X. Agree or disagree with the following statements:

1. The eye is the sense organ of hearing.

2. You see with your ears.

3. The eye is made up of only one part: retina.

4. Pigment gives the eyelid its color.

5. The pupil will never change.

6. The eyelid isn’t and important part of the eye.

7. The iris is the part of the eye that receives the image and focuses the light.

8. The image on the retina is upside down.

9. The ears change the message into a right-side-up picture.

10. The only one eye problem is being farsighted.

Text 8 the sense of touch

I. Read and learn the following words

● touch [tt∫] прикосновение ● sensitive [′sensıtıv] чувствительный ● skin [skın] кожа ● pleasant [pleznt] приятный ● pain [peın] боль ● pressure [′pre∫ə] давление ● injure [′ındʒə] наносить травму ● puzzle [pzl] загадка ● shooting [∫u:tıŋ] стреляющая (боль) ● scalding [sk:ldıŋ] жгучая ● splitting [′splıtıŋ] мучительная ● throbbing [θrəbıŋ] пульсирующая ● cramping [krəmpıŋ] спазматичная ● sharp [∫a:p] острая ● dull [dl] тупая ● moderate [′mdərıt] умеренный ● fear [fıə] страх ● joint [dʒınt] сустав ● scrape [skreıp] царапина ● to relay [rı′leı] передавать ● spinal cord [spaın k:d] спинной мозг ● reflex [′rı:fleks] рефлекс ● remove [rı′mu:v] снимать, удалять ● to adapt [ə′dpt] адаптироваться ● intense [ın′tens] интенсивная, острая ● fortunate [f:′t∫ənıt] к счастью.

II. Match the words and their definitions

dull	the feeling that you have in your body when you have been hurt
sharp	feeling of a series of regular painful movements
shooting	not very severe, but continuous
scalding	to harm yourself or smb else physically
splitting	to move suddenly and quickly and be very sharp
throbbing	very strong and sudden, often like being cut or wounded
cramping	pain that you feel when you burn your body with very hot liquid
pain	a very bad pain in any organ
injure	a sudden pain that you get when the muscles in a particular part of your body tighten, usually caused by cold or too much exercise

III. Write the derivatives of the following words:

pain, injure, pleasant, sharp, intense, puzzle

IV. Give the synonyms to the following words.

Pain, touch, sensitive, puzzle, intense, pleasant, sharp, dull, moderate

enigma, acute, calm, severe, stroke, ache, charming, monotonous, touchy

V. Give the comparative and superlative of the following adjectives:

sensitive, dull, pleasant, sharp, moderate, intense, important

VI. Give the Russian equivalents to the following words and phrases:

relay their messages, the spinal cord, sensory nerves, unpleasant feelings, let you know, description of pain is varied, shooting pain, scalding pain, splitting pain, throbbing pain, cramping pain, ethical considerations, mild pain stimuli, moderate cold, physiological component, subjective component, the source of pain, immediately.

VII. Read the text and find the answer to the question what is the job of the sensory nerves in the skin?