VI. Let’s have fun! Read some jokes on a medical subject.

1. Doctor: What your husband needs, Mrs. Brown, is a complete rest. I

have prescribed a sleeping pill.

Mrs. Brown: Very well, doctor. When shall I give it to him?

Doctor: Don’t give it to him. Take it yourself.

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2. First doctor: You’ve cured your patient. What’s there to worry about

now?

Young doctor: I don’t know which of the medicines cured him.

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3. Uncle Bob: Well, Frank, what are you going to do during this

vacation?

Frank: Last year I had mumps and chicken-pox This year I don’t

know what I am going to do.

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4. "My wife has the worst memory I’ve heard of."

"Forgets everything, eh?"

"No, remembers everything."

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VII. Translate the jokes and tell them to your fellow-students.

1.

• Доктор, я проглотил золотую ложку. (to swallow)

• Когда это случилось?

• Три месяца назад.

• Что же Вы не пришли раньше?

• Я не нуждался в деньгах.

2.

• Оба зуба у Вас воспалены, придется их удалить. (to be inflamed)

• И сколько это будет стоить?

• 150 долларов.

• 150 за две минуты работы?

• Ну, если Вам нравится, я могу тащить их медленно.

VIII. Make up dialogues through mime. The performed actions should be rather slow to allow the other students to speak for the mimes.

Suggested topics and stages for actions:

1. At the Doctor’s

   1. A patient enters the room and tells the doctor what he (she) is suffering from.

   2. The doctor asks the patient to strip to the waist and examines him (her).

   3. The patient asks the doctor what’s wrong with him. He seems to be worried.

   4. The doctor tries to comfort the patient and writes out a prescription.

2. At the Bedside

   1. A boy complains of a sore throat.

   2. His mother is worried. She takes his temperature, it’s normal. His throat is all right.

   3. Then the boy pretends to have a stomach-ache and a headache, to be sick and giddy.

   4. His mother understands his tricks and orders him to go to school.

3. At the Dentist’s

   1. A patient complains of a bad toothache.

   2. The dentist asks him to sit down and examines his mouth. One of his teeth should be pulled out.

   3. The patient is afraid. He feels sick and giddy.

   4. The dentist pulls out his tooth and shows it to the patient who brightens up and looks happy.

I. Choose the correct word and use it in the right form.

1. The doctor tried to cheer up the woman by saying that her son (to be cured, to be treated) by the best specialists, and the illness soon (to be cured, to be treated) completely.

2. “You must follow all my instructions”, the doctor said angrily. “There can be no excuse for not (to take, to accept, to receive, to adopt) the medicine regularly.”

3. He was taken to hospital and operated on (for, from, with) appendicitis.

4. When people have pain in their teeth they go to a (surgeon, dentist, oculist) to have the holes in their teeth filled.

5. She must have fainted because it’s so (stuffy, fresh, cool, chilly) here. Don’t worry, she’ll come round soon.