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8) ... He wrote out a prescription and folded it up;

9) ... the man handed it back;

10) ... don't stuff up your head with it;

11) ... they used to put it down to laziness;

12) ... it was brought on by overwork;

13) ... we should seek out some spot;

14) ... to dream away a sunny week;

15) ... I stuck my tongue out.

XVI. Insert articles into the gaps where necessary:

I remember my brother-in-law going for ( ) short sea trip once for ( ) benefit of his health. He took ( ) return berth from London to Liverpool; and when he got to Liverpool, ( ) only thing he was anxious about was to sell that return ticket.

It was offered round ( ) town at ( ) tremendous reduction, so I am told; and was eventually sold for eighteen pence to ( ) bilious-looking youth who had just been advised by his medical man to go to ( ) sea-side, and take exercise.

"Sea-side!" said my brother-in-law, pressing ( ) ticket affectionately into his hand; "why, you'll have enough to last you ( ) lifetime; and as for exercise! why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on ( ) dry land".

He himself – my brother-in-law came back by ( ) train. He said ( ) North-Western Railway was healthy enough for him.

(From "Three men in a Boat" by J.K. Jerome)

XVII. Make up stories using the following verbal collocations:

a) to feel seedy; to get nervous about smth; to plod conscientiously through a book; to feel the pulse; to do smb a good turn; no tongue can tell; to take no interest in smth.

b) to feel fits of giddiness; to be impelled to the conclusion; to feel rather hurt about smth; to time the pulse; to clutch hold of the wrist; to be in a far less advanced stage; to be struck with the suggestion.

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XVIII. Work in twos. Speak about health problems using the following verbal phrases:

a) to be out of order; to be a sort of slight; to stick the tongue out; to hit smb over the chest; to feel more anxious; to resume the discussion upon smth.

b) to be sickening for smth; to sift a book to the bottom; to be suffering with smth from boyhood; to feel more certain than before; to butt smb with the side of the head; to go straight away; to restore the mental equilibrium.

Comprehension Check. Discussion.

XIX. Answer the questions:

1. What were the three friends talking about?

2. Who felt extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him?

3. Whose liver seemed to be out of order? Why?

4. To what conclusion was the story-teller impelled while reading a patent medicine advertisement?

5. What did he go to the British Museum for?

6. What disease "must he have had for months without knowing it"?

7. The acute stage of what disease "would commence in about another fortnight"?

8. What malady didn't he have?

9. Why would did he grow less selfish?

10. What disease was the last in the book?

11. Why would the students have no need to "walk hospitals"?

12. How did the story-teller try to examine himself?

13. What did he say to his medical man?

14. How did the doctor examine the patient?

15. What was the patient prescribed?

16. What simple, old-fashioned remedy was used to cure him in his childhood?

17. Why did the friends smile sadly at one another?

18. Were they healthy enough to swallow a bit, refill their glasses and light their pipes?

19. What was their diagnosis?