TOPIC: ILLNESSES AND THEIR TREATMENT
TEXT A. A VICTIM TO ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN FATAL MALADIES
From "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment. I got down the book and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves and began to study diseases, generally. I forgot which was the first, and before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms", I was sure that I had got it.
I sat for a while frozen with horror; and then in despair Г again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever — read the symptoms — discovered that I had typhoid fever— began to get interested in my case, and so started alphabetically.
Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been bom with. I looked through the twenty-six letters, and the only disease I had not got was housemaid's knee.
I sat and thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view. Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals" if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head but I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as.far as ever it would go, and I shut one eye and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip, but I felt more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
I had walked into the reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a miserable wreck.
I went to my medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill. So I went straight up and saw him, and he said:
"Well, what's the matter with you?"
I said:
"I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is short and you might pass away before I had finished. But 1 will tell you what is not the matter with me. Everything else, however, I have got."
And I told him how I came to discover it all,
Then he opened me and looked down me, and took hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over the chest when I wasn't expecting it — a cowardly thing to do, I call it After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
I did not open it, I took it to the nearest chemist's, and handed it in. The man read it, and then handed it back. He said he didn't keep it.
I said:
"You are a chemist?"
He said:
"1 am a chemist. If I was a co-operative stores and family hotel combined, 1 might be able to oblige you."
I read the prescription. It ran:
"1 lb.16 beefsteak, with
1 pt.17 bitter beer
every six hours.
1 ten-mile walk every morning.
1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand."
I followed the directions with the happy result that my life was preserved and is still going on.
NOTES ON SYNONYMS
1. (See Note 1 on p. 18.) Synonyms may also differ by the degree or intensity of the phenomenon described or by certain additional implications conveyed by their meanings. E. g. malady describes a more dangerous illness than disease, sometimes a fatal one, whereas ailment mostly refers to a slight disorder. Malady implies a lasting, sometimes a chronic illness, whereas ailment is short and temporary. Illness is the most general word in the group (the synonymic dominant).
2. Synonyms may differ by their stylistic characteristics. E. g. chum is a colloquial synonym of Mend, to fancy sounds less formal than to imagine. To pass away is a bookish synonym of to die.
TEXT B. A VISIT TO THE DOCTOR
— Well, what's the matter with you, Mr. Walker?
— You'd better ask me what is not the matter with me, doctor. I seem to be suffering from all the illnesses imaginable: insomnia, headaches, backache, indigestion, constipation and pains in the stomach. To make things still worse, I've caught a cold, I've got a sore throat and I'm constantly sneezing and coughing. To crown it all, I had an accident the other day, hurt my right shoulder, leg and knee, and nearly broke my neck. If I take a long walk, I get short of breath. In fact, I feel more dead than alive.
— I'm sorry to hear that. Anyhow, I hope things aren't as bad as you imagine. Let me examine you. Your heart, chest and lungs seem to be all right. Now open your mouth and show me your tongue. Now breathe in deeply, through the nose... There doesn't seem to be anything radically wrong with you, but it's quite clear that you're run down, and if you don't take care of yourself, you may have a nervous breakdown and have to go to hospital. I advise you, first of all, to stop worrying. Take a long rest, have regular meals, keep to a diet of salads and fruit, and very little meat Keep off alcohol. If possible, give up smoking, at least for a time. Have this tonic made up and take two tablespoonfuls three times a day before meals. If you do this, I can promise you full recovery within two or three months.
— And if I don't, doctor?
— Then you'd better make your will, if you haven't yet done so.
— I see. Well, thank you, doctor. 1 shall have to think it over and decide which is the lesser evil: to follow your advice or prepare for a better world.
TEXT C. AT THE DENTISTS
Nell: Hello, is that you Bert? Nell here. I'm so glad I've found you in.
Bert: Hello, Nell. How's things?
N.: Fine. Listen, Bert. I'm bursting with news. Just imagine: yesterday I had the first real patient of my own.
В.: You don't say! Who was it?
N.: A nice old dear with a lot of teeth to be pulled out. It's such wonderful practice for me!
В.: Are you quite sure that some of his teeth couldn't be filled?
N.: None of them! I sent him to have his teeth X-rayed, so it's all right.
В.: How did you manage to get such a marvellous patient, I wonder?
N.: He came with a bad toothache. It had been bothering him for a day or two already.
В.: Were there no other dentists in the surgery?
N.: No, I was the only one. It was Sunday.
В.: Poor old thing! I hope you didn't try to pull out all his teeth at once, did you?
N.: Don't be silly. I just chose the easiest one to begin with.
В.: I see... And how did you get along?
N.: Wonderfully. I tested his blood pressure and gave him a couple of injections, though he said that my smile worked better than any injection.
В.: Oh, he did, did he? And he didn't have heart attack after the tooth was taken out? It would have been natural for an old man.
N.: No, he just felt a bit sick and giddy. I gave him с tonic and told him to stay in bed for a while and take his temperature.
В.: Perhaps I'd better drop in and check his heart? I'm on sick leave now and can do it at any time.
N.: You needn't. I'll ring him up and in case he's running a high temperature I'll let you know. But I do hope he won't. The day after tomorrow he's coming again,
В.: Are you sure he's not going to make an appointment with some other dentist?
N.: I don't think he will. When he was leaving he said he looked forward to having all his teeth pulled out and he would keep them all as souvenirs to remember me by.
В.: Well, I wish you good luck. Hope to hear from you soon. Bye for now, Nell.
N.: Good-bye, Bert. I'll let you know how things are going on.
Memory Work
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For every evil under the sun.
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There is a remedy, or there is none.
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If there be one, try to find it.
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If there be none, never mind it.
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ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY (П)
Words
appendicitis n insomnia n
attack (of smth.) n prescription n
case (of a disease) n recover (from a disease) υ
cholera n remedy n
complication n scarlet fever n
cough υ, n sneeze о
cure of υ sore (throat, eye, finger, etc.) adj
cure for n surgery n
die of υ symptom n
diphthertia n tonic n
disease n treat υ (smb. for a disease)
indigestion n treatment (for smth.) n
injection n typhoid fever n
Word Combinations
to feel smb.'s (one's) pulse to write out a prescription (for pills, etc.)
to go to a chemist's (drugstore) to follow the doctor's directions
to catch (a) cold to have an accident
to be short of breath to examine a patient (smb.'s throat etc.)
to breathe in deeply to consult (see) a doctor
to have a nervous breakdown to keep to a diet (of ...); to be on (go on), follow a diet
to have a prescription (medicine, mixture, tonic, etc.) made up
to take medicine (a spoonful of, etc.)
to be wrong with (one's heart, lungs, etc.); to have smth. wrong with
to be taken ill (to fall ill) with to be laid up with
to feel sick (and giddy) to fill smb.'s tooth
to have one's tooth filled, to have a filling
to pull (take) out a tooth = to have an extraction
to have one's tooth pulled out (taken out), extracted
to be (have one's teeth, chest, heart, etc.) X-rayed
to test smb.'s blood to have one's blood tested
to test smb.'s blood pressure to have one's blood pressure tested
to have, get (give) an injection (a needle)
to have a heart attack
to check smb.'s heart, lungs, etc.; to sound smb.'s heart, lungs, etc.
to be on sick leave; to get sick leave
to make an appointment with a doctor
Examples
He was taken to hospital and operated on (underwent an operation) for appendicitis.
After I've had some injections of tonic I feel quite cured of all my ailments.
The child is ill (laid up) with chicken pox (ветрянка). He'll soon recover if no complications set in.
Smallpox (оспа) is a catching (заразная) disease marked by fever and small red spots on the body and often leaves permanent marks.
I've been on sick leave for a fortnight already, but I don't feel any better so far.
The doctor diagnosed the illness as tuberculosis (t. b.).
A doctor who performs (carries out) operations is called a surgeon. Nowadays operations may be performed almost on any part of the body.
When people have pain in their teeth they go to a dentist to have the holes in their teeth filled (stopped). When necessary they may have their teeth taken (pulled) out.
People who are treated in health centres (policlinics) are called out-patients, those who stay in hospital are called inpatients.
Something is wrong with my legs: all my joints ache and when I bend my knee it hurts me.
The old man's sight is getting dim (слабеет), his eyes are sore, swollen and itching.
N o t e: Don't say "He wrote me a prescription out"; but "He wrote out a prescription for me".
EXERCISES
I. Study Text A and explain the meaning of the words and phrases listed below.
in an unthinking moment, idly turn the leaves, a fatal malady, premonitory symptoms, complication, to walk the hospitals, to time the pulse, all for nothing, the prescription ran, a family hotel, to follow the directions, his life was preserved.
II. a) Write English equivalents of the following words and phrases. Use them in sentences of your own:
1. застыв от ужаса; 2. заинтересоваться чём-л.; 3. интересный случай с медицинской точки зрения; 4. защищать диплом; 5. отнимазь у кого-л. время; 6. каждые шесть часов; 7. забивать голову непонятными вещами.
b) Write these words in English and transcribe them:
болезнь, симптом, отчаяние, тиф, алфавит, дифтерит, холера, талия, скарлатина, аптекарь.
c) Find in the text synonyms of the following words and phrases and explain how they differ:18
illness (4 words), friend, doctor, look quickly, imagine, do a favour to smb., die.
III. Write 10 questions to Text A covering the main points. Prepare to discuss the test using the words and phrases from Ex. П. IV. Study Texts В and С and translate these sentences into English:
1. Я страдаю от бессонницы. 2. Я все время чихаю и кашляю. 3. У меня болит горло. 4. 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.
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) 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 chorus; ask your questions.20
XVI. a) Give the idea of the text in English:
Сколько стоит аппендицит?
Бумажка была счетом за удаление у «мистера Стрельникова» аппендицита. Одному из нас с подобного рода бумагой пришлось столкнуться впервые, и было очень интересно читать: «Анализ крови — 25 долларов. Плата хирургу за операцию — 200 долларов. Анестезия — 35 долларов. Плата за каждый день пребывания в госпитале — 200 долларов. Плата за телевизор — 3 доллара в день». И так далее. Всего расставание с аппендицитом мистеру Стрельникову стоило 1112 долларов! Сюда входит плата врачу за постановку диагноза, за удаление ниток из шва...
Если бы мистер Стрельников пожелал продлить пребывание в госпитале до существующей у нас нормы (семь дней), бумажка счета стала бы вполовину длиннее. Как гражданин страны, где медицинское обслуживание бесплатное, денег из своего жалованья мистер Стрельников не платил. Уплатило за него государство. А в больнице он был столько, сколько бывают американцы, — три дня. (Стрельников В., Песков Б. Земля за океаном. М., 1975)
Prompts: bill, anaesthesia, to take out the stitch, twice longer.
b) Say what you know about the cost of health service in America, in Russia and in other countries nowadays. ХVII. a) Bead and translate the texts below:
1. In Great Britain primary health care is in the hands of family practitioners who work within the National Health Service. The family practitioner services are those given to patients by doctors, dentists, opticians and pharmacists of their own choice. Family doctors who are under contract to the National Health Service have an average about 2,250 patients. They provide the first diagnosis in the case of illness and either prescribe a suitable course of treatment or refer a patient to the more specialized services and hospital consultants.
A large proportion of the hospitals in the National Health Service were built in the nineteenth century; some trace their origin to much earlier charitable foundations, such as the famous St. Bartholomew's and St. Thomas' hospitals in London.
About 85 per cent of the cost of the health services is paid for through general taxation. The rest is met from the National Health Service contribution and from the charges for prescriptions, dental treatment, dentures and spectacles. Health authorities may raise funds from voluntary sources.
(See: "Britain 1983". Lnd., 1983)
2. Nobody pretends that the National Health Service in Britain is perfect. Many doctors complain that they waste hours filling in National Insurance forms, and that they have so many patients that they do not have enough time to look after any of them properly. Nurses complain that they are overworked and underpaid.
3. Many Health Service hospitals are old-fashioned and overcrowded, and, because of the shortage of beds, patients often have to wait a long time for operations. Rich people prefer to go to private doctors, or to see specialists in Harley Street, the famous "doctors" street in London. When these people are ill they go to a private nursing-home, for which they may pay as much as £ 100 a week. Alternatively, they may hire a private room in an ordinary hospital, for which they will pay about £ 10 a day.
(Musman R. Britain To-day. Lnd., 1974)
b) Write 10 questions about the facts mentioned in the texts that you find interesting and discuss them in class. XVIII. Find some jokes on a medical subject and tell them to your fellow-students. XIX. a) Give а very short description of each picture in the Present Tense. Use prompt words and phrases listed in the Note. b) Make up a story about the pictures in the Past Tense c) Find a short title to the story.
Note: сточная труба — sewer; носилки - stretcher; санитарная машина — ambulance; санитар - ambulance man; операционная operating-room; гипсовая повязка — plaster-bandage.
XX. Film "Mr.Brown's Holiday". Dilm segment 2 "Miss Peggy and the Pussy Cays" (Canterbury), a) Watch and listen, b) Do the exercises from the guide to the film.
STUDIES OF WRITTEN ENGLISH
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This time you will learn more about the smallest thought units that build up writing, beginning with a paragraph and how they work within the paragraph.
Key-words are main words in the passage that help to emphasize the main point and understand the subject you are writing about. That is why key-words are the first elements to choose when setting your mind on writing on a certain subject and there are different ways to use them in a paragraph: repeating them, using synonyms, bringing them in close semantic relation.
E. g. "He read the letter slowly and carefully. It was not the kind of case he wanted, it was not the kind of case he had promised himself. It was not in any sense an important case..." (From "The Nemean Lion" by A. Christie). Hercule Poirot, the famous detective of A. Christie's had been dreaming of an unusual case. That one about the kidnapping of a dog was a disappointment. It was not a proper case for him.
The central thought of the paragraph is emphasized by repeating the key-word, otherwise echo-word.
Assignments:
1. Go over the test "A Day's Wait" and pick out the key-words and phrases that indicate the topic: of illness and treatment. Arrange them into three groups according to the ways that are commonly used to point out the central thought. Which is the largest group and why?
2. Prepare a list of key-words end phrases before writing a paragraph: a) describing how the poor boy looked before the doctor саше; b) telling a story of his recovery; c) arguing about the turning point in his illness; d) explaining the difference between miles and kilometers, between the Fahrenheit thermometer and the Centigrade thermometer.
LABORATORY EXERCISES (II)
1. a) listen to the text "A Victim to One Hundred and Seven Fatal Maladies", mark the stresses and tunes, b) Repeat the test following; the model. 2. Listen to the dialogue "A Visit to the Doctor". Repeat the text in the interval and record your version. Compare your version with the original and correct your mistakes. 3. Respond to the following suggestions. Begin your sentences with "Hadn't we (he) better.."? 4. Extend the statements. Begin your sentences with "It's time you (he, etc.)" + a verb in the Past Subjunctive. 5. Write a dictation. Check the spelling using a dictionary. 6. Translate the given sentences into English. Check them with the key. 7. Listen to the text "Doctor Sally" or some other text on the topic. Get ready to act it out in class.
CURIOSITY QUIZ FOR EAGERS
Crossword Puzzle
Across
1. Stop a hole in a tooth with cement, etc. 3. Seize something with the teeth (also cause a sharp pain). 11. Fill a hole in a tooth with cement, etc. 13. Fibers (волокна) connecting the brain with all other parts of the body and carrying feelings to the brain. 14. Let out the air suddenly through the nose and the mouth (usu. when having a cold). 18. An instrument for measuring temperature. 19. A kind of medicine having good effects on the body. 23. The middle joint of the leg where the leg bends. 25. A hollow in the lungs (каверна). 27. A person who practises medicine and treats people. 28. The drink made by pouring boiling water on dried leaves bearing the same name, often used as a tonic. 29. A coloured liquid used for writing with a pen. 30. Take one's clothes off. 31. Come into two or more parts; crack a bone, joint.
Down
2. Breathing organs found in man and animal. 3. Take air into the body and send it out. 4. Exist. 5. The degree of heat or cold in the air, water, body, etc. 6. Be still, relax after work, efforts, etc. 7. Small spots (red or pink) close together on the skin (usu. a symptom of a disease). 8. Difficulty in digesting food. 9. Be aware through the senses. 10. A catching disease marked by fever and small spots that cover the whole body (common among children). 12. Give medical care to people in order to cure them. 15. A high temperature. 16. The red liquid in the body. 17. The regular beating of the arteries as the blood is forced along them. 20. An open sore (язва, нарыв) on internal organs. 21. A special choice of food ordered by a doctor. 22. Ill, unwell. 24. A person specially trained to look after sick people. 26. A short sleep. 27. Not clearly seen.
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