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Task 1 Review “Modal Verbs”:

• There are several modal verbs in English such as can, may, must, ought, which are used to express ability, possibility, permission or necessity of doing some action.

• They have only some finite forms and have no infinitive, particles or gerund; therefore they cannot be used in any compound tenses.

• They have no ending –s in the third person singular Present Indefinite.

• After the verbs can, may and must the Infinitive is used without to, after ought with to.

• The verbs shall, will, should, would are also used in some cases as modal verbs.

Task 2 Write down the following sentences in the affirmative form:

1 Must the students work during the whole term?

2 He could not enter the Institute last year.

3 Can he become a good therapeutist?

4 May this remedy do you harm?

Task 3 Review “General Questions and Special Questions”.

Task 4 Read the sentence and analyze the questions to it:

My father reads newspapers at home in the evening.

1. Does my father read newspapers at home in the evening?

2. What does my father read at home in the evening?

3. Where does my father read newspapers in the evening?

4. When does my father read newspapers at home?

Task 5 Fill in the blank with the proper question word:

1 … do you usually read newspapers in the evening? (when? where?)

2 … is on the table? (who? what?)

3 He works at the hospital. … is he? (who? what?)

4 … sister is she? (which? whose?)

5 … has a heart disease? (who? what?)

6 … month is July? (which? whose?)

Task 6 Write down questions to the sentence:

My friend carried out a valuable experiment at the laboratory last week.

Task 7 Read the text. Find the sentences with modal verbs and translate them. Write down the terms with the same root of “possible”, “difficult”, “to know” and translate them. What is Prof. Konchalovskiy’s opinion of a doctor’s profession?

Learn the words of Hippocrates Oath by heart.

Our Future Profession

In Ukraine hundreds of thousands of young people study at different medical institutes. They study numerous theoretical and special subjects. They have practical training during which they do the work of nurses and assistant doctors. Such a course of studies helps them to gain much knowledge of medicine, which will give them the possibility to diagnose different diseases and treat people.

But medical students must remember that it is not easy to be a good doctor. A good doctor must have not only deep knowledge of a particular field of medicine such as surgery or therapy. He must love people and have a kind heart. He must give all his knowledge, all his abilities, all his talent, and all his time to people, to the protection of their health.

One of the prominent therapeutists Prof. Konchalovsky considers that a person may be a poor writer, he may be a bad painter or an actor but a man cannot and must not be a bad doctor.

Medical students must understand well all the difficulties of their future profession. They must remember that often it will be difficult to diagnose a disease, sometimes it will be even more difficult to cure it. But a good doctor will always do his best to gain his patient’s confidence. And the confidence of a patient in his doctor is a “valuable remedy”.

Did you hear about Hippocrates Oath before you entered the Institute? What does it read? It reads, “I shall enter any house for the good of the patient . I shall not do my patient any harm” – these are the words from Hippocrates Oath. And they must be not only words for medical students. They must become the motto of their life.

Medical students must remember that to treat patients is a great art but not an ordinary trade. It is one of the professions which requires a real calling for it.

1 to do one’s best – робити все можливе

2 to gain confidence – завоювати довіру

3 to make (take) oath – давати клятву

4 calling – покликання