Post-text assignments

Exercise 4. Answer the questions.

1. How is the American Health Саrе System organized?

2. How does a family doctor work?

3. What facilities can a family doctor use?

4. Who does the family doctor do if a special help is needed for his patients?

5. What medical service does the majority of Americans prefer?

6. What units are common for the majority of hospitals in the USA?

7. Who spends the major part of their time in close contact with patient?

8. What kind of specialists work in hospitals?

9. What is the cost of medical саrе in the USA?

10. Why did American government work out two programs of medical service? What are they?

Exercise 5. Translate into English.

Медична установа, регулярно обстежувати, домовлятися зі спеціалістом, отримувати платню безпосередньо, сестринський персонал, хірургне відділення, відділення акушерства та гінекології, педіатричне відділення, відділення загальної медицинт, отримувати невідкладну допомогу, дуже велика вартість, надавати безкоштовну медичну допомогу, сліпі діти, за рахнок держави.

Exercise 6. Match the words in A with their synonyms in B.

A B

1. realize	a) mortality rate
2. vary	b) get
3. adequate	c) necessary
4. meet the needs	d) usual
5. death rate	e) understand
6. obtain	f) harmful influence
7. essential	g) satisfy demands
8. regular	h) sufficient
9. develop	i) differ
10. negative effect	j) elaborate

Exercise 7. Substitute the words and phrases in bold type by close in their meanings from the text.

1. Throughout the world people's health саrе demands differ very much.

2. Urgent patients get саrе without delay.

3. The price of medical саrе in the USA is very expensive.

4. А family doctor gives his patients regular checks.

5. The family doctor receives money directly from the patient.

6. The patients are taken to hospitals or clinics.

7. Most of the population has their pension benefits at their place of employment.

8. Medicaid is a federal-state program giving free medical саrе for the poor.

9. Medicare is a federal program providing partially free medical саrе for the over sixties.

10. This care is give on government’s money.

Exercise 8. Put questions to underlined words.

1. The Health Саrе System in the USA is organized in three levels.

2. А private doctor gives his patients regular examinations.

3. In case professional service and саrе is needed the family doctor arranges for the specialist.

4. The family doctor receives pay directly from the patient.

5. The patients are admitted to hospitals or clinics.

6. The nursing stuff is very important.

7. Nurses are in close contact with patients as long as they are in hospital.

8. Most hospitals have at least the following major medical departments or units: surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and general medicine.

9. Emergency patients acquire immediate attention.

10. The cost of medical саrе in the USA is very high.

Exercise 9. Put the verb into the present simple. Be sure you spell it correctly!

1. She __________________ (play) tennis every Sunday.

2. He __________________ (buy) a cup of coffee every morning.

3. Julie __________________ (study) French at school.

4. Luke __________________ (try) hard to be polite.

5. She __________________ (enjoy) going swimming.

6. Lucy __________________ (wash) her hair every day.

7. John never __________________ (cry).

8. My mother always __________________ (say) that love is more important

than money.

9. I hope Julie __________________ (pass) the exam.

10. The plane __________________ (fly) low over the airport.

Exercise 10. Re-write the sentences below.

Write these sentences in the third person singular:

1.They catch the train every day at 6.00pm.

(____________________________________________________________)

2. The letters arrive every morning by post.

(____________________________________________________________)

3.Volunteers in Africa do wonderful things to help the local populations.

(____________________________________________________________)

4. Planes fly weekly between Madrid and Moscow.

(____________________________________________________________)

Write these sentences in the question form (start each question with "Do" or

"Does"):

5. Nick and Emma rarely watch television at the weekend.

(____________________________________________________________)

6. Steve goes shopping with his wife on Friday evenings.

(____________________________________________________________)

7. The computer breaks down very frequently.

(____________________________________________________________)

Write these sentences in the negative form:

8. Mary' s baby cries all day.

(____________________________________________________________)

9. The Spanish love going to see bullfights.

(____________________________________________________________)

10. Sally washes her motorbike during her lunch hour.

(____________________________________________________________)

Exercise 11. Complete this text about Anna’s daily routine using the verbs in

the Present Simple.

Every day she __________ up at 7 0’clock but she usually __________ in bed until 7.30. Then she __________ a shower and __________dressed. Meanwhile her mother __________ her breakfast. They __________ a car so she __________ to school. There she __________ classes from 8.30 until 1.30. She __________ English but he __________ Chemistry.

She __________ lunch with her friends in the school canteen and afterwards they usually __________ together. Then she __________ home, she __________ a coke and __________ to music before doing her homework.

Anna __________ dinner at 8 o’clock and after that she and her parents __________ for a while. At 10 o’clock she usually __________ to bed and she __________ asleep almost immediately.

TEST

1. American Health Саrе System is organized ....

а) perfectly

b) by the federal government

с) in three levels

d) as a private system

2. А family or ... gives his patients regular examinations.

а) a physician

b) a private doctor

с) а consulting physician

d) a hospital surgeon

3. A doctor can make use … hospital facilities whenever necessary.

a) in

b) of

c) at

d) with

4. Most Americans ... for all their medical needs.

а) consult their family doctor

b) go to the consulting centres

с) саll on a doctor

d) соme to the hospital

5. Most hospitals ... in the USA.

а) have several departments

b) are specialized

с) have major medical departments

d) two or three departments

6. Most of the population ....

a) have their health insurance

b) use Medicaid

c) use Medicare

d) have no their health insurance

7. The programs Medicaid and Medicare ....

а) were created by American population

b) are state programs

с) are based on insurance

d) were developed by the federal government

8. Dependent children receive medical саrе from ... program.

a) Medicare

b) government-financed

с) state

d) Medicaid

9. The elderly people over 65 are provided with ....

а) free medical саrе

b) partially free medical саrе

с) life insurance

d) disability protection

10. А great negative effect on the standards of national health is produced by...

а) genetic problems

b) drug addiction and ecological problems

с) aging and disabilities

d) life style and personal habits