Ex. 1. Answer the following questions. 1. Which doctor treated you when you were ill last?

1. Which doctor treated you when you were ill last? Why did you consult the doctor? Did you go to the clinic or did you call the doctor in? Why was it necessary for you to see a doctor? What were your symptoms? What did the doctor say? Who had the prescription filled? Where is the nearest pharmacy in your neighbourhood? How long were you ill? Why didn’t you take a holiday after you recovered?

2. When did you see the dentist last? What was the matter with you? What did the dentist say? What did the dentist do? Was it painful?

3. I’ve been working hard for the past few months, I’m completely run down. What would you suggest I should do? Would you do the same?

4. What would you do if you fell ill? Would you follow the doctor’s recommendations if he advised you to stay in bed for a couple of days? It would be very annoying to stay in bed long, wouldn’t it? Who would take care of you if you were very seriously ill?

5. Do you have health insurance? Are you taking any medication? Have you ever had any operations? Are you allergic to anything?

Ex. 2. Complete the micro-dialogues.

1. Doctor: What illness did you suffer from in your childhood?

Patient: ___

2. Doctor: Have you got any ailments to complain of now?

Patient: ___

3. Patient: Doctor, I’ve been regularly suffering from pains in my stomach of late. I’m afraid to have caught some disease.

Doctor: ___

Ex. 3. Make up the micro-dialogues. Expand on the dialogues.

Ask your friend:

· why she/he looks so pale;

· if she/he considers ringing up the friend at such a late hour ill manners;

· what disease she/he was taken ill with last;

· what he/she would recommend you to take for airsickness;

· if he/she is not sick of listening to the same recording all day long;

· if she/he has ever been treated for quinsy;

· what treatments she/he took to stop putting on weight;

· where she/he was cured of pains in the stomach;

· if aspirin can be used to treat a three-year-old child for fever;

· if she/he knows any remedy to cure you of headaches.

Ex. 4. Think of some of the illnesses you (or members of your family or friend’s) have had. What were the symptoms and what did the doctor prescribe?

Ex. 5. Act out the following situations.

1. You have met the friend who, as you know, was sick. Express the pleasure concerning his recovery, ask him questions about his state of health at present, how he was treated. Advise him to take holiday and to have a rest after illness.

2. You have come on the reception to the doctor. Tell him, of what you complain (a headache, cough, etc.). As now you do not have time to have a thorough medical check-up, agree with the doctor, for what day it is possible to enter the name on the reception.

Ex. 6. Compose the report basing on one of the following topics for oral composition.

1. An accident you witnessed.

2. A visit to a throat (nerve, lung, etc.) specialist.

3. Coming back to the University after being ill.

4. The way someone attended to you when you were ill.

5. At the hospital.

6. The system of Public Health in Russia and in the United Kingdom.

7. The problem “Health and Sport”.

Ex. 7. Read the expressions used to describe healthy life style of people. Make up short situations or a story illustrating as many expressions and word-combinations as possible.