- •Indisposition
- •Idiomatic expressions
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Illness – disease
- •In the last five sentences three of the alternatives are correct and two of them are wrong. Choose the three best alternatives for each.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •8. Fill in the right words.
- •How the Body Fights Disease
- •Our Body and Our Health
- •1. Study the vocabulary given above each paragraph of the text. Read the paragraphs and note down the following points:
- •Our Body and Our Health
- •2. Body. Give names for the indicated parts of the head.
- •3. Body. Match each of the following parts of the body with the correct number in the picture below.
- •5. Body. Complete the sentences. The number of dashes is identical with the number of letters in the missing words.
- •6. Body. Crossword.
- •7. Body. Each of the ten words below is regularly used to describe an action or gesture made with a part of the body. Write which. In some cases more than one answer is possible.
- •8.Body. Choose the correct answer.
- •9. What’s the Russian for?
- •10. Body. Match the following parts of the body with the jumbled definitions on the right.
- •11.Body. Choose one of the possibilities that best completes the sentence.
- •12.Ideas for discussian:
- •At the doctor’s office
- •Imagine that you are a doctor. Try to diagnose these illnesses.
- •A home call
- •1. Read the dialogue and be ready to dramatise it.
- •1. Make up a dialogue on analogy using the vocabulary
- •Text d. General hospitals
- •First aid
- •1. As you read the text look for an answer to the following question: When should you go to the emergency room?
- •Car accident
- •Snake bite
- •Artificial respiration
- •3. Guided Conversation
- •What to do about flu what to do about flu
- •1. Read these sentences. Which do you think are true (t) or false (f)?
- •2.Discuss with your friend what can we do about flu
- •State Policy on Health Care services in Belarus Organization and management
- •Financing of health services
- •Access to services
- •2. What changes would you like to introduce in the National Health Care Services in Belarus? Discuss it with your partners.
1. Make up a dialogue on analogy using the vocabulary
Conditions/symptoms etc. which have developed recently.
SYMPTOM |
CAUSE |
finger is inflamed ankle’s swollen eyes hurt back is very painful have got a sore throat have got a temperature have got a stomachache have got diarrhea have got toothache feel sick |
cut myself tripped and fell reading too much sunbathing caught a bug went out in the rain ate too much ate something that disagreed with me lost a filling something upset me |
POSSIBLE DIAGNOSIS |
POSSIBLE CURE |
it’s infected sprained it it’s eye strain it’s sunburn it’s a throat infection caught a chill it’s indigestion it’s a tummy upset it’s a nerve mild food poisoning |
have a penicillin injection have/get it X-rayed get some eye-drops buy some lotion get some pastilles stay in bed take a stomach-powder take some tablets see a dentist see a doctor |
Conditions/symptoms etc., which have been apparent for some time.
can’t sleep have got a bad cough keep getting headaches |
very worried smoking too much hit my head |
it’s just nerves throat irritation mild concussion |
take some sleeping pills see a doctor/have it seen to take it easy |
Text d. General hospitals
Read the text and be ready to discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of private medicine.
General hospitals treat patients with all kinds of medical and surgical needs and are
concerned primarily with conditions likely to require treatment lasting for days, or, at most, a few weeks. There is a considerable trend towards day-care surgery in which patients are not detained overnight after their operations. Nearly all medium-size and large hospitals also have outpatient departments covering a wide range of specialties, to which patients are referred by general practitioners (GPs) most of the patients admitted to the hospital wards for surgical treatment are brought in after being seen at an out-patient clinic. Clinical staff works in out-patient departments as well as in wards: operating theatres, intensive care units, and other departments. Most medium-size hospitals also have an accident and emergency (A&E) or a casualty department and often a maternity department.
Staffing and facilities
General hospitals are staffed by consultants in the various medical, surgical, gynaecological, paediatric, and psychiatric disciplines and by their junior medical and nursing staff. In addition, there is an additional hierarchy on the administrative side concerned with general staff administration, catering, housekeeping, laundry, engineering, accounting, medical records, cleaning, finance, purchasing, stocktaking, and salaries. Clinical departments include a range of diagnostic facilities such as X-ray, computerized axial tomography, and ultrasound scanning, electro diagnostic facilities and pathology laboratories; pharmaceutical services, physiotherapy; social services and suites of operating rooms (theatres) with their ancillary services; for instrument sterilization, changing rooms, and stock rooms.
The largest general hospitals cover a wide range of specialties and usually have, in addition to those mentioned, a premature-baby unit, a psychiatric wing; full facilities for dental and facial surgery, plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery; a radiotherapy unit; MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanning; a renal dialysis unit; organ transplant facilities; an occupatorial therapy department; a physical medicine unit with physiotherapy gymnasium and therapeutic pool; a burns unit; a department of medical physics; and a lithotriptor unit for the noninvasive treatment of kidney stones and gallstones. Some very large general hospitals have a cyclotron for the production of artificial isotopes for PET scanning (position emission tomography)
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