Part III. Reading

Exercise 7: Before reading the text answer some questions:

1. What is a chemist’s shop?

2. Give your own definition of the term “chemist’s shop”. Compare your answer with “English-English Dictionary”.

3. In the dictionary find the definition of the terms: dispensary pharmacist, ointment, powder, tincture

Chemist’s shop active vocabulary of the text

chemist’s shop	[kemists ζop]	аптека
medical institution	[medikl institju:ζn]	медицинское учреждение
chemist’s stall	[kemistst sto: l]	аптечный киоск
chemist’s department	[kemists di pa:tment]	ручной отдел
prescription department	[priskripζn di pa:tment]	рецептурный отдел
wholesale department	[houl seildi pa:tment]	отдел оптовой реализации
stock-in-trade department	[stokin treidi pa:tment]	отдел запасов
booklet	[buklit]	брошюра
foreign make	[forin meik]	зарубежное производство
dispensary pharmacist	[dɪ'spens(ə)rɪ 'fɑ:məsist]	фармацевт
bulletin	[ bulitin]	бюллетень
counter	['kauntə]	стойка, прилавок
show-case	[ʃəu keɪs]	витрина
berry	['berɪ]	ягода
hot-water bottle	[hɔt'wɔ:tə bɔtl]	грелка
cotton wool	[kot(ə)nwul]	вата
mustard plaster	[mΛstæd pla:stə]	горчичник
ointment	[ointm nt]	мазь
drops		капли
immediately	[i mi:djətli]	немедленно
request	[ri kwest]	требование, просьба
tincture	[ ti ktζə]	настойка
powder	[paudə]	порошок
bench	[benζ]	лабораторный стол
requirement	[ri kwaiəment]	требование
drastic	[dræstik]	сильнодействующий
poisonous	[poizənəs]	ядовитый
to manage	[mənidз]	управлять

Exercise 8: Before reading the text explain some words: pharmacists, medicine, prescription (brain-storming).

Exercise 9: Read the text:

Chemist’s shop

A chemist’s shop is a medical institution in which you can have all the prescriptions made up and buy all the necessary things when you are ill. There are three types of chemist’s shops in our country at present: municipal, hospital, private. All of them are licensed. You can also buy some medicines at chemist’s stalls. The chemist’s shop consists of several departments: chemist’s, wholesale, stock-in-trade and prescription department.

Numerous glass showcases of the chemist’s department contain pills, tablets, infusions, extracts, packets of dried herbs and berries grouped according to their medicinal properties. On a small table in the corner of the room there are some special booklets and annotations with useful information about some latest medicines of Russian and foreign make. Besides dispensary pharmacists make up special bulletins about medicinal properties of the herbs available at the department and of the new kinds of mineral water discovered in different parts of our country. There are often different medicines for one and the same disease and patients often ask the chemist for advice, which of the medicines available is more effective. Besides medicines the chemist’s department provides patients with other necessary things such as thermometers, hot-water bottles, cotton wool, mustard plasters and so on. If a patient needs some medicines of special preparation he is recommended to go to the prescription department.

The prescription department provides medicines only by the doctor’s prescriptions. Ready-made medicines such as tablets, drops as well as injection solutions are usually given out immediately at a patient’s request. If a patient needs some ointment, a tincture or powders he can order them and will get the prepared medicines in some hours. Sometimes medicines are prepared in the presence of a patient having a prescription with the word “cito”.

Besides the chemist’s and prescription department the chemist’s shop has an assistant’s room. The room is furnished with benches, there are burners and tubes, flasks and measuring glasses, flasks with distilled water, etc. In this room medicines are prepared by assistants according to the requirements of the State Pharmacopoeia. Every dose of drastic and poisonous substances is accurately measured and medicines are prepared under the guidance of experienced pharmacists. All chemical substances are stored according to the special list. They are given out precisely weighed and registered.

A chemist’s shop is managed by a specialist with higher pharmaceutical education.

Summary: A chemist’s shop is a medical institution in which you can buy all the necessary things when you are ill.

Exercise 10: Answer the following questions:

1. What is a chemist’s shop?

2. What types of chemist’s shops do you know?

3. What departments does a chemist’s shop consist of?

4. What can you buy at the chemist’s department?

5. Which department provides medicines only by the doctor’s prescription?

6. When are medicines prepared in the presence of patients?

7. Where are medicines prepared at a chemist’s shop?

8. How is an assistant’s room furnished?

9. According to what requirements are medicines prepared?

10. How are poisonous and drastic substances used?

11. How are they stored?

12. Who managers a chemist’s shop?

Exercise 11: Look at the scheme and guess what kinds of chemists’ shops are there in our country.

Exercise 12: You know that many English words are polysemantic. Can you find equivalents to the following words:

A.

injection	мастерская
poisonous	упорный, терпеливый
hospital	денежные вложения
patient	отвратительный

B.

drastic alterations	заснуть
a marble tablet	горькая пилюля, тягостная необходимость
a bitter pill to swallow	найти решение
satisfactory solution	некоторая рисовка у.
drop asleep	замолвить за кого-л. словечко
He made a mistake of trying to extract further information from out director.	Лимонная кислота может быть извлечена из сока апельсинов, лимонов или грейпфрутов.
tincture of affectation	кусок мрамора
Citric acid can be extracted from the juice of oranges, lemons, or grapefruit.	Она опустила глаза и наклонила голову.
She dropped her eyes, and hung her head.	Он сделал ошибку, пытаясь выудить дополнительную информацию у нашего директора.
to drop a word in favour of smb	удовлетворительное решение
to find a solution	коренные преобразования