IV. Choose the right word.
Ill, sick
1. After that substantial dinner I feel positively … 2. Val was out of sorts, … and tired of everything. 3. She was taken … at midnight and driven to the hospital in the ambulance. 4. I’m not so … that I can’t continue with my work. 5. Jane hasn’t been around for quite a while; she must be … again. She is a very … person. 6. He is seriously … with pneumonia. 7. If you are …, see a doctor.
V. Translate from English into Russian.
1. “You don’t look your usual self this morning” said my wife at breakfast. 2. I hardly slept a wink all night. 3. My head was throbbing violently and there were moments when it felt as if the whole office was going round. 4. I woke up sweating all over. 5. You should stay away from work for the rest of the week and take it easy. 6. Keep him well covered up. 7. I felt giddy and was glad to lie down again.
Exercise VI. Give English equivalents for the following words and expressions.
Сильная головная боль, схватить грипп, грелка, вызвать врача, эпидемия, пощупать пульс, прослушать сердце и легкие, чувствовать себя отвратительно, выписать рецепт, принимать аспирин, сбить температуру.
Exercise VII. How many synonyms to the following do you know?
To feel ill, to fall ill, to hurt, to lie in bed, to run a temperature.
Exercise VIII. Supply the missing prepositions and adverbs where necessary.
1. The doctor isn’t likely to prescribe any special medicine … your headaches. 2. During the recent epidemic … the grippe many children stayed … … school, being laid … … the desease.3. The boy was shivering … cold. 4. To recover quickly a patient must follow … all the doctor’s instructions. 5. Here are two prescriptions, one … some pills and one … a tonic. 6. Unfasten your jacket and your shirt, I’ll listen … your heart. 7. You’d better keep … bed for a day or two. 8. Take … this mixture, it will help to bring your temperature … . 9. Roy complained … pain in the stomach. 10. If you don’t take care … yourself, you may have a nervous breakdown and have to go … hospital.
Exercise IX. Transform the dialogue into indirect speech.
Nurse: (Answers the telephone) Students’ Health Centre.
Roger: I’d like to make an appointment to see a doctor.
Nurse: Is this an emergency?
Roger: I’m not sure. I’ve had stomach cramps for two days. They’re getting worse.
Nurse: Any vomiting?
Roger: No, but I don’t have any appetite. Nurse: Do you have other symptoms?
Roger: A bad headache, but I think that’s from not eating.
Nurse: I don’t think it’s anything serious. Probably just the flu. But let’s not take a chance. Why don’t you come in half an hour?
Roger: I’ll be there.
Nurse: We’ll see you then.
Read the text.
Being ill
“You don’t look your usual self this morning,” said my wife at breakfast.
“No, I’m not feeling up too much,” I said. “I don’t know what I’ve got, but I hardly slept a wink all night, and now I’ve got a splitting headache.”
“Poor
old thing,” she said, feeling my forehead. “It feels as if you’ve
got a bit of a temperature.”
At work, I felt ghastly all morning. My head was now throbbing violently and there were moments when it felt as if the whole office was going round. At eleven o’clock I took a couple of aspirins with my coffee, they didn’t seem to do any good. By lunchtime I had to admit that I was running a high temperature: I felt hot and shivery at the same time.
I called my secretary in. “Look, Pam,” I said. “I’m not feeling too well. I’m going to take the rest of the day off.”
“Yes, of course, Mr. Gardener. You do look poorly. I hope you haven’t got this nasty flu that’s around.”
Feeling rather sorry for myself, I put on my overcoat and wrapped a scarf around my neck.
When I got home I went straight to bed and my wife gave me a hot water bottle. I certainly felt better lying down.
“I’ll bring you some lunch in a minute,” said my wife.
“No, thank you,” I said. “I can’t eat a thing. All I want is a glass of water. Then I’ll sleep for a bit.”
“Don’t you think I’d better call the doctor?” she said. “I shouldn’t be surprised if you’ve got this flu, like Mrs. Higgins”
Mrs. Higgins was our daily help, and she’s been off work for the last few days.
Then I must have dozed off, for I woke up, sweating all over, to hear the doctor coming up the stairs. “Quite an epidemic of it,” I heard him say to my wife. I sat up feeling stiff and uncomfortable; my pajamas were sticking to me.
“Now then,” said the doctor, sitting on the edge of the bed. “Let’s have a good look at you.” He opened his bag and stuck a thermometer in my mouth. While he was waiting he took my pulse. Then he took out the thermometer and looked at it. “Just over a hundred and two,” he mumbled.
He put a stethoscope in his ears and listened to my chest.
***“Now the throat. Say “Ah”. Silence. “Looks a bit sore. Does it hurt when you swallow?” I nodded. “Mm. It’s flue all right. The throat’s nothing serious.” He looked for his pen. “Look here, I’m going to keep you in bed for a day or two. Keep taking plenty of aspirin to bring your temperature down, and I’ll give you some pills to help you to sleep at night. You should stay away from work for the rest of the week and take it easy. It’s much better to shake it all off in one go if you can. Otherwise, if you go back to work too soon, it might drag on indefinitely.”***
He wrote out a prescription and handed it to my wife. As she saw him to the door I heard him saying: “He’s bound to feel rotten for the next day or two, but in any case I’ll drop in again the day after tomorrow to see how he’s getting on. Keep him well covered up.”
For two days I was terribly weak. Whenever I had to get out of bed, I felt giddy and was glad to lie down again. Moreover I couldn’t face eating anything; all I wanted was lots of drink and plenty of sleep. I didn’t even feel like reading. Then, suddenly, I felt much better. My temperature was almost back to normal, my appetite came back, and I felt I wanted to do something useful. Now my wife had to struggle to keep me in bed. “You’re not to overdo it,” she said. “Flue takes it out of you more than you think.” So I spent the time catching up with my reading. In fact, It was now all rather pleasant.
Assignments to the text:
Translate the marked passage (***) from English into Russian.
How many synonyms to the following do you know?
To feel ill, to fall ill, to hurt, to lie in bed, to run a temperature, to look poorly.
c) Complete the sentences:
1. I don’t feel like …
2. How about …
3. The doctor entered the room to find the patient …
4. Maggie is in the habit of …
5. Children are afraid of …
6. Richard hates the idea of …
7. For you it’s better to ….
d) Make underlined sentences Passive.
e) Describe what symptoms the man had.
f) What did the doctor do when he visited the patient?
Doctor
Physician – American formal.
GP (General Practitioner) – British, a doctor who is trained to treat all kinds of illnesses and treats people who live in one local area.
The place where you go to see a doctor
The doctor’s (British), the doctor’s office (American)
Clinic – in the US, a place where several doctors have offices; in Britain, a place where people can go for advice about a specific medical condition: a family planning clinic, a clinic for people with alcohol problems.
Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
After four hours less ten minutes a nurse called him and said the doctor would see him now.
She asked no more questions but sent him off to have an X-ray.
“I’ll call an ambulance.”
A nutritious diet was prescribed, plus diuretics, oral antibiotics and beta blockers.
Study the pictures and make up dialoguess of your own.
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