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III. Post-reading activities

1. Answer the following questions.

  1. What is the main task of preventive medicine?

  2. What are common-sense ways of reducing any disease?

  3. How can we reduce the risk of common colds?

  4. When is inoculation recommended?

  5. What are the first lines of defense against backaches?

  6. Name the ways to prevent heart attack.

  7. Is there a guaranteed way to prevent pneumonia?

h) How can we avoid pneumonia?

i) Is it necessary to isolate the patient with pneumonia? Why?

j) Is there a danger of transmitting AIDS from mother to unborn child in the mother's uterus?

2. Match the endings and beginnings to form sentences.

1. Inoculation against particular types of viruses is recommended in special cases ...

  1. The AIDS can be transmitted from ...

  2. To prevent heart attack you have to ...

  1. Workers who are sedentary for most of the day at a desk should be sure that...

  2. In fact, all of us carry the pneumococcal in our noses and throats, but we rarely ...

  3. For most people getting a proper amount of sleep, eating, trying to keep emotional tensions under control ...

  1. mother to unborn child.

  2. have the constellation of circumstances that leads to the infection.

  3. for pregnant women, for the elderly, and for those people who have chronic lung diseases.

  4. the chair they sit in provides firm support.

  5. do exercise regularly, count calories, control high B.P.

  6. can increase resistance to colds.

3. Complete the sentences according to the information of the text.

  • There is not yet general agreement on the effectiveness of taking ... at the first sign of a cold.

  • Flu shots are effective against....

  • Anyone should make a habit of ... so that the spine doesn't always get pulled in one direction.

  • To prevent heart attack eat less... .

  • Pneumonia is not really a contagious illness except....

  • To prevent AIDS you must forgo donations of....

  • Avoid or postpone pregnancy if ....

4. Comment upon the proverb.

  1. Read the proverb: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away ".

  2. Translate it. Do you know any Ukrainian equivalents?

  3. Do you agree with its meaning?

  4. Discuss it in groups.

IV. Speaking

1. Read the quotations below.

Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia

(N. Bonaparte)

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease, and prolong life —

the need of a physician.

(William J. Maya)

  1. Express your ideas about them.

  2. Comment upon each quotation.

4. Complete the sentence:

These quotations are very useful because they will help me ...

  • to understand life

  • to nurse ill people

  • to prevent illnesses

  • to control myself

  • to view good health

  • to keep fit

  • to be in good health

  • to keep on a diet

  • to give up smoking

  • to strengthen the heart

  • to do morning exercises

  • to rest in time

41. Infectious diseases.

Інфекційні захворювання.

I. Lead-in

1. The suffixes in the following list are used to form nouns that refer to an activity, a process, a state or a condition. Look at the list of nouns formed from them. Fill in the noun, verb, or adjective from which they have been formed in the space provided. The first one has been done for you.

Suffix

Verb/noun/adjective

Noun formed

-age

drain

drainage

-ance

assistance

-су

malignancy

-dom

wisdom

-ence

interference

-hood

childhood

-ion

examination

-ism

alcoholism

-ness

illness

-ship

apprenticeship