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Mini projects

Dramatize the situations.

1. You are visited by a doctor. He doesn’t like your symptoms and tells you not to get up until your temperature goes down. He listens to heart and takes your blood pressure. Then he writes out some prescriptions and promises to return next day.

The moment the doctor leaves you make an attempt to get up, though you are aching all over. You say that you can’t bear lying in bed without anything to do.

2. You’re 45, a housewife, have 3 children. You came to consult a doctor. You get a pain in your stomach after meals. Fried food seems to be the worst.

3. You are a student of 19. you have constant headaches. Your headache is worse in the evening. You came to consult a doctor.

4. Mary was on duty in hospital. She felt that something was wrong with her. By 8.30 she felt awful, her temperature was very high. Another nurse noticed it and asked what the matter was and called the doctor.

Topics for oral composition

An accident you witnessed

A visit to a throat (nerve, lung) specialist

Coming back to the University after being ill

The way you were treated for flu

At the hospital

The system of Public health in Russia

The problem “Health and sport”

Test yourself 6

1. Give Russian equivalents to the following:

  • In a sling

  • To dress a wound

  • To undergo an operation

  • Swollen fingers

  • To be laid up in a hospital

  • A coated tongue

  • Free medical service

  • The rate of mortality

  • Medical equipment

  • Disease prevention

  • To gargle one’s throat

  • To have an X-ray taken

  • To take a deep breath

  • To affect one’s eyesight

  • To go on crutches

2. Medical terms

Match these sentences with the problems:

Toothache, mosquito bites, sunburn, short sightedness, a cut finger, bachache, food poisoning, a cold

  1. I think I did playing tennis.

  2. I’ve got a sore throat and splitting headache.

  3. I think it was the fish.

  4. Open wide. I’m just going to give you an injection.

  5. I knew I should have used suncream.

  6. How many fingers am I holding up?

  7. There were lots of them in my room last night.

  8. I was just slicing a tomato.

3. At the chemist

Put the lines in order to make two conversations.

ٱ Can I help you?

ٱ Thank. I’ll keep an eye on him.

ٱ I won’t, don’t worry.

ٱ You could try camomile lotion, or some aloe vera gel – that’s very soothing.

ٱ Fine. If he starts to feel sick, take him to the doctor.

ٱ The lemon drink sounds good – I’ll take the large size.

ٱ Can I help you?

ٱ Yes, I think I’ve got flu.

ٱ I’ll take the gel, please.

ٱ Oh dear! Well, you could try aspirin, or may be this hot lemon drink with paracetamol.

ٱ Yes, I need something for my son. He’s got very bad sunburn.

ٱ And you should stay in bed – definitely don’t go to work.

4. Read the text. Translate the words and phrases in brackets.

There is nothing more unpleasant than ( заболеть) when you are away from home. If than happens do you (пойти на прием к врачу) or send for him at once? He will come and (прослушать пульс, измерить температуру, прослушать легкие, осмотреть) you thouroughly. He will (прописать диету) for you and tell you what to eat, and what not to eat, and he will probably advise you to give up drinking coffee, or tea, or both, and to smoke less.

If you want some (лекарство) he will give you (рецепт) that you can get made up in (аптека). Going to the chemist’s is rather an adventure in a goreign town. Chemist shops, these days, are wonderful places. Besides medicines and all kinds of (таблетки и мази) you can get all sorts of other things there as well, such as soaps, brushes, combs, bottles of every shape and size containing scent, (полоскание, микстура от кашля) and what not. You can buy tooth –pastes, tooth-brushes and a hundred and one other things required by man, woman or child.