1. Read and translate the text. Copy out the phrases and words in bold into your vocabularies and learn them by heart
A VISIT TO
A DOCTOR
Is there anything more important
than health? I don't think so. "Health
is the greatest wealth," wise people say. You can't be good at your studies or work well
when you are ill.
If you have a headache, heartache, toothache, backache, earache or bad pain in the stomach, if you complain of a sore throat or a bad
cough, if you run a high temperature
and have a bad cold in your head, or if you suffer from high or low blood pressure, I think you should
consult a doctor. The doctor will examine
your throat, feel your pulse, test
your blood pressure, take your
temperature, sound your heart and
lungs, test your eyes, check your teeth or have your chest X-rayed.
After that he will prescribe some treatment, pills,
tablets or some other medicine which we can buy at the chemist's. He will
recommend you to stay in bed for some time, because there might be serious complications. The only thing you have to do is to follow his recommendations.
Speaking about doctors'
recommendations, I can't help telling (can`t help doing smth. – Не могу не рассказать) you one funny story.
An old gentleman came to see the
doctor. The man was very ill. He complained of weakness, insomnia, memory loss and serious problems with his
heart, lungs and liver. The doctor
examined the patient and said that no medicine could cure his disease.
Do you want to know what the
doctor's advice was?
He told his patient to go to a
quiet place for a month and have a good rest. He also advised him to eat a lot of meat, drink two glasses of red wine
every day and take long walks. In
other words, the doctor recommended him to follow the rule: "Eat at pleasure, drink with measure and
enjoy life as it is. The doctor also said that if the man wanted to be well
again, he shouldn't smoke more than one cigarette a day.
A month later the gentleman came
into the doctor's office. He looked cheerful and happy. He thanked the doctor
and said that he had never felt a healthier man. "But you know, doctor," he said, "it's not easy
to begin smoking at my age."
2. The words for dictation
a knee
an ankle
a wrist
an elbow
chickenpox
to heal
to sprain one`s wrist/ankle
to catch (a) cold
to cough
to cough one`s head off
to take (catch) (a) cold in the head
to have a running nose
rhinitis
to twist
measles
muscles
3. Gol. ex.251(w)