Blood
- •Text 7. Mouth and Teeth
- •Text 8. How fluoride works
- •Chapter II. Use of english
- •1. Lexical Cloze Tasks
- •Oral cancer – risk factors
- •Old age and the brain
- •Oral hygiene
- •Wild treatments
- •2. Multiple Choice Tasks
- •Pneumonia
- •A Headache Martyr
- •What Is Appendicitis?
- •3. Word Formation Tasks
- •Respiratory System
- •Functions
- •Human Physiology
- •Dreaming
- •Malaria
- •Chapter III. Grammar
- •1. Grammar of Tenses and Verb Forms
- •An Anatomy Class
- •A Dental Clinic
- •Human Anatomy
- •The Development of Dentistry
- •E. Open the brackets using the correct verb form Why Do I Need to Wash My Hands?
- •Emotion Location
- •Your Ribs
- •Taking Care of Bones
- •I. Open the brackets using the correct verb form How Bones Grow
- •A Case Study
- •2. Grammar Tests
- •1 Underline the correct form of the verbs
- •2 Complete the conversation using the Present Simple or the Present Continuous. Use short forms (for example 'm, 're, 's, don't, etc.)
- •3 Write the questions to these answers
- •4. Read the case study and write answers in the same tense as the questions
- •1 Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences
- •2 Correct the mistakes in the sentences
- •3 Complete the text with the connectors below
- •1 Reorder the words to write sentences
- •2 Complete this gp's referral letter with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous form of the verbs in brackets
- •3 Write the answers Mr Nesbitt would give to these questions
- •1 Write the comparative and superlative forms of these adjectives
- •2 Read each sentence. If it is correct, write a tick (/). If there is a mistake, correct it
- •3 Complete these sentences with the comparative or superlative forms of the adjectives in exercise 1
- •1 Complete the questions
- •3 Complete the questions in the dialogue
- •1 Match the beginnings and ends of these sentences
- •3 Use these verbs with will, won't, or shall to complete the sentences. Use short form
- •1 Read each sentence. If it is correct, write a tick (). If there is a mistake, correct it
- •2 Complete the sentences with should / shouldn't and one of the verbs below
- •3 Write two pieces of advice for each of these problems. They can be negative or positive
- •1 Choose the correct expression to complete the sentences
- •2 Complete the answers to the questions using the information in brackets
- •1 Underline the correct form of the verb in each sentence
- •2 Match the beginnings and endings of these Zero Conditional sentences, and complete them with the verbs below in the correct form
- •3 Complete these First and Zero Conditional sentences with the verbs given in the correct form. They are not always given in the correct order
- •1 Read each sentence. If it is correct, tick (). If there is a mistake, correct it
- •2 Complete the sentences by choosing a, b, or с
- •3 Complete these sentences using the correct forms of the verbs in brackets
- •1 Reorder the words to write sentences
- •2 Underline the word or phrase that completes the sentence
- •3 Read each sentence. If it is correct, write a tick (). If there is a mistake, correct it
- •1 Put the words in the correct order
- •2 Complete the sentences
- •3 Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct tense using a future form
- •1 Underline the correct form of the verb in these sentences
- •2 Read each sentence. If it is correct, write a tick (). If there is a mistake, correct it
- •3 Use the Past Simple or the Present Perfect to complete the conversation between a nurse and a patient.
- •1 Complete the sentences using the Present Passive. Use short forms
- •2 Rewrite these Active sentences using the Past Passive
- •3 Complete the case history with the words below, using the Present or Past Passive or Active forms of the verbs below. Some verbs can be used more than once
- •1 Correct the mistake in each sentence
- •3 Complete the text using the Present Continuous or be going to form of the verbs in brackets. Use short forms
- •1 Reorder the words to write sentences. Add commas and full stops where necessary
- •2 Complete the sentences using the words below
- •3 Complete these sentences to describe your use or opinion of alternative medicine. In each sentence, use one of the words below.
- •1 Match the beginnings and ends of the sentences
- •2 Complete the text with used to,(be) used to, or (get) used to in the correct form. Nursing since the 1950s
- •3 Complete the sentences with get or got used to /used to/use to/didn't use to and the verbs below
- •Chapter IV. Listening comprehension
- •Part 1 Mr Gumley
- •Part 2 Mrs Emma Sharp
- •Part 3 Miss Grace Donaldson
- •Part 4 Mr Pritt
- •Part 5 Barry Scott
- •Part 6 Mrs Mary Lock
- •References
3 Complete these sentences to describe your use or opinion of alternative medicine. In each sentence, use one of the words below.
because for that's why so that so to
example Homeopathy...
Homeopathy has no scientific basis, so I wouldn't use it.
I believe in... 5 I don't...
I'd like to try... 6 I'm sceptical about...
I'd never use... 7 Therapists...
I sometimes... 8 Conventional medicine...
Test 17
1 Match the beginnings and ends of the sentences
We used to a seeing the new doctor.
I didn't always use b to children dying.
Now we are used to с see her every week.
You never get used d ill.
5 I have got used to being e to be so ill.
2 Complete the text with used to,(be) used to, or (get) used to in the correct form. Nursing since the 1950s
When I was a student nurse, I quickly _________1 to the smell of medicinal alcohol. It was everywhere.
You see, equipment ____________ 2 be made of glass, not plastic, needles __________3 be sterilized in a flame, and thermometers kept in jars of alcohol. I remember that when disposable syringes appeared, I
couldn't _____________4 throwing them away. IV solution ____________5 come in glass bottles; we didn't _____________6 use plastic bags. In the 50s we didn't even ______________7 wear protective clothing. It was only when AIDS appeared that we _____________8 changing gloves all the time. These days, nurses ______________ 9 things like ICUs and computers. My daughter is a nurse and she ___________10 operating complicated equipment - something that seems to come easy to younger people. I have never been able _____________11to computers – they scare me.
I remember that we _______________12 do a lot more hands-on nursing than they do now. Student nurses these days just don't _______________13 making beds and cleaning floors during their training. All that's done by nursing assistants. In my day, if you wanted to be a nurse you had to _______________14 hard work, long hours, and low pay. My daughter insists that none of these things have changed.
3 Complete the sentences with get or got used to /used to/use to/didn't use to and the verbs below
give use see wear cry
1 Lots has changed - we ____________hundreds of patients with infectious diseases.
2 Lots has changed – we ____________ patients so many antibiotics.
3 I know it's a bit of a shock, but eventually you will ______________ people scream.
4 That's all right; we _______________ people ____________ us at the last minute to cancel appointments.
5 I've ____________one system, now I've got to _____________ a new one.
6 I just couldn't _______________ these patches.
7 I used to be tough - I never ______________ . Now, I often get upset.
Chapter IV. Listening comprehension
Exercise A. You will hear six recordings in which doctors explain patients what investigations are necessary for them. Read the questions and complete the tasks. You will hear the recordings twice.