Exercises.

Ex.1. Answer the following questions:

1. When was Nostradamus born?

2. Where was he born?

3. What is known about his father’s ancestors?

4. What can you say about his childhood?

5. When did he begin to study medicine?

6. When did he receive a licence to practice the healing art?

7. Was he successful in treating victims of le carbon? Why?

8. When did he begin to acquire knowledge of prediction?

9. Were the mixtures he prescribed for his patients commonly practised at the time?

10. What did Nostradamus claim about one of his mixture?

11. Was Nostradamus a magician a seer or a charlatan? What do you think?

Ex.2. State to what parts of speech the following words belong:

Tradition, physicians, intelligent, ancestry, mathematics, study, wanderer, treatment, successful, probably, violet, during, unlikely, believe, headaches, patients, prescribe.

Ex.3. Find the pairs of synonyms and remember them:

Disease, to treat, success, bubonic, drug, for instance, virtue, malady, to cure, luck, for example, strength, pneumonic, eminent, prophet, renowned, seer, to look into the future.

Ex.4. Find the pairs of antonyms and remember them:

Likely, reduce, contemporary, ancient, unlikely, modern, ancestor, increase, success, failure.

Ex.5. Check up if you remember the following verbs:

To reach, to master, to send, to study, to receive, to practice, to term, to seem, to treat, to use, to survive, to compound, to powder, to harm, to tend, to reduce, to increase, to acquire.

Ex.6. Give the Past Simple Tenses of the following verbs:

To claim, to have, to believe, to cure, to spend, to study, to prescribe, to tear, to do, to be, to acquire, to owe, to seem, to oppose, to treat, to tend, to predict.

Ex.7. Form adverbs of the following words:

Like, unlike, bad, successful, certain, common, subsequent, probable.

Ex.8. Remember the following nouns:

Singular Plural

phenomenon phenomena

formula formulae

spectrum spectra

datum data

analysis analyses

basis bases

Ex.9. Open the brackets using the verbs in the correct forms:

1. In 1522 Nostradamus (to leave) Avignon and (to go) to Montpellier to study medicine.

2. He (to prescribe) different medicines every day.

3. Two years later he (to study) the problems of pneumonic plague.

4. We (use) some of his treatments in future.

5. Nostradamus (to live) many years ago in France.

Unit 5: 1. Perfect Tenses.

Remember the following words and word combinations:

1. chromatography [,krəumə’togrəfi] 11.pigment [‘pigment]

2. metabolism [mə’tæbəlizm] 12 precipitated [pri’sipiteitid]

3. to separate [‘sepəreit] 13.percolating [‘pə:kəleitiŋ]

4. mixture [‘mikst∫ə] 14.pefroleum [pi’trəuljəm]

5. rate [reit] 15.gradual [‘grædjuəl]

6. to achieve [ə’t∫i:v] 16.band [bænd]

7. rapidly [‘ræpidli] 17.to revive [ri’vaiv]

8. to regard [ri’ga:d] 18.plant [pla:nt]

9. available [ə’veiləbl] 19.acidic [ə’sidik]

10. technique [tek’ni:k] 20.basic[‘beisik]