VII. Fill ina) ache, hurt, pain, painful: — What... you? — I can't say I feel any sharp... in some definite place, I just... all over. — Does it... you to move your arms, legs or head? — My head... all the time, it... me to look at the light and each movement is.... — Well, I must examine you. Don't be afraid, it won't be.... — But, doctor, each touch gives me.... — Well, try and take it easy. b) in, on: — Your child's health is... a rather bad condition, he must be thoroughly examined in the policlinic. — But, doctor, he is... no condition to leave the house, he's too weak. — Perhaps we'd better take him to hospital then. — Oh, doctor, isn't it possible to keep him at home? — Well, only... condition that you follow all my instructions. c) refuse, give up: 1. In spite of his father's wish he... to leave the Medical Institute as he was fond of medicine and didn't want to.... 2. I decided to break with him after he had... to help me when I was in great need of help. 3. Though she regularly... his proposals he couldn't... his dream of marrying her sooner or later. 4. If she asks me for any favour I'll never... her. 5. If I were you I wouldn't... my plan so easily. d) like, as: 1. The children jumped and squealed (визжали)... little puppies. 2. The girl tried to behave... a grown-up person. 3. She was invited to this conference... a specialist in medicine. 4. He works... a doctor in one of our hospitals. 5. You just listen to him, he speaks... a real doctor, though he doesn't know anything about medicine. 6.... your doctor, I don't allow you to get up for some more days. VIII. Write 5 questions after each pattern below. (Keep to the same word order.) Discuss them in class: 1. Do you think the boy would have worried about his temperature if he had known the difference between the Fahrenheit and the Centigrade thermometers? 2. Why, do you think, the medicines were in different coloured capsules? IX. Retell the text in reported speech following the outline given below: 1. The boy looks ill. 2. The father calls for a doctor. 3. The doctor diagnoses the illness and leaves instructions. 4. The boy seems detached from what is going on around him. 5. The father goes for a walk. 6. The boy's state troubles his father. 7. The father finds out what worries the boy. 8. The boy relaxes. Use the vocabulary of the text and the words: to ask (about, if, why), to wonder (whether, why, what...), to say (that), to tell smb. (about smth.), to add (that), to answer (that), to reply (that), to inquire after (smb.'s health), to declare (that). X. Supply articles where necessary: 1.... clinical thermometer is... small thermometer for finding... temperature of... body. 2.... boiling point of... Fahrenheit thermometer is 212°, of... Centigrade thermometer — 100° and of... Reamur thermometer — 80°. 3.... kilometer is... measure of length as well as... mile and... foot;... kilogram and... pound are... measures of weight. 4. His high temperature worried... boy because he didn't know... difference between... Fahrenheit and Centigrade thermometers. XI. Make up short dialogues starting with the sentences below. Try and argue with each other: 1. The mother to the father: You shouldn't have gone for a walk when the child was ill. 2. The father to the boy: You should have told me what worried you. 3. The mother to the boy: You should have let me in, why didn't you? 4. The mother to the father: You might have guessed that something was worrying the boy. 5. The father to the mother: You might have dropped in to see what state the boy was in. 6. The mother to the father (the next day): I don't like the boy's state. Perhaps we had better call the doctor again?
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