II. Grammar Exercises

Exercise 1. Put in the modal verbs can, may, must or their equivalents in the required form.

1. If you have a bad headache, you ... take some medicine. 2. The doctor ... perform your blood analysis to be sure of your diagnosis. 3. For what time ... I make the appointment with Dr. Smirnov? 4. A patient ... have a scalding foot bath if he has a bad cold. 5. ... the doctor... take your blood pressure when he examined you. 6. ... the doctor ... X-ray your chest during the last medical examination? 7. As my sister had caught a bad cold she ... stay in bed. 8. You ... follow the doctor's treatment if you want to be well again soon. 9. ... you cope with the task which was given to you by the teacher some days ago? 10. ... you tell me what subjects the first-year curriculum includes? 11. What ... I take to keep the fever down? 12. ... the students take notes of every lecture? 13. ... I feel your pulse? 14. What ... cause serious complications after influenza?

Exercise 2. You are examining your patient. Ask him to fulfill the following.

1. To strip to the waist. 2. To breathe deeply. 3. To lie down on the couch. 4. To show where he feels the pain. 5. To stand up. 6. To open his mouth. 7. To say "Aah". 8. To close his mouth. 9. To get dressed.

Exercise 3. You are giving your patient some instructions and pieces of advice. Put the verbs into the appropriate form.

1. To take the prescribed medicine (this mixture - for the cough; these tablets - for his headache, these drops - for heart trouble). 2. To apply cups (mustard plasters) every other day. 3. To gargle his throat. 4. To drink hot tea with raspberry jam. 5. To get his blood and urine tested. 6. To do his electrocardiogram. 7. To go to an ophthalmologist and check his eyesight. 8. To stay in bed during 2-3 days. 9. To visit the doctor after some days.

Exercise 4. You are a doctor. You examined the patient yesterday. How did you do it? Use sentences from Exercise 3.

Exercise 5. Read the dialogs. Change direct speech into indirect.

1

"Are you feeling well?" asks the doctor. "Let me see your tongue, please". "It's no use, Doctor," says the patient. "No tongue can tell how rotten I feel".

2

"I am taking a rest treatment." "Oh, what do you do?"

"I sit every day for three hours in the waiting room of a busy doctor."

3

Teacher: Have you found out the subject of Dr. Brown's talk yet? Student: Not yet. I'll be seeing him about it tomorrow morning. Teacher: Have you asked him what time you could go to his place? Student: Yes, he told me to come at eleven. He will be waiting for me.

4

Mother: Why are you shouting in here? Your brother has just gone to sleep. Please don't talk so loudly.

Son: Awfully sorry, Mam. How does he feel?

Mother: I don't think he's well yet. He hasn't got a temperature, but he doesn't want to eat anything.

Son: We won't be talking with my friend so loudly, Mam. We'll be playing chess in here.

III. Independent Work: Deficiency Diseases

Exercise 1. Read and translate the texts.

Night Blindness

Have you ever gone to a movie house during the daytime? Were you able to find your way around easily? Probably not. Chances are you had to wait a short time. Your eyes had to "adjust" to the dim light.

This short wait is normal. But some people have to wait a very long time. Their eyes do not adjust to dim light easily. These people suffer from night blindness. Night blindness is a deficiency disease. It is caused by a lack of vitamin A. Vitamin A is important in other ways too. It prevents and cures certain infections of the eyes, nose and throat.

The best source of vitamin A is milk. Carrots and liver are also good sources of vita­min A.