Lesson 1

A. What are your symptoms?

B. What do doctors do?

C. What’s diagnosis?

D.What does the doctor prescribe?

E. What might the doctor ask you?

Exercises:

1. Match the diseases with their symptoms:

1. What does the doctor or nurse use the following things for?

Example: Stethoscope – For listening to a patient’s chest.

1. Look at statements (a) to (h) in D above. Which do you think the doctor said to each of the following patients?

1. Complete the following table:

Noun

Adjective

Verb

1. What medical problems might you have if…

1. You eat too fast?

2. You smoke a lot?

3. You play football?

4. You go skiing?

5. You stay too long in the sun?

6. You eat food you are allergic to?

7. You run unusually fast for a bus?

8. A mosquito bites you?

9. You get wet on a cold day?

10. You think you’re ill all the time?

1. Think of some of the illnesses you (or members of your family or friends) have had. What were the symptoms and what did the doctor prescribe?

1. Match adjectives (1-10) with nouns (a-j) to make expressions. Make up sentences with these phrases.

1. poor a) disease
2. infectious b) cancer
3. sore c) lifestyle
4. blood d) disease
5. lung e) insurance
6. unhealthy f) pressure
7. mental g) throat
8. nervous h) health
9. fatal i) breakdown
10. health j) illness

1. Match verbs (1-10) with expressions (a-j) to make phrases. Match them with medical specialties.

• A GP (general practitioner)
• A nurse
• A surgeon
• A dentist

1. take a) on you
2. listen to b) your tooth
3. examine c) you against a disease
4. operate d) your arm in plaster
5. prescribe e) your arm
6. vaccinate f) your tooth
7. put g) your temperature/pulse/blood pressure
8. X-ray h) medicines
9. take out i) you
10. fill j) your chest

1. Match methods of treatment (1-8) with the doctor’s recommendations (a-h).

Health

When you are ill, you call a doctor, and he examines you and diagnoses the illness. When you have a headache, a stomach ache, a sore throat, a cold, or a pain in some parts of the body, you call a doctor. He takes your temperature and your pulse. He examines your heart, your lungs, your stomach or the part where you have pain, and tells you what the matter is with you. The doctor prescribes medicine, and gives you a prescription, which you take to the chemist’s, who makes up the medicine.

If you follow the doctor’s orders, you get better; if you disobey the doctor, you may get worse. If you have a temperature, you must stay in bed and take the medicine he prescribes. If you cannot get better at home you must go to hospital.

If you are too ill to walk, you go to hospital in the ambulance. After illness you can go to a sanatorium until you are strong again.

Medicine & Health.

If your health is good, you are always in a good mood. You have a sound mind in a solid body, as an Old Latin saying goes. The profession of a doctor is one of the most noble, respected and needed in the world, as we turn to a doctor when we fall ill or suffer from pain or some disorder in our body and soul. There is nothing more unpleasant than being ill. If you are running a temperature, have a splitting headache, feel dizzy or cough you go and see a doctor or send for him at once. She or he will come and feel your pulse, take your temperature, listen to you heart, test your lungs, measure your blood pressure, etc. Certainly, he or she will prescribe which you can get made up at chemists. At chemists shop you can get different kinds of medicines: pills, tablets, ointments and many other things. I remember one of my most serious illnesses. It was four years ago. Illness started unexpectedly. Early in the morning I woke up and felt dizzy and feverish. I had a splitting headache and terrible cough. My nose was running, I was sneezing all the time. I could hardly recognize my own voice. Besides I was running a high temperature. The doctor sounded my lungs, felt my pulse, examined the throat. I had pneumonia and I was to be taken to the hospital. I had to stay for a month there.

At the Doctor’s(Active vocabulary)

1. health [helθ] здоровье

2. headache [ˊhedeık] головная боль

3. heartache [ˊhɑ:teık] боль в сердце

4. toothache [ˊtu:θeık] зубная боль

5. backache боль в спине или в пояснице

6. earache боль в ухе

7. bad pain сильная боль

8. stomach желудок; живот

9. to complain [kəmˊpleın] of жаловаться на

10. sore throat [sͻ:ˊθraut] боль в горле

11. cough [kᴅf] кашель

12. to run a high temperature иметь высокую температуру

13. bad cold in one’s head сильная простуда

14. to suffer from страдать от

15. blood pressure кровяное давление

16. to consult a doctor обратиться к врачу

17. to examine осмотреть

18. to feel one’s pulse проверить пульс

19. to test one’s blood pressure измерить кровяное давление

20. to take one’s temperature измерить температуру

21. to sound one’s heart and lungsпрослушать сердце и легкие

22. to test one’s eyesпроверить зрение

23. to check one’s teethпроверить зубы

24. to have one’s chest X-rayed сделать рентген грудной клетки

25. to prescribe прописать (лечение), выписать (рецепт)

26. treatment лечение

27. pill пилюля

28. tablet таблетка

29. medicine лекарство

30. at the chemist’s в аптеке

31. complication осложнение

32. to follow one’s recommendations следовать рекомендациям

33. weaknessслабость

34. insomnia бессонница

35. memory loss потеря памяти

36. liver печень

37. patient пациент

38. to cure излечивать

39. diseaseболезнь

40. to have a good restхорошо отдохнуть

41. to be wellхорошо себя чувствовать

42. to diagnose the illnessдиагностировать болезнь

43. ambulanceскорая помощь