часа мать измерила ребенку температуру и увидела, что лекарство не помогло.

Пришел врач и сказал, что у ребенка воспаление легких, но серьезной опасности пока

нет. Он спросил, когда мальчик заболел. Мать вспомнила, что еще со вторника он все время

говорил, что у него болит голова и ломит все тело.

«Не волнуйтесь. Все будет хорошо, — сказал врач, — но вам бы следовало отвезти

ребенка в больницу».

«Я лучше сама присмотрю за ним», — сказала мать.

«Что же, — сказал врач, — не буду настаивать. Не нужно расстраиваться. Если вы

будете точно следовать моим указаниям, я уверен, что через несколько дней ему будет лучше».

Врач ушел, но подумал, что было бы все-таки лучше отправить ребенка в больницу.

XV. Make up three short dialogues, using the phrases listed below:

a) to have a headache, to have a fever, to take one's temperature, had better, to have a

prescription made up;

b) to consult a doctor, a light epidemic of flu, to prescribe the medicine for, to be light-

headed, would rather, to do good;

c) to take smth. easy, to keep from doing smth., there is nothing to worry about, on condition

that, to be of no importance.

XVI. Try your hand at teaching.

1. Say what yon would do in the teacher's position:

During a music lesson, while the teacher tried to demonstrate the rhythm of a song, Pete took

two pencils and proceeded to drum on a book. The teacher stopped playing and demanded to know

who was drumming. No reply came forth, so she resumed her playing. This very instant the

drumming started again. The teacher, who had been on the alert, caught Pete in the act.

2. Practise your "Classroom English".

Play the part of the teacher and get your pupils to write a spelling test on the

board.

a) Prepare a test on the vocabulary of Unit Two at home.

b) Ask several pupils to write the words on the board.

c) Make sure that the board is properly prepared for writing on it: the writing it

eligible; all the mistakes are corrected; the whole class is involved. (See "Classroom

English", Sections IV. VIII, IX)

IABORATORY EXERCISES (I)

1. Listen to the text "A Day's Wait", mark the stresses and tunes, repeat the text following the

model.

2. Paraphrase the following sentences, combining them into one conditional sentence. Make

all necessary changes.

3. Respond to the following sentences according to the model. Use the inverted form of

conditional sentences in your responses.

4. Extend the following sentences according to the model. Use the verbs suggested.

5. Write a spelling-translation test a) translate the phrases into English; b) check them with

the key.

6. Translate the sentences into English and check them with the key. Repeat the key aloud.

7. Listen to the text "Patients Needed" some other text on the topic. Find English equivalents

of the Russian phrases in the text. Retell the text in indirect speech.

TOPIC: ILLNESSES AND THEIR TREATMENT

TEXT A. A VICTIM TO ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN FATAL MALADIES

From "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome

I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight

ailment. I got down the book and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly

turned the leaves and began to study diseases, generally. I forgot which was the first, and before I

had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms", I was sure that I had got it.

I sat for a while frozen with horror; and then in despair Г again turned over the pages. I came

to typhoid fever — read the symptoms — discovered that I had typhoid fever— began to get

interested in my case, and so started alphabetically.

Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been bom with. I

looked through the twenty-six letters, and the only disease I had not got was housemaid's knee.

I sat and thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view. Students

would have no need to "walk the hospitals" if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need

do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.

Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could

not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch

and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not

feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up

to my head but I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as.far as

ever it would go, and I shut one eye and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip,

but I felt more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.

I had walked into the reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a miserable wreck.

I went to my medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my

tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill. So I went straight up and

saw him, and he said:

"Well, what's the matter with you?"

I said:

"I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is

short and you might pass away before I had finished. But 1 will tell you what is not the matter with

me. Everything else, however, I have got."

And I told him how I came to discover it all,

Then he opened me and looked down me, and took hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over

the chest when I wasn't expecting it — a cowardly thing to do, I call it After that, he sat down and

wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.

I did not open it, I took it to the nearest chemist's, and handed it in. The man read it, and then

handed it back. He said he didn't keep it.

I said:

"You are a chemist?"

He said:

"1 am a chemist. If I was a co-operative stores and family hotel combined, 1 might be able to

oblige you."

I read the prescription. It ran:

"1 lb.16 beefsteak, with

1 pt.17 bitter beer

every six hours.

1 ten-mile walk every morning.

1 bed at 11 sharp every night.

And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand."

I followed the directions with the happy result that my life was preserved and is still going

on.

NOTES ON SYNONYMS

1. (See Note 1 on p. 18.) Synonyms may also differ by the degree or intensity of the

phenomenon described or by certain additional implications conveyed by their meanings. E. g.

malady describes a more dangerous illness than disease, sometimes a fatal one, whereas ailment

mostly refers to a slight disorder. Malady implies a lasting, sometimes a chronic illness, whereas

ailment is short and temporary. Illness is the most general word in the group (the synonymic

dominant).

2. Synonyms may differ by their stylistic characteristics. E. g. chum is a colloquial synonym

of Mend, to fancy sounds less formal than to imagine. To pass away is a bookish synonym of to die.

TEXT B. A VISIT TO THE DOCTOR

— Well, what's the matter with you, Mr. Walker?

— You'd better ask me what is not the matter with me, doctor. I seem to be suffering from all