Fill in the gaps with the proper words or word combinations.

for a lifetime, headache, recurrence, disappear, antibiotic regimen, resistance, pain

Certain medications, particularly over-the-counter remedies used to treat pain and other symptoms, are used only as needed. For instance, a person might take aspirin or ibuprofen when a _______________ (1) develops, and stop when the ________________ (2) subsides. In contrast, some drugs, such as antihypertensives and insulin, are taken ________________ (3). In other cases, medications must be taken for the full duration of time instructed by a doctor or pharmacist for it to be effective.

Many patients who have been prescribed an ________________ (4) for 7 to 10 days stop taking the drugs as soon as their symptoms _______________ (5), assuming they have been cured. However, while symptoms may have abated, some of the infecting organisms may still be present and can cause the ________________ (6) of the infection. This time the situation may be more serious, because the surviving organisms may have developed ________________ (7) to the first antibiotic, necessitating a switch to a different, more potent drug.

Translate the text in written form.

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LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Answer the following questions.

1. Tell as much as possible about a dose of a drug.

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2. What is a dosage regimen?

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3. What do we call a dosage form, and what dosage forms do you know?

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4. What common routes of drug administration can you name?

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5. Give the definition to the optimal dosage of a drug.

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6. What are additives, and what are they used for?

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2. Do you know that …

· Up to 50% of patients worldwide do not take their prescribed medicines as recommended?

· Around 4-5% of hospital admissions are due to problems caused by the incorrect use of medicines? This is an estimated cost of £466 million a year to the NHS in England.

· Generic medicines are as effective as the branded versions, but can cost up to 80% less?

· Just 10 days after starting a new medicine one-third of people weren't taking it as intended and two-thirds were experiencing at least one problem with it?

Surf the internet and find 1 to 2 more interesting facts.

Translate into English using the vocabulary of the Unit.

Любое лекарство, покупаемое в аптеке, сопровождено специальной инструкцией по применению. Соблюдение или несоблюдение правил приема может оказать большое, если не решающее, влияние на действие лекарства. Например, при приеме внутрь пища, а также желудочный сок, пищеварительные ферменты, желчь, которые выделяются в процессе ее переваривания, могут взаимодействовать с лекарствами и изменять их свойства. Именно поэтому совсем не безразлично, когда лекарство будет принято: натощак, во время или после еды.

Свойства того или иного лекарства могут изменяться в зависимости от пищевого рациона и времени приема. Очень важно принимать препарат в то время, которое указано врачом, или рекомендуется в инструкции. В противном случае лекарство может стать просто бесполезным, или даже принести вред. Конечно, есть препараты, которые действуют "независимо от приема пищи", и это обычно указывают в инструкции.

GRAMMAR IN USE

Remind the rules of Past Simple and Present Perfect. Here are the words to be used with each grammar tense.

Past Simple	Present Perfect
yesterday	already
last week/month/year	always
in 1988	never
3 hours/minutes/days ago	ever
for (только для ситуаций, которые завершились)	just
	yet
	lately
	this week/month/year
	for
	since

Choose the correct verb.

- … (Have you ever been/Did you ever go) to England?

- Yes, I … (have been/went) to Oxford last spring.

- … (Have you liked/Did you like) the city?

- Yes, I … (have/did). I … (have visited/visited) a lot of colleges there.

- And … (have you been/did you go) to London?

- No, but I … (have already bought/already bought) the tickets to London.

The following questions with verbs in the Present Perfect have two variants of answers, both in the Past Simple and Present Perfect. Open the brackets, be careful, complete the sentences if necessary.

E.g.: Have you read that book? – No, I _______________ (No, I haven’t )

Yes, I ______________ it last year. (Yes, I read it last year.)

Ты читал эту книгу? – Нет, не читал.

Да, я читал ее в прошлом году.

1. Have you fed the cats? – Yes, I ____________ / Yes, I _____________them before dinner.

2. Has she ever eaten snails? – No, she ____________ / Yes, she ____________them in Italy

last summer.

3. Have they found the photos? – No, they _____________ / Yes, they _____________ them

yesterday.

4. Have you planted the tulips? – No, I ____________ yet. / Yes, I ____________them on Friday.

5. Has he already seen your garden? – Yes, he ____________ / Yes, he ___________ it a month

ago.

Наши рекомендации

Fill in the gaps with the words from the box and put them into a proper form

Fill in the blanks in the sentences using the appropriate words and word combinations from the following list.

Fill in the blanks with words and word combinations from the functional vocabulary

Fill in the gaps with words and word combinations from the list

Fill in the gaps with the words in the table. There is one extra word.

Fill in the gaps with the proper words.

IV. Fill in the spaces with the suitable words and word combinations

Ex.7. Translate the words and word combinations given in the box into English. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words and translate the sentences.

Exercise 35. Choose appropriate words and word-combinations. Fill in the spaces in the sentence.

VIII. Restore the dialogue filling in the gaps with the words and word combinations from the list, translate it into Russian

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