Vitamins: Their Uses

Vitamin A: Essential for growth. Protects against winter infections. Needed for healthy skin, nails and hair. Sources include liver, dairy produce and green vegetables.

Vitamin B: Helps nerves, digestion and skin. Deficiency can lead to insomnia, depression and lethargy. B6 can relieve menstrual tension. B12 prevents and cures pernicious anemia. Sources include wholewheat bread, brewer's yeast and liver.

Vitamin C: Maintains the body generally. Required for growth. Helps gums, teeth and bones. Plays an important role in healing processes. Sources include citrus fruit, green vegetables, potatoes and blackcurrants.

Vitamin D: Essential for growth and development of bones and teeth. Involved in the absorption of calcium and phosphorus. Sources include fish oil, dairy produce, as well as being activated by sunlight on the skin.

Vitamin E: Helps prevent and dissolve blood clots. Supplies oxygen to the body to give more endurance. Can help prevent blindness in very premature babies and possibly brain hemorrhaging. Sources include wheat germ, vegetable oil, corn, cereals and eggs.

Vitamin K: Is essential for proper blood clotting. Sources include spinach, leafy vegetables, tomatoes and liver.

Vitamins: Six Cooking Tips

• Don't leave fresh fruit and vegetables soaking, just wash them.

• Do prepare salads as near to serving time as possible.

• Don't thaw frozen vegetables before cooking.

• Do store fruit and vegetables in the refrigerator.

• Don't peel potatoes before baking or boiling.

□ Do remember that aluminium, enamel or stainless steel cooking pans are best for preserving the vitamin content of food.

Exercise 2. Write out the underlined words to your vocabulary and translate them. (Use the medical dictionary.)

Exercise 3. Make up a dialog about vitamins with your fellow student. Use the text from Exercise 1.

Exercise 4. Speak about every vitamin and its uses. (Look at the text "Vitamins: Their Uses".)

Exercise 5. Memorize pieces of advice from the text "Vitamins: Six Cooking Tips".

LESSON SIXTEEN

I	Control Test
TT	Grammar	1. Дієслово у Present Continuous (§54).
11		2. Способи перекладу слова one (§55).
		3. Годинник (§56).
	Suffixes	(n.) -cian
	Prefixes	un-, in-/im-/ir-/il-
III	Independent Work	Grammar Exercises

I. Control Test Variant 1

Exercise 1. Give the plural forms of the nouns.

Knife, foot, dress, plate, game, city, boy, man, box, heart, liver, doctor, child, body, fish.

Exercise 2. Translate the beginnings of the sentences into English.

1. Серце людини складається of four chambers.

2. Серцева перегородка ділить the heart into the left and right heart.

3. Артерії несуть the blood from the heart.

4. Між лівим передсердям and the ventricle there is the mitral valve.

5. Серце знаходиться between the lungs in the chest.

Exercise 3. Put all possible questions to the sentence.

My friend knows everything about this problem.

Exercise 4. Change Present Indefinite into Past Indefinite. Make all necessary changes.

1. I study at the medical school now.

2. He speaks English at today's lesson.

3. My mother likes my cake.

4. She puts her bag on the table.

Exercise 5. Answer the questions.

1. How does one take a pulse?

2. What must the nurse note when she takes the patient's pulse?