EXERCISES
1. Give the four forms of the verbs:
Hurt, rise, cure, fall, keep, cut, drop, feel, break, cup, die, lose, gargle, put, swell, strip, squint, heal, scald.
2. Give derivatives, word combinations and expressions:
Sleep, nerve, cough, examine, ill, operate, treat, prescribe, consult, aid, health, swell, blood, stammer, eyesight, prevent, care, amputate, vaccinate, inject, medical, sprain.
3. Give Russian equivalents of the following:
- Sick-leave, examination, recovery, headache, to sneeze, consulting-room, chemist, remedy, to sprain, to fait, amputation, ward, to limp, splinter, injection, swelling, cancer, hot water bottle, epidemic, health-resort, stretcher, cripple.
- To have a bad cough; to consult a doctor; to see one's tongue; to take one's temperature; to have pain in the chest; to feel one's pulse; to die of TB; to suffer from sleeplessness; to be treated for pneumonia; to take pills for a headache; to be nervous; curable disease; to make up a prescription; in a sling, to dress s wound, to undergo an operation; swollen fingers; to be laid up in a hospital; a coated tongue; to be run down; medical equipment; disease prevention; to gargle one's throat; to have an X-ray taken; medicine for external (internal) use; to take a deep breath; to affect one's eyesight, to go on crutches; to have a good effect on one's health; to feel giddy.
What's the trouble? What's the doctor's diagnosis? Take a table spoonful three times a day. You don't look at all well. Must I keep him in bed? I am so-so. What are directions for use? This treatment did me (a world of) good. The doctor receives patients in the morning. The tooth is not good any more. Strip to waist. I have liver trouble. My nose is all clogged up. Hold your breath.
4. Translate into English rapidly (in case you cannot, review the list of words again)
- насморк, пломба, кашлять, лекарство, больница, аптека, знобит, пациент, нервный, приемная врача, регистратура, лихорадит, приступ кашля, охрипнуть, электропроцедуры, заика, хромать, болеутоляющие средства, амбулаторный больной, быть переутомленным, первая помощь, грелка, горчичник.
- Осматривать больного, сделать компресс, позвать врача, пломбировать зуб, удалить зуб, порезать палец, сломать ногу, испытывать боль в спине, получать больничный лист, подвергнуться операции, вызвать скорую помощь, вылечится от воспаления легких, проверить пульс, прописать микстуру от кашля, быть здоровым, страдать от бессонницы, следовать указаниям врача, испытывать головокружение, лихорадит, сделать рентген, принимать лечебные ванны, измерять температуру, находиться под наблюдением врача, оказывать первую помощь, сделать анализы, отрицательно сказываться на здоровье, приходить в себя
- Ты больна? Ты выглядишь совсем плохо. У меня сильно болит голова. У вас грипп. Вам следует полежать в постели. У нее температура 38,8°. Она болела корью? Осложнений после болезни не было. Я хорошо себя чувствую. Грипп заразен. Как здоровье вашего брата? У него болит горло. Какой диагноз? Это лекарство мне совсем не помогло. Как принимать лекарство? Дайте мне что-нибудь от боли в желудке. На что вы жалуетесь? Когда вы заболели? В какие часы принимает врач? Вам не больно глотать? У меня заложен нос. Доктор прописал мне микстуру. Дышите глубже. Не дышите.
5. Choose the right word:
Ill-sick
The nurse mixed the medicine with a tea spoon and gave it to the ... man who sat up in
bad to take it.
When people are … and have temperature of over 39 degrees we say they are in high fever.
When I go on board of a ship or a boat, 1 feel . . .
He was suddenly taken …
To treat-to cure
After scarlet fever complications developed, and they had to be ... for a month before
the patient was completely...
The open air life on a farm ... him of his disease.
The doctor said that if I followed his instructions, I should soon be ... of the disease.
Illness-disease
What did Mr. White die of? Did he suffer from any chronic... or complications after a
serious...?
The .., was catching, and the doctor said he would put me on the sick-list.
The grippe, scarlet fever and measles are catching...
His ... prevented him from going to school together with his friends.
Cure-heal
Fresh air, sunshine, good food may ...a patient of tuberculosis by ... his lungs.
Ache-pain-hurt
As Joe coming home a sudden... in his heart made him stop and lean against the wall of
a house.
6. Fill in the blanks with the words given in brackets
A. " To tell the truth, I thought you might give me something to stop the ... I hate and fear pain!" said Flair truthfully. “The ... that 1 have given you stop pain", said the Doctor. “Take it at once when you feel the attack coming on". He met he gentle irony in Flair's eyes, and added seriously, “Miss Caldecott, you may have a serious..." “Well, that would be the end of me, I expect!" said Flair lightly. “Good-bye, Doctor, and thank you!”
She went out of the ... and through the wide hall and into the street, hardly thinking of what he had told her, because she was absorbed by other thoughts.
Flair had her prescription... on the way home, and then went round by way of the market (consulting-room, pain, illness, prescription, made up).
7. Complete the sentences:
- If you have a toothache you consult a...
- If something has got into your eye you go to see an ...
- If you have a sore throat you consult a ...
- If you have a heart attack you call a ...
- If you catch the grippe you are attended by a ...
- If your nerves are out of order you consult a ...
- If your little sister or brother has a high temperature you send for a ...
8. Find an adjective in list B to fit each noun in list A
- a person, temperature, throat, chill, cold, headache, heart, pulse, disease, illness, cheek, health, eyesight, equipment, blood-pressure, disease, bath, use, tongue.
- catching, quick, chronic, sick, sore, normal, weak, bad, slight, perfect, infectious, high, mud, medical, external, poor, splitting, swollen, and internal.
9. Arrange the following words and expressions in four columns: at a dentist's, at a surgeon's, at an oculist's at a throat specialist's.
A cut, eye-glasses, to feel pain in swallowing, a coated tongue, to have a tooth extracted, cross-eyed, to undergo an operation, to break a leg, to be hoarse, to put in a cast, a filling, to squint, a metal crown, to apply a dressing, a toothache, short/ near sighted, to gargle one's throat, to stop a tooth, to amputate, to get a splinter, to sprain an ankle.
10. Give synonyms or synonymous phrases:
to hurt, to have a tooth pulled out, an eye-specialist, a children's doctor, to faint, to go to a doctor, to be unwell, a sick person, to get well, to recover consciousness. Use them in sentences.
11. Give the opposite to:
medicine for internal use; far- sighted, to take off a compress, to undress a wound, the temperature rises, to feel well, to be out of bed, to come to oneself. Use them in sentences.
12. Complete the sentences:
- On Saturday I went out without my warm coat on and now...
- The doctor took the patient's temperature and said...
- I can hardly breath because ...
- When she came home she complained of a headache and her mother...
- The patient said that...
- It hurts me when I swallow because ...
- The best remedy for it is ...
- When I have a splitting headache...
- This medicine will work wonders if...
- If you follow the doctor's instructions you'll ...
- You must give up smoking...
- She looks very thin...
- She looks the picture of health...
- She is losing weight...
13. Fill in the blanks with suitable words:
- The doctor... his patient very carefully and ... some medicine.
- I can hardly turn my head because of...
- The flu usually begins with...
- There is nothing serious the matter with you, it's just...
- You look rather ... today.
- It ... me when I swallow.
- Let me feel your pulse...
- 1 don't like this sound of your...
- Do you feel any ... over there?
- He has been ill with... for a week already.
- If you want... you must follow the doctor's advice.
- Will you go to ... and have ... made?
- ... the throat three times a day.
- This ...is very good for a cough.
- I am feeling...
- You have all the ... of the grippe.
- If you are ... to colds you should take a good care of yourself.
- She caught ...when we were skiing.
- Your forehead is hot, let me take...
- My sister was ill with... when she was a child.
14. Insert prepositions or postverbal adverbs wherever necessary.
- What are you complaining...?
- The best remedy ... a headache is fresh air.
- Will you go ... the chemist's and have this prescription made up, please?
- The doctor has given him a sick-leave because he has a very bad complication... his heart... quinsy.
- The weather has been nasty lately and many people have fallen ill... the flu.
- She is ill... quinsy... a bad form.
- You'd better take a tablet of analgine... your headache.
- She says she is subject... coughs.
VOCABULARY
Health
health
to be/ to keep in good health
to ask after smb's health
healthy
How are you?
How do you feel?
You look the very picture of health
to be taken ill
to fall ill with the grippe (measles etc)
Consulting a Doctor
doctor
a district / visiting doctor
to consult / to see, to go to a doctor
to send for / to call a doctor
consulting - room
ambulance
to call / to telephone for an ambulance
patient
to see a patient
What is the matter with you?
What is the trouble?
What is your complaint?
medical aid
first aid
to give first aid
consulting hours
(poly-)clinic
Patient's Complaints
Something is wrong with my ear (eye, etc)
hurt (hurt)
He (hurt) his leg when he fell
downstairs
pain
to have/to feel a pain
to have pains
headache
to have a headache
slight headache
bad headache
toothache
earache
stomach - ache
sore
I have a sore throat (finger, leg, etc)
temperature
high / low / normal temperature
The temperature falls (drops, goes down)
rises (goes up)
to cut one's finger
to break a leg (an arm etc)
to be wounded
symptom
to feel / to be giddy
sweat
to catch a chill
to be hoarse
ache
splitting headache
to be run down
sick
to be / feel sick
to suffer from sleeplessness(headache, etc)
appetite
1 have lost my appetite
to be nervous
weak / bad heart
heart attack
cold
to catch a slight cold
to catch a slight cold
to catch a bad cold
cough
slight / bad cough
sneeze
fever
to feel feverish
faint
to lose consciousness
to recover consciousness
to come to oneself
heart trouble
lung trouble
kidney trouble
liver trouble
injure
sprain
swell (swelled, swollen)
swollen cheek (arm, leg, etc)
swelling
scald
splinter
to get a splinter into one's finger
to be badly wounded
Examining a patient
examine
to examine a patient
examination
to listen to one's heart
to see one's tongue
to feel one's pulse
The pulse may be quick (slow, weak)
to sound one's chest (lungs)
to breathe
to diagnose
diagnoses
slight / serious disease
curable / incurable disease
catching disease
to die of a disease
complications
to strip to the waist
the tongue is coated
to hold one's breath
to take a deep breath
Medical Advice and Medical Treatment
to treat smb for some disease
treatment
sick-leave/sick-list
to keep one’s bed
to stay in bed
to keep smb in bed
to give smth for the flue (one’s cough, headache)
to prescribe
prescription
instructions/directions
What are the instructions for use (the medicine)?
to follow the doctor's instructions
to take smth for one's cough (headache, etc)
to take a spoonful of smth
compress
diet, to be on/ to keep /a diet
to operate, to be operated on
nurse
bandage
to fill/ to stop a tooth
filling/ stopping
to pull out a tooth
to do (a world of) good
to do harm
electrical treatment
to have an analysis taken
blood test
to have a blood test taken
to be X-rayed
to have an X-ray taken
blood pressure
to have high (low, normal) blood pressure
to take one's blood-pressure
inject, injection ( of some medicine)
to gargle one's throat ( with medicine)
to perform an operation
to be laid up in a hospital
to undergo an operation, amputation
to dress a wound
to wash (to clean, to bandage) a wound
sling, in a sling
to heal
to be under a doctor's care
The treatment does not agree with me
health-resort
medical baths
to cure smb of some disease
recover, recovery
rest-home, sanatorium
At the Chemist's Medicines
chemist
chemist's shop
to make up a prescription
mixture
pills / tablets
powders
drops
ointment
iodine
cotton
(eye) glasses
cups, to cup
thermometer
remedy
pain – killer
plaster
mustard plaster
valerian drops
hot-water bottle / bag
mineral water
Names of Specialists
physician
surgeon
throat-specialist
eye - specialist = oculist
nerve – specialist
dentist
children’s doctor
specialist for children’s diseases
professor
Names of Diseases
Illness
The flu (e)
influenza= the grippe
Measles
Pneumonia
Inflammation of the lungs
Scarlet fever
Tuberculosis
Quinsy
Abscess
Apoplexy
Appendicitis
Asthma
Bleeding
Blood poisoning
Bronchitis
Boil
Cancer
Cholera
Concussion of the brain
Constipation
Mumps
Plague
Rheumatism
Sun-stroke
Typhus
Typhoid fever
Whooping- cough
Chicken-pox
Cramp
Small-pox
A heart attack
An attack of cough
Dysentery
Body Defects
bad / poor (good)eyesight
long -/ far – sighted
short-/ near - sighted
blind
deaf
dumb
deaf and dumb
lame
cross-eyed
cripple
limp
crutches
stammer, stammerer
to squint
concern for
disease prevention
accommodation card
to go through
reception-office
my nose is all clogged up to be confined to bed
patient's file, case history
in-patient, out-patient
fit of coughing
ward
to relieve pain
to affect one's health
to have a good (bad) effect on one's health
medicine for internal (external) use
antiseptic
anesthetic
laxative
rash
to put in a cast
stretcher
burn
blister
chilblain
vaccinate, vaccination
false tooth, crown
Synonyms and Words Usual Confused by Russian Learners
ILL-SICK
To be ill means to be in bad health, to be unwell.
The sick man means one who is ill.
The word ill is never used before a noun.
PAIN-ACHE
Pain: refers to suffering of mind or body: It is sharp and sudden.
Ache: is generally used only in physical sense: It means a continuous pain.
ILLNESS-DISEASE
Illness: the state of being ill.
Disease: refers to a particular kind of illness with special symptoms and name.
CURE-HEAL-TREAT
Cure: means to bring back to health
Heal: means to make healthy after wounds of any kind
Treat: means to make care of with medicines. It refers to the process of curing.