2015-08-21
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Ex. 1. Fill in the right prepositions.
1) I have fallen ill … flu. 2) What do you take … coughing? 3) He was suffering … a very serious disease. 4) She has been laid up … a very bad cold. 5) The patient died … heart attack. 6) This doctor treats me … my mental overstrain. 7) Both my children are inoculated … measles. 8) The doctor told me that I had to be operated … … appendicitis. 9) He has been cured … his skin troubles. 10) It’s the first time the young surgeon has operated … a patient without the professor’s assistance. 11) There has been a vaccination … grippe. 12) I went to the dentist’s to have my tooth pulled ….13) Do you have any effective medicine … a headache?
Ex. 2. Match the adjectives with the nouns. Example: catching disease
a) catching, quick, chronic, sick, sore, normal, weak, bad (x2), slight, high, medical,
swollen, perfect, poor
b) person, temperature, throat, cold, chill, disease, headache, heart, pulse, illness, cheek
health, eyesight, equipment, blood-pressure
Ex. 3. Match the symptoms with the prescriptions.
| 1. If you’ve broken a leg | a. you have to be immediately inoculated against it. |
| 2. If you have a high temperature | b. you must have it X-rayed and then put in cast. |
| 3. If you have pain when swallowing | c. you have to be on a diet. |
| 4. If a member of your family has fallen ill with some infectious disease | d. you have to gargle your throat. |
| 5. If you have an abscess | e. you have to consult a surgeon |
| 6. If you have liver trouble | f. you have to take some medicine to reduce temperature |
