XVIII. Explain the pronunciation of the letter combinations in bold type: thousand, which, with, them, chart, phase, show, chill.

XIX. Explain the pronunciation of the suffix -ion in the following:

Conclusion, function, formation, occasion, eruption, discussion, occlusion, production, contraction, invasion.

XX. Give full answers to the following questions:

1. Can you cure a disease? 2. Do you consider that you will pass your examinations successfully? 3. Must you remember all Latin anatomical terms? 4. Is the word ʽskeleton̓ an anatomical term?

XXI. Put questions to the words in bold type:

We need this particular time for the experiment. 2. We entered the Institute last year. 3. Sometimes professors deliver lectures at the clinic.

He is in poor health. 5. We must give all our knowledge and abilities to people.

XXII. Define the parts of speech of the words in bold type:

Where do you study? 2. The Institute where I study has different departments. 3. When are people in good health? 4. People are in good health when they take care of it. 5. Who entered the Institute several months ago?

My sister who entered the Institute two years ago studies successfully.

What are you? 8. What prominent anatomist do you know? 9. What do you remember well? 10. I remember well what the professor told us at the last lecture. 11. Which month is January? 12. The month which comes after April is May. 13. How do you speak English? 14. We know how he speaks English.

XXIII. Translate into English:

1. На какой предмет вы должны в особенности обращать внимание на первом курсе? 2. К сожалению (unfortunately), врачи еще не могут вылечить больных от некоторых заболеваний. 3. Я думаю, что мой друг может сдать экзамен по биологии на отлично, так как у него отличные способности к этому предмету. 4. Вы должны заниматься спортом, чтобы быть здоровым. 5. Хирургия является одним из многих предметов, который может представлять особый интерес для студентов.

XXIV. Try to understand the meaning of the words in bold type from the context. Memorize them:

1. She has a high temperature. It is 39.4°C. 2. Now we study at a higher school, that is at the Institute. 3. In six years we shall get higher education.

XXV. Read text D. Make the plan. Retell the text.

Text D. The First Medical Students in Russia

A week ago I read a very good book by Professor Vladimir Kovanov who was the vice-president of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. The title of the book is “The Calling For”^*.

Prof. V.V. Kovanov is a prominent scientist, a specialist with deep knowledge and great experience in the field of surgery. He is a well-known public figure and a person of great culture.

Vladimir Kovanov entered the Medical Faculty of Moscow University in 1927. Already before that time the young Soviet Republic needed badly its own (собственная) working intelligentsia. A special decree on the organisation of public education in Soviet Russia was adopted in 1918.

According to this decree education in the higher schools became free of charge. The students got stipends and could live in hostels. This decree meant that the children of the proletarians could enter the higher schools.

The preparatory faculties which the Soviet Republic organized during its first years helped the sons and daughters of the proletarian families to enter the higher schools without taking the examinations. A.V. Lunacharsky said that preparatory faculties (“rabfacks”) were the “fire ladders” (пожарные лестницы) which gave the proletarian young people the possibility to get higher education.

Prof. Kovanov writes that in his time those young people who really cared to be doctors studied in the Medical Faculty. The students worked hard, all day long they were ready to dissect corpses, to learn Latin terms and to make different analyses in chemical laboratories.

I consider that it is necessary for all medical students to read this book because it will increase the knowledge of our future profession. It will help us to understand and love our future work.

XXVI. Pick out the sentences corresponding to the contents of the text:

The first preparatory faculties helped the proletarian young people to get medical education. 2. In 1927 V. Kovanov entered the Medical Faculty of Moscow University. 3. The first preparatory faculties helped the proletarian young people to get higher education.

* Кованов В. В. Призвание. - М., 1970.

LESSON 6

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Запомните:

1. Буквосочетание air обычно читается [eə]: chair [tʃeə] стул; кафедра.

2. Буквосочетания ear, eer читаются [iə]: appear [ə'piə] появляться, казаться; engineer [,enei'niə] инженер.

3. Буквосочетание ear перед согласной читается [3:]: early ['3:li]

Рано.

I. Прочтите:

1) air, hair, pair, chair, impair;

2) hear, clear, near, ear, dear, steer, smear, deer;