Upward Bound: First year. Воробьева М.Г - 43 стр.

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PHONETIC EXERCISES
Ex. 1. Transcribe, translate and learn the following words and
word combinations.
treatment, disease, symptom, nervous, imaginable, to examine,
pulse, tongue, medicine, invalid, to cure, indifferent, to encourage,
practice, patient, complaint, temperature, prescription, pharmacy,
chemist, incident, physician, to doubt, appetite, cough, to breathe,
thorough, examination, stomach, to unfasten, throat, to worry.
Ex. 2. Look up the following words in the dictionary and learn
their pronunciation and spelling.
measles tnsillitis diphtheria
cancer scarlet fever turberculosis
pneumonia insomnia indigestion
Ex. 3. Practice reading the following words paying attention to the
pronunciation of the first sound [I].
recover remains encourage
deny prescription examine
department expect depend
relieved result pretend
Ex. 4. Read the dialogue according to the given melody.
A: Is that the hospital?
B: Yes.
A: I want to ask about Mr Smart, who is in the sick-room at
the moment, I believe. I imagine he isn’t fit to come to the
phone himself; I just wanted to ask how he was.
B: He is doing quite well, defenitely on the mend.
A: Thanks very much. I am glad to know he is getting all right.
B: Oh, yes, he is getting on quite nicely.
A: Tell him I am glad he is making good progress. Good-bye.
B: Good-bye.
VOCABULARY
Learn the following words and word combinations:
I. DISEASE, ILLNESS
disease — áîëåçíü, çàáîëåâàíèå