4. Role-play the dialogue.

At a café

Alexander: Where shall we sit?

Mike: Let’s sit over there near the window.

Waiter: Can I help you?

M: Yes, could you show us the menu, please?

W: Certainly. Here it is. Are you ready to order?

M: Yes, we’ll have fish and chips, please.

W: Anything else?

A: Yes, please. An apple pie and a vanilla ice-cream.

W: What will you have to drink?

A: I’ll have a grapefruit juice.

M: And I’ll have a strawberry milk shake, please. How do you like fish and chips?

A: It’s great. It’s really delicious.

M: How about the juice?

A: It’s very nice too, thank you.

W: Here is your bill. That’ll be ₤5.50, please. Thank you.

M: Thank you.

W: Good bye.

5. Learn the dialogue by heart. At the restaurant

Waiter: Good evening, sir. Are you alone?

A: Good evening. Yes, I’m alone.

W: Would you like to sit over there, sir? Near the window?

A: Yes, thank you. May I look through the menu?

W: Of course. Here it is.

* * *

W: Have you decided yet, sir? May I take your order?

A: As a starter I’d have a tomato juice. Oh, no, I’ll have an onion soup.

W: OK. How about the main course, sir?

A: I’m not sure… Perhaps you can help me?

W: Oh, if I were you, sir, I’d have a steak in wine sauce. I myself like it very much. Moreover, it’s the speciality of the day (фирм. блюдо).

A: All right. I’ll have the steak.

W: What would you like with the steak, sir?

A: A salad and some mashed potatoes, please.

W: Would you like something to drink?

A: Yes. Some mineral water, please. And could I see the wine list?

W: Of course. Here it is, sir.

A: I’ll have some French red wine.

A: Waiter!

W: Yes, sir… DO you want the bill?

A: Yes. How much is it?

W: ₤7.25, sir.

6. Answer the questions:

1) How many meals a say do you have?

2) What’s the biggest meal of the day?

3) Where do you have it?

4) You have lunch at the office, don’t you?

5) How long does it take you to have it?

6) Are there usually many people in the café?

7) Is the choice of dishes large?

8) What can you say about the quality of the food?

9) What do you usually have for breakfast?

10) Which drinks do you like and which don’t you like?

11) Which fruit do you like?

12) What is your favorite food (pizza, fish and chips, roast chicken, meat pie, hot dogs or humburgers)?

13) What can you make yourself and what can’t you make (omelette, boiled eggs, fish and chips, scones, pizza, cakes, roast chicken, clear soup, stew or cutlets)?

At the doctor’s

1. Learn the new words.

aid – помощь

Emergency Medical Aid (Service) – скорая помощь

ambulance – карта скорой помощи

clinic (policlinic) – клиника (поликлиника)

consulting-room / surgery – приемная врача

hospital – больница

maternity home – родильный дом

public health – здравоохранение

ward – палата

ache – продолжительная боль

toothache – зубная боль

headache – головная боль

stomach-ache – боль в желудке

appendicitis – аппендицит

attack – приступ

boil – нарыв

bronchitis – бронхит

cancer – рак

cold – простуда

cold in the head – насморк ( = running nose)

complication – осложнение

disease – болезнь

fever – лихорадка, жар

influenza (Am-grippe) – грипп

tonsillitis – тонзиллит, ангина

asthma – астма

infections disease – инфекционная болезнь

pneumonia – воспаление легких

drops – капли

injection – укол, инъекция

medicine – лекарство

mustard plaster – горчичник

pill – пилюля

mixture – микстура

treatment – лечение

to bandage – перевязывать

to be down with pneumonia – лежать с воспалением легких

to be operated on for – перенести операцию

to be put on sick-list – получить бюллетень

to be X-rayed – пройти рентген

to bring down the temperature – сбить температуру

to catch (a) cold – простудиться

to cough – кашлять

to cure – вылечить, излечить

to die of – умереть от

to examine a patient – осмотреть больного

to fall in – заболеть

to feel feverish – чувствовать жар

to feel one’s pulse – щупать пульс

to give an injection – сделать укол

to have a tooth filled – запломбировать зуб

to have a tooth (pulled) out – вырвать зуб

to keep one’s bed – оставаться в постели

to listen to one’s heart (lungs) – выслушать сердце (легкие)

to make one’s blood-count – сделать анализ крови

to make out a prescription – выписать рецепт

to measure one’s blood pressure – измерить давление

to prescribe some medicine – выписать лекарство

to recover – выздоравливать

to sneeze – чихать

to take one’s temperature – измерять температуру

to treat (for an illness) – лечить от болезни

to be running a temperature – иметь температуру ( = to have temperature)

to be sick – тошнить

to feel seedy – чувствовать себя неважно

I have a sore throat – у меня болит горло

I have a pain in my back – у меня болит спина

it is hard to swallow – трудно глотать

my nose is clogged up – у меня заложен нос

Where do you feel pain? – Где у вас болит?

I’m quite fit – я чувствую себя хорошо

my temperature is 37.8

thermometer – термометр

I have a slight temperature – у меня небольшая температура

to take somebody’s temperature – измерить температуру

I have a sharp pain here – я испытываю острую боль вот здесь

What do you complain of? – На что жалуетесь?

dentist – зубной врач

physician – врач, доктор

specialist – специалист

eye specialist / oculist – окулист

ear, nose and throat specialist – отоларинголог

surgeon – хирург

therapeutist – терапевт

insomnia – бессонница

indigestion – несварение, нарушение пищеварения

I’m dizzy – у меня кружиться голова

Have you any appetite? – У вас есть аппетит?

breathe deeply – дышите глубоко

let me check your lungs (heart) – поверим ваши легкие (сердце)

you have all the symptoms of influenza – у вас все признаки гриппа

you are run down – вы переутомлены

How long have you been this way? – Как долго это продолжается?

Is it hard to swallow? – Вам больно глотать?

let me see your tongue – покажите язык

hope to see you in a better shape soon – поправляйтесь

you’ll be all right soon – поправляйтесь ( = keep well)

to come round to see somebody – повидать, навестить кого-либо

What’s troubling you? – Что вас беспокоит?

What disturbs you? – Что вас беспокоит?

What do you complain of? – На что в жалуетесь?

I’m on the mend – я поправляюсь

I’m better – мне лучше