III.Language development:

1. What parts of the medicinal plants are used for medicinal purposes? 2. What is the time of collecting bark? 3. When is it recommended to collect fruits? 4. When was garlic known as medicinal plant? 5. What were medicinal plants used for by the ancient Slavs? 6. What physicians of antiquity do you know? 7. What is the role of folk medicine in our days?

2.Прочитайте уривки та скажіть, які лікарські рослини в них описуються:

1. In medieval times this plant was named “Flos Florum”; the flower of flowers. It has been cultivated more than 5000 years. The ancient Greeks and Romans made perfumes from its petals and medicines from fruits (the berries that appear in the autumn). In modern times it continous to reign supreme, both as a symbol of purity, beauty, love and youth, and as a joy for the gardener. This plant flowers from late June until the frosts of autumn. As a result of hybridization programmes these plants appear now in almost every colour - only true blue is missing. This plant is grown for its fragnant oils. The petals are gathered by hand. It has a very pleasant odour and is used in medicine, cosmetics, perfumes and food industry.

2. It is hard to believe that the fragnance of this plant comes from tiny flowers only % in long. Waxy white and bell-shaped flowers appear in April and May. It has clear green, broad leaves. This well-known plant grows from a branched horizontal rhizome. It can be found growing wild and it has been cultivated for more than 500 years. The rhizome, leaves, flowers and fruits (round red berries) are all poisonous. Its aromatic oil is used in skin lotion and perfume. In medicine it is used for the treatment of cardiac diseases.

3. This plant has been spreading round the world via fields of cereals since the Neolithic era about 8000years ago. Pliny the Elder reported the medicinal power of it in the 1 st century A. D. He said that the centaur Chiron used this plant to heal the wound on his leg inflicted by Hercules' arrow. It has bright blue flowers. Several hundred seed capsules ripen on a single plant. It is known not only as unwanted weed but also as one of the medicinal herbs of both folk and orthodox medicine. The bright blue flower heads of this plant are diuretic. In France a tincture made from the plant is used in eye treatment.

The flowers described are: cornflower, rose, lily of the valley.

Опишіть лікарську рослину:

1. Description of the plant. 2. Interesting facts about it. 3. Its use in medicine.

V. Speaking.

1.Складіть запитання, до яких ці речення будуть відповідями:

1. Since time immemorial man has known about the medicinal properties of plants. 2. All parts of plants are collected in certain period of time. 3. The unripe seed capsules of the opium poppy were used as pain-killers in ancient Greece. 4. All parts of the plant differ as to the shape, taste, colour and odour. 5. Garlic was prescribed for all lung and intestinal diseases. 6. Many folk medicine remedies and resources are studied by specialists and researchers. 7. The medieval physician Avicenna recommended the so called Rus’ medicine.