II. Grammar Exercises

Exercise 1. Write affirmative or negative sentences. Use am/am not; is/isn't; are/

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1) (Paris/the capital of France)	Paris is the capital of France.
2) ([/interested in football)	I'm not interested in football.
3) (I/hungry)	I
4) (it/warm today)	It
5) (Rome/in Spain)	Rome
6) (I/afraid of dogs)	I
7) (my hands/cold)	My
8) (Canada/a very big country)
9) (the Amazon/in Africa)
10) (diamonds/cheap)
11) (motor-racing/a dangerous sport)
12) (cats/big animals)

Exercise 2. Open the brackets and put the personal pronouns in the appropriate form.

1. This medicine will give (they) an instant relief. 2. The doctor prescribed (he) a proper treatment. 3. Do you know (we) district doctor? - Yes, I know (she). We got acquainted with (she) when I was on duty at the in-patient department. 4. This medical examination will take (I) some hours. The doctors will have to examine (I) thoroughly. 5. A young doctor asked (he) to strip to the waist and listened to (he) heart and lungs. 6. You must be out in the open air as much as possible: fresh air is useful for (you).

Exercise 3. Add sentences using the appropriate modal verbs or their equivalents (see the Model).

Model: It was late, we (to go) home. - As it was late, we had to go home.

1. As my friend is ill, I (to go and see) her. 2. We didn't add nitric acid as the reagent no affect) the results. 3. My friend works at a research institute and soon (to conduct) his investigations in biological chemistry. 4. It is cold today, you (to put on) your winter clothes. 5. Last summer when we had practice at the botanical station we (to collect) different parts of medicinal plants. 6. You (to describe) chemical properties of these compounds.

Exercise 4. Give antonyms of these words and word combinations.

To graduate from college, to come into the room, ill, to fall ill with, easy, to be in a good -rendition, his hands and face were dry, his pulse was slow, to continue the process, slight pain, !ight food, to excite, to feel rotten, to be indoors all day long, an out-patient department, slow „'lief, it makes the pain stronger, to put on a gown.

Exercise 5. Change the following sentences from the active voice into the passive \ oice.

1. She is rubbing in a healing ointment to relieve pain and skin irritation. 2. The nurse was _r.ving a patient an injection of camphor at 8 p.m. yesterday. 3. The students are taking notes of the lecture now. 4. The chemist was marking bottles of poisonous drugs. 5. The doctor is taking the patient's blood pressure now. 6. The therapeutists were questioning their patients thoroughly. 7. The doctors are treating me at our out-patient department. 8. My mother was having a scalding foot bath at 10 p.m. 9. Doctor X. is seeing patients in Room 17. 10. Our district doctor was making calls when I came to the polyclinic. 11. We are ordering drugs for intravenous injections at this chemist's. 12. Those patients were following a strict diet. 13. She is making the daily round of the district now. 14. The chemist is giving me a bottle of mixture. 15. The overdosage of this drug was causing an untoward reaction. 16. The doctor is checking the patient's eyesight.

Exercise 6. Make up dialogs on the following topics using the given words and word combinations.

1) A doctor is questioning a patient about his health:

trouble, to complain of, to suffer from, occupation, address, age, to feel pain in.

2) A nurse is carrying out doctor's prescriptions:

to give an injection of to take smb's temperature, to apply a mustard plaster to, to cup, to put a hot water bottle on smb s feet.

3) A doctor is examining a patient at home:

to put on a gown, to wash hands, to strip to the waist, to apply a stethoscope to, to listen to the heart, to palpate the abdomen, to feel smb s pulse.

UNIT TWO

I	Speaking	Chemistry, Matter and Life
II	Grammar	Revision