the patient or the doctor. Recite the dialogue in class.
18 See Notes on Synonyms and Antonyms on p. 18.
Example: Patient: You'd better ask me what is not the matter with me, doctor.
Doctor: Is it really as bad as that? What are you complaining of ?
Patient: Insomnia... and pains in the stomach.
Doctor: Oh, dear, isn't it too much for one man?
VI. Relell Text С in indirect spech: a) speaking on the part of the old man;
b) reproducing Nell's talk with Bert over the telephone. You may find the
following phrases useful:
a) to look a miserable wreck, to suffer from, to cheer smb. up, to be in despair, to be in high
spirits; b) to be afraid that, to be sorry for, to doubt smb.'s skill, to wonder if..., to feel hurt, to
suggest that one should...
VII. Study Essential Vocabulary (II) and
a) translate the illustrative examples into Russian;
b) express in writing the suggested idea using do for emphasis. Add a
sentence to show that the emphasis is necessary:
Examples:
Your brother did go to the chemist's to have your prescription made up
though he was pressed for time. Mother told you to put on your coat but you wouldn't and you did
catch a cold.
1. to have a nervous breakdown; 2. to keep to a diet; 3. to try to make an appointment with; 4.
to give (get) an injection; 5. to get sick leave; 6. to set in (about complications); 7. to prescribe pills
for; 8. to undergo a treatment; 9. to recover from; 10. to diagnose Smb.'s illness (as); 11. to have
one's tooth filled; 12. to need the services of a surgeon.
VIII. a) Supply prepositions where necessary:
Scarlet fever is an infectious fever, marked .. the appearance ... the second day ... a bright red
rash consisting ... closely-set red spots. Shortly after the patient develops a high temperature and
suffers ... painful sore throat. ... the third or fourth day the rash starts to fade and ... favourable cases
the temperature falls and the patient feels better. ... the end ... a week the rash usually disappears.
Complete recovery may be expected ... the following month, The complications ... scarlet fever are
very serious, the commonest being inflammation ... the ear. Scarlet fever is essentially a disease ...
children and young persons.
b) Give a short description of some other disease using a few phrases from
the text above.
IX. Correct the following statements, beginning each sentence with one of the
following phrases:
You're wrong. You're mistaken. I can't agree with you. Nothing of the kind. But... (it is, they
don't, etc.). I don't think you're right. Of course not. Just the other way round. On the contrary.