Яков Аракин - Практический курс английского языка 2 курс

В довершение ко всему я простудился. 5. Я задыхаюсь. 6. С легкими у вас все в порядке. 7.

Глубоко вдохните через нос. 8. У вас может быть нервное расстройство. 9. Регулярно

питайтесь и придерживайтесь овощной диеты. 10 По столовой ложке три раза в день. 11.

Обещаю полное выздоровление в течение трех месяцев. 12. Я Это обдумаю. 13. Я рада, что

застала тебя дома. 14. У меня уйма новостей. 15. Ни одного! 16. Она досаждала ему уже два

дня, 17. Я была единственным врачом в приемной. 18. Бедняжка! 19. Не говори глупостей! 20.

Для начала я как раз выбрала самый легкий зуб. 21. Ну, и как у тебя пошли дела? 22. Я

сделала ему пару уколов. 23. Может быть, мне лучше забежать..? 24, Он их сохранит на

память обо мне.

V. Reproduce Text В so that a question is asked about each sentence said by

the patient or the doctor. Recite the dialogue in class.

18 See Notes on Synonyms and Antonyms on p. 18.

Example: Patient: You'd better ask me what is not the matter with me, doctor.

Doctor: Is it really as bad as that? What are you complaining of ?

Patient: Insomnia... and pains in the stomach.

Doctor: Oh, dear, isn't it too much for one man?

VI. Relell Text С in indirect spech: a) speaking on the part of the old man;

b) reproducing Nell's talk with Bert over the telephone. You may find the

following phrases useful:

a) to look a miserable wreck, to suffer from, to cheer smb. up, to be in despair, to be in high

spirits; b) to be afraid that, to be sorry for, to doubt smb.'s skill, to wonder if..., to feel hurt, to

suggest that one should...

VII. Study Essential Vocabulary (II) and

a) translate the illustrative examples into Russian;

b) express in writing the suggested idea using do for emphasis. Add a

sentence to show that the emphasis is necessary:

Examples:

Your brother did go to the chemist's to have your prescription made up

though he was pressed for time. Mother told you to put on your coat but you wouldn't and you did

catch a cold.

1. to have a nervous breakdown; 2. to keep to a diet; 3. to try to make an appointment with; 4.

to give (get) an injection; 5. to get sick leave; 6. to set in (about complications); 7. to prescribe pills

for; 8. to undergo a treatment; 9. to recover from; 10. to diagnose Smb.'s illness (as); 11. to have

one's tooth filled; 12. to need the services of a surgeon.

VIII. a) Supply prepositions where necessary:

Scarlet fever is an infectious fever, marked .. the appearance ... the second day ... a bright red

rash consisting ... closely-set red spots. Shortly after the patient develops a high temperature and

suffers ... painful sore throat. ... the third or fourth day the rash starts to fade and ... favourable cases

the temperature falls and the patient feels better. ... the end ... a week the rash usually disappears.

Complete recovery may be expected ... the following month, The complications ... scarlet fever are

very serious, the commonest being inflammation ... the ear. Scarlet fever is essentially a disease ...

children and young persons.

b) Give a short description of some other disease using a few phrases from

the text above.

IX. Correct the following statements, beginning each sentence with one of the

following phrases:

You're wrong. You're mistaken. I can't agree with you. Nothing of the kind. But ... (it is, they

don't, etc.). I don't think you're right. Of course not. Just the other way round. On the contrary.

Surely not! By no means!

Example:

— You never take your temperature when you аге ill.

— Oh, yes (of course), I do. I always take my temperature when I'm ill.

1. Sick people never stay in bed while they are ill. 2. You were laid up with-flu last week, I

believe. 3. It is not dangerous to take care of a person who has got a catching disease. 4. People often

feel sick and giddy when they are quite well. 5. We seldom sneeze and cough when we have a cold.

6. You never have a sore throat when you have tonsillitis. 7. She doesn't feel any pain in her heart

when she has a heart attack. 8. Children have swollen eyes when they have been laughing too much.

9. People need the services of the doctor when they are well, I think. 10. Probably you consult a

dentist when you have a stomach-ache.

X. Read the text. Summarize it in 5-6 sentences without using direct speech;

Hob sat in the doctor's waiting-room. On the chairs at the wall other patients were sitting.

They all looked sad except Hob who was reading an exciting story in a magazine. Just then the

doctor came in to say that he was ready to see the next person. Hob got up and went into the

consulting room.

Before Hob could say a word the doctor said, "Now what's the trouble? Sit down there and

we'll have a look at you. Unfasten your jacket and your shirt, please. I'll listen to your heart." Hob

tried to speak, but the doctor interrupted him and ordered him to say "ninety-nine". Hob said it.

"Now let me see your throat, open your mouth wide." The doctor had a good look and then he said,

"Well, there's nothing wrong with you." "I know there isn't," said Hob, "I just came to get a bottle of

medicine for my uncle."

(From Essential English for foreign students by С. Е. Eckersley, Lnd.. 1977)

XI. Write 10 sentences to go with each of the pictures on pp. 68, 71.

XII. Answer the following questions:

1. What are the symptoms of flu (tonsillitis, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, etc.)? 2. Who is

treated at the policlinic, and who is treated at the hospital? 3. What do you do when you fall ill? 4.

What does the doctor do when he comes to examine you? 5. What do you feel when you have flu? 6.

How does a sick person look? 7. How should we translate into Russian "He is ill" and "He has ill

manners"? 8. What catching diseases do you know? 9. Do people in this country get their pay when

they are ill?

ХIII. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Я, должно быть, схватил грипп. 2. Вам лучше обратиться к врачу. 3. Врач пощупал

мой пульс, прослушал сердце и легкие и измерил температуру. 4. Она не в состоянии

разговаривать, у нее ужасно болит зуб. 5. Я вся дрожу. Должно быть, я простудилась. 6. Я не

могу читать вслух, у меня болит горло. 7. Беспокоиться не о чем, его успешно

прооперировали. 8. Я, пожалуй, приму эти пилюли от головной боли. 9. Почему ты ходишь в

такую погоду без шляпы? Ты ведь недавно серьезно болел. У тебя могут быть осложнения. 10.

Вам сделали рентген? 11. Вот рецепт. По столовой ложке микстуры три раза в день. 12. Вы

послали за доктором? 13. У вас два больных зуба. Вам нужно обратиться к зубному врачу. 14.

Врач попросил пациента раздеться до пояса и выслушал его. 15. Кто пойдет в аптеку заказать

лекарство? 16. Если бы ты не следовала советам врача, ты бы не поправилась так скоро. 17. На

вашем месте я придерживалась бы диеты, у вас ведь не в порядке желудок. 18. Как жаль,

доктор забыл выписать мне лекарство от насморка. 19. Почему у вас одышка — у вас высокое

давление или что-нибудь с сердцем? 20. Ребенок болен скарлатиной. Придется ему дней

десять полежать в постели.

XTV. Make up stories and dialogues through mime19.

Have the students to prepare a mime and perform it twice (for tasks A and B).

The performed actions should be rather slow to allow the other students to tell the

story or speak for the mimes.

A. Describe the actions of the mimes using the Present Indefinite, Continuous

or Perfect tenses. (for one or two students)

B. Speak for each mime. (for two students)

19 The noun mimehas two meanings: 1. a performance without words (пантомима); 2. an actor in such a performance (мим).

С Tell the story in reported speech orally or in writing. (for one student)

Suggested topics and stages for actions:

1. At the Doctor's

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

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

c) The patient asks the doctor what's wrong with him. He seems to be worried.

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

2. At the Dentist's

a) A patient complains of a bad toothache.

b) The dentist asks him to sit down and examines his mouth. One of his teeth should be

pulled out.

c) The patient is afraid. He feels sick and giddy.

d) The dentist pulls out his tooth and shows it to the patient who brightens up and looks

happy.

3. At the Bedside

a) A boy complains of a sore throat.

b) His mother is worried. She takes his temperature, it's normal. His throat is all right

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

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

XV. Try your hand at teaching.

Find a picture on a medical subject and ask your "pupils" to describe it.

A. Preparation.a) Make up a list of new words (in spelling and transcription) that might be

needed to discuss it.

b) Write questions about the picture, using the phrases: in the picture, in the foreground

[background), in the right(left-) hand corner, to the right (left) of.

c) took up the words and phrases you may need to discuss the picture in class in "Classroom

English", Section V.

В. Work in Class. Show the picture to the members of your group; write the new words on

the blackboard, translate them (or explain their meaning) and make the students repeat them in