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At the Chemist's

When you are ill, you consult a doctor. He prescribes you treatment and writes out a prescription. To have all the prescriptions made up1 you have to go to the chemist's.

There are two departments in the chemist's: the department of medicines right away2 and the department where drugs have to be ordered or the prescription department.

At the chemist's shop you can buy medicines of all kinds: tablets, powders, pills, solutions, tinctures, suppositories, ointments, cough mixtures, sleeping draught, nasal drops, cod liver oil, syringes, ampules with different solutions, vitamins, different medicines for external and internal use.

You can also get hot-water bottles, medicine droppers, bandages, bottles of iodine, ice bags, sponges, tooth pastes and toothbrushers, soap, mustard plasters and adhesive plasters and many other things which are quite necessary for medical care and nursing.

Notes:

1 to have all prescriptions made up - отримати ліки, які призначив лікар

2 right away - відразу, негайно

Exercise 8. Make up lists of three forms of medicines: solid, soft and liquid; use a dictionary; remember Latin names.

Exercise 9. Make up sentences using the following word combinations.

  • to take a powder for...

  • to take a tablet three times a day

  • to take a pill after (during, before) meal

  • to put an ointment on ...

  • to keep suppositories in a cool place

  • to wash hands before using globules

  • to keep ampules in a dark place

  • to read doctor's instructions before giving a solution

  • to shake a bottle with a mixture before use

  • to take an infusion

  • to give a decoction four times a day before meal

  • to keep drops in a dark place

  • to take twenty drops of a tincture

  • to take a teaspoonful on an empty stomach

  • to take a tablespoonful of...

  • to give a prescription

  • to prescribe medicine (treatment)

Exercise 10. Read and act out the dialog.

Father: Doctor, when I came home, I found my little son asleep. At first that seemed normal, but when I entered the bathroom there was a bottle of my wife's sedative on the floor. I'm afraid the child took some of it.

Doctor: Do you know what kind of sedative1 it was?

Father: No, doctor. I only know it was one of sedatives. Here it is.

Doctor: Well, it is better to do stomach washing2. Nurse, have everything ready for stomach washing.

Notes:

1 sedative - заспокійливий засіб : washing - промивання

Exercise 11. Communicative situations.

  1. Describe the chemist's where you usually buy medicines.

  2. Make up a dialog between a customer (покупець) and a chemist.

  3. Give instructions for administration of any drugs.

4. You are not feeling quite well. You go to the chemist's and ask the chemist to give yousome tablets.

II. Grammar Exercises

Exercise 1. Name the parts of speech of the following words, translate them without the dictionary.

accelerate - accelerator - acceleration

combine - combination

medicine - medical - medication

grade - gradual - gradually

prescribe - prescription

effect - effective - effectiveness

Exercise 2. Give degrees of comparison of the following adjectives and adverbs.

Handsome, nice, wonderful, sad, green, white, difficult, good, slow, bad, grey, small, little, black, useful, delicate, careful, thin, large, well, quickly.

Exercise 3. Give antonyms of the following words and word combinations.

The best, late, the strongest, older, the most difficult, taller, the widest, more unexpressive, the unhappiest, heavier, the best-known, nearer, the most comfortable, worse.

Exercise 4. Translate into English.

1. До мене приїхав у гості дядько. Це один із найдальших родичів з маминого боку.

2. Він ходить до бібліотеки дуже часто, частіше, ніж ти думаєш. 3. Чим швидше тизробиш цю вправу, тим краще. 4. їхати поїздом найзручніше, але це найповільніший видтранспорту. 5. Це найкращі ліки від болю в горлі.

Exercise 5. Find sentences in the Present Perfect Continuous Tenses.

1. Let's go to this chemist's. 2. I have been preparing my home task since he came here.

3. A hot-water bag is the last thing you need. 4. The nurse has been making injections for twohours. 5. She usually buys these heart drops. 6. He hasn't been prescribing the tablets so long,has he?

Exercise 6. Make the sentences interrogative and negative.

1. We have been choosing the best drags since 10 o'clock. 2. My sister has been working in this chemist's for three years. 3. They have been talking about new nasal drops for an hour already. 4. We have been studying grammar rales for several years. 5. She has been boiling this decoction for two hours already.

Exercise 7. Complete the following sentences.

1. 1 have been boiling water with sugar ... 2. She has been doing exercises ... 3. We have been buying necessary medicine ... 4. My younger sister has been having her breakfast ... 5. I have been translating the instruction of these suppositories ....

Exercise 8. Translate into English.

  1. Лікар приймає хворих уже дві години.

  2. Мій друг лежить у ліжку вже кілька днів. У нього висока температура.

  3. Він приймає ці ліки від головного болю кілька місяців.

  4. Моя бабуся готує трав'яні чаї. Мабуть, вона варить трави з самого дитинства.

  5. Коли ви почали читати цей довідник? Як довго ви його читаєте?

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