- •Combined Language Skills Practice: a Handbook for Medical Students
- •Contents
- •Chapter I. Reading comprehension
- •Text 1. Exercise - a key to fitness
- •Text 2. Meningitis
- •Text 3. Living a long life
- •Text 5. What Is Bronchitis?
- •Text 6. Blood
- •Text 7. Mouth and Teeth
- •Text 8. How fluoride works
- •Chapter II. Use of english
- •1. Lexical Cloze Tasks
- •Oral cancer – risk factors
- •Old age and the brain
- •Oral hygiene
- •Wild treatments
- •2. Multiple Choice Tasks
- •Pneumonia
- •A Headache Martyr
- •What Is Appendicitis?
- •3. Word Formation Tasks
- •Respiratory System
- •Functions
- •Human Physiology
- •Dreaming
- •Malaria
- •Chapter III. Grammar
- •1. Grammar of Tenses and Verb Forms
- •An Anatomy Class
- •A Dental Clinic
- •Human Anatomy
- •The Development of Dentistry
- •E. Open the brackets using the correct verb form Why Do I Need to Wash My Hands?
- •Emotion Location
- •Your Ribs
- •Taking Care of Bones
- •I. Open the brackets using the correct verb form How Bones Grow
- •A Case Study
- •2. Grammar Tests
- •1 Underline the correct form of the verbs
- •2 Complete the conversation using the Present Simple or the Present Continuous. Use short forms (for example 'm, 're, 's, don't, etc.)
- •3 Write the questions to these answers
- •4. Read the case study and write answers in the same tense as the questions
- •1 Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences
- •2 Correct the mistakes in the sentences
- •3 Complete the text with the connectors below
- •1 Reorder the words to write sentences
- •2 Complete this gp's referral letter with the Past Simple or the Past Continuous form of the verbs in brackets
- •3 Write the answers Mr Nesbitt would give to these questions
- •1 Write the comparative and superlative forms of these adjectives
- •2 Read each sentence. If it is correct, write a tick (/). If there is a mistake, correct it
- •3 Complete these sentences with the comparative or superlative forms of the adjectives in exercise 1
- •1 Complete the questions
- •3 Complete the questions in the dialogue
- •1 Match the beginnings and ends of these sentences
- •3 Use these verbs with will, won't, or shall to complete the sentences. Use short form
- •1 Read each sentence. If it is correct, write a tick (). If there is a mistake, correct it
- •2 Complete the sentences with should / shouldn't and one of the verbs below
- •3 Write two pieces of advice for each of these problems. They can be negative or positive
- •1 Choose the correct expression to complete the sentences
- •2 Complete the answers to the questions using the information in brackets
- •1 Underline the correct form of the verb in each sentence
- •2 Match the beginnings and endings of these Zero Conditional sentences, and complete them with the verbs below in the correct form
- •3 Complete these First and Zero Conditional sentences with the verbs given in the correct form. They are not always given in the correct order
- •1 Read each sentence. If it is correct, tick (). If there is a mistake, correct it
- •2 Complete the sentences by choosing a, b, or с
- •3 Complete these sentences using the correct forms of the verbs in brackets
- •1 Reorder the words to write sentences
- •2 Underline the word or phrase that completes the sentence
- •3 Read each sentence. If it is correct, write a tick (). If there is a mistake, correct it
- •1 Put the words in the correct order
- •2 Complete the sentences
- •3 Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct tense using a future form
- •1 Underline the correct form of the verb in these sentences
- •2 Read each sentence. If it is correct, write a tick (). If there is a mistake, correct it
- •3 Use the Past Simple or the Present Perfect to complete the conversation between a nurse and a patient.
- •1 Complete the sentences using the Present Passive. Use short forms
- •2 Rewrite these Active sentences using the Past Passive
- •3 Complete the case history with the words below, using the Present or Past Passive or Active forms of the verbs below. Some verbs can be used more than once
- •1 Correct the mistake in each sentence
- •3 Complete the text using the Present Continuous or be going to form of the verbs in brackets. Use short forms
- •1 Reorder the words to write sentences. Add commas and full stops where necessary
- •2 Complete the sentences using the words below
- •3 Complete these sentences to describe your use or opinion of alternative medicine. In each sentence, use one of the words below.
- •1 Match the beginnings and ends of the sentences
- •2 Complete the text with used to,(be) used to, or (get) used to in the correct form. Nursing since the 1950s
- •3 Complete the sentences with get or got used to /used to/use to/didn't use to and the verbs below
- •Chapter IV. Listening comprehension
- •Part 1 Mr Gumley
- •Part 2 Mrs Emma Sharp
- •Part 3 Miss Grace Donaldson
- •Part 4 Mr Pritt
- •Part 5 Barry Scott
- •Part 6 Mrs Mary Lock
- •References
Dreaming
The first study of what goes on in our heads during dreaming has been completed, casting light on an 1 ______ of human 2 ______ that people have always found 3 ______. The research, reported in the journal Nature, opens up a 4 ______ new chapter in efforts to understand what we do with a 5 ______ of our lives. It supports the 6 _______ that dreams are formed by calling up images from a store of 7 ______ memories. Scientists find dreaming an enormous puzzle. Nerve cells of the brain 8 _______ with thousands of their neighbours, producing an 9 _______ amount of chatter. Now, however, 10 _______ are beginning to make sense of the brain`s activity. |
(1) ACTIVE (2) BE (3) MYSTERY (4) SIGNIFY (5) THREE (6) SUPPOSE (7) EMOTION (8)COMMUNICA- TION (9) BELIEVE (10) RESEARCH
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e. Use the words from the right column next to the text to form one word that fits the same numbered space in the text.
Malaria
Malaria is one of the most common 1______ diseases in the world. So far the only kind of its 2 _______ has been distributing mosquito nets and basic medicines. 3 ______ and doctors have been working on malaria vaccine for years. All the produced vaccines have not been 4 _______ . Research on the malaria vaccine arouses 5 _______ interest in countries where malaria is undoubtedly a most 6 _______ disease, causing 7 ______ loss of life and 8 ______ problems. Everybody is waiting for 9 ______ trials of a new medicine as future costs of malaria spreading are still 10 _______. |
(1) INFECT (2) PREVENT (3) SCIENCE (4) EFFECT (5) CONSIDER (6) DANGER (7) MASS (8) ECONOMY (9) SUCCESS (10)PREDICTABLE
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Chapter III. Grammar
1. Grammar of Tenses and Verb Forms
a. Open the brackets using the correct verb form
An Anatomy Class
In the practical Anatomy class medical students 1(study) the human body. The principal parts of the human body 2 (be) the head, the trunk and the extremities. We 3(speak) of the upper extremities (arms) and the lower extremities (legs).
The head 4 (consist) of two parts: the skull which 5 (contain) the brain, and the face which 6 (compose) of the forehead, the eyes, the nose, the mouth with the lips, the cheeks, the ears, and the chin.
The ear 7 (have) three principal parts: the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear. The head 8 (connect) with the trunk by the neck. We 8 (breathe) with the lungs. The heart 9 (contract) and 10 (make) about 60-80 beats per minute.
b. Open the brackets using the correct verb form
A Dental Clinic
There 1 (be) a lot of dental clinics, surgeries and laboratories in our country. Future dentists 2 (train) in medical institutes and academies all over the country. This medical career 3(become) extremely popular nowadays and every year more and more school graduates 4(enter) medical colleges to become dentists. Everybody 5(can receive) all kinds of dental service.
Every dental polyclinic 6 (consist) of three departments: the department of dental therapy, the department of dental surgery and orthopedic department. If a patient 7(have) some trouble with their teeth, he or she 8(consult) a dentist either in a state or in a private clinic. Private dental care 9(appear) at the beginning of 90th of the XX century. Since then it 10 (develop) rapidly giving a high quality treatment to its patients.
c. Open the brackets using the correct verb form