Attention!

Dear Students!

Take care of your motherland! Don’t cut the wild flowers. They may all disappear. Plant one oak tree a year. From one oak a forest grows. It is very simple. Put one acorn (желудь) into the land. Never throw or break glass bottles. You damage the land. Take only what you need from the land. Give more to the land than what you take.

Dmitry S. Krukov

Health at the doctor’s

I. Remember the following words and word combinations:

body – head – throat – heart – lungs – stomach – shoulder – chest – back – arm (hand) – finger – leg – foot (feet) – knee – toe – tongue – nursing centers – health resorts – disease – to take care of – to avoid – cough – to examine – to listen to – to suffer from – to X-ray – to prescribe – gargle – temperature – blood – treatment – to recover – ambulance – to cure – ward – indigestion – injection – insomnia – surgery – sore throat -

тело голова горло сердце легкие живот плечо грудная клетка спина рука (кисть) палец нога нога (ступня) колено палец ноги язык родильный дом санатории болезнь заботиться избежать кашлять изучать, исследовать слушать страдать от делать рентген предписывать полоскание температура кровь лечение выздоравливать машина скорой помощи лечить палата несварение желудка инъекция бессонница хирургия больное горло

II. Read the text: At the Doctor’s

Health is the most important thing in every person’s life. A large number of clinics, hospitals, nursing centers and health resorts take care of our health. But no matter how hard we try to avoid diseases, sometimes we can’t do it.

In winter, for example, we often catch cold and have the flu. As a result we have a splitting headache, a cold in the head, cough, and we are running a high temperature. Our whole body aches, so we must consult the doctor.

First the doctor examines the patient’s throat, listens to his heart and lungs, feels his pulse and blood pressure, and takes his temperature. The doctor asks what the trouble is, what diseases we suffered from in the childhood, and sometimes he sends us to some other specialists who will check up our stomach, eyesight, and hearing. The others will make our blood analysis, take our blood pressure and X-ray us. And then the district doctor fills the card and diagnoses the case. Then he prescribes a gargle and cough medicines: pills, powder, drops, and mixture. He also advises us to put a hot water bottle to our feet, to put mustard plasters, and to have hot tea with honey and raspberry jam. That would keep the temperature down. We should take care of ourselves and if we follow the prescribed treatment, we will recover soon without any complications.

In case of a sudden and severe illness or an accident calls are made to the first aid station. There the doctors are on duty all day long. There are many ambulances equipped with everything necessary to give the first aid. The patient is transported to hospital. There he is taken to the reception ward first. After questioning and examination the doctor fills in the patient’s case history. Then a patient is given special clothes and is put to some ward for treatment. The doctors make their daily round there. They examine patients and prescribe different medicines and treatments. And only when a patient is completely cured, he is discharged from the hospital.

In order to avoid diseases we must go in for sports because sports make us strong, healthy and cheerful.