A medical check-up

These days I have a cold. All symptoms of it: I have a headache, a fever, a runny nose :( and a sore throat. Before taking any mixture it is important to get a medical check-up. And I suppose this little exercise will help you to learn  very nesessary vocabulary.

Read and translate the text, use verbs in brackets in correct forms.

I want to get a medical check-up. So I go to my doctor and he ..... (to give) me a complete examination. The nurse (to lead) me into a one of examination rooms. I (to put) on a hospital gown. Dr. Setton (to come) in, (to shake) my hand and (to say) "hello". I (to stand) on his scale so he can (to measure) my height and my weight. he (to take) my pulse. The he (to take) my blood pressure. After he takes my blood pressure, he  (to take) some blood for a blood analysis. he (to examine) my eyes, ears, nose, and throat. He (to listen) to my heart with a stethoscope. Then he (to take) a chest X-ray and (to do) a cardiogram (ECG or EKG). After the check-up I (to go) home and (to wait) for Dr.Setton's call. Dr.Setton (to call) in the afternoon and (to say) "Stop worrying! Your blood analysis is excellent". He is a very good doctor.

(из Голицинский "Грамматика. Сборник упражнений")

Now try to find English equevalents for the words below:

медицинский осмотр, сделать флюорографию, артериальное давление, кушетка, анализ крови, измерить пульс, сделать кардиограмму, полное обследование, весы, смотровая комната. измерить рост, взять кровь на анализ, слушать сердцебиение стетоскопом, измерить давление.

Misspelled Words

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You can choose a word wich spelling you want to remember, look through its definition and then try to make up a sentence with it. Using Ginger you will find out if your spelling or understanding of the word is right.

For the first year students the best way to get ready to final test

The link below is the best way to revise the material:
www.multimedia-english.com

Emotions in English

Take into account that feelings, emotions and various types of state are uncountable nouns in English!

Feelings, emotions: anger, anxiety, calm, compassion, confidence, courage, curiosity, despair, determination, disappointment, enthusiasm, envy, excitement, forgiveness, happiness, hatred, jealousy, kindness, joy, love, patience, pleasure, sadness, pride, sensitivity, sincerity, sorrow, sympathy, tolerance, trust, uncertainty.	Чувства, эмоции: гнев, беспокойство, спокойствие, сострадание, уверенность, храбрость, любопытство, отчаяние, решимость, разочарование, энтузиазм, зависть, волнение, прощение, счастье, ревность, доброта, радость, любовь, терпение, удовольствие, печаль, гордость, чувствительность, искренность, горе, сочувствие, терпимость, доверие, неуверенность.
Various types of state: health, sleep, silence, laughter, stress, sanity, insanity, motherhood, childhood, youth, old age.	Различные виды состояния: здоровье, сон, молчание, смех, стресс, здравомыслие, безумие, материнство, детство, юность, старость.

111 mistakes in English spelling

Известно, что английское правописание отличается особой сложностью. Написание многих слов нужно просто запомнить наизусть.

Стелла Коттрел приводит следующие английские слова, с правописании которых англичане чаще всего допускают ошибки. Думаю, что этот список можно использовать для самопроверки.

Приведенные английские слова мы используем достаточно часто в самых разных областях жизни.

A - accessible, accessory, accommodation, across, acquaintance, acquiesce, acquire, address, aggressive, all right, amateur, analogy, analyse (Can you analyse this data?), analysis (Make an analysis of the facts), appendices, appropriate, argument.
B - belief (my belief), believe (I believe), beneficial, benefited, business.
C - catalogue, category, changeable, commitment, committed, committee, conscientious, conscious, criticism.
D - deferred, definite, definitely, discriminatory.
E - equipped, embarrass, exaggerate, excellent, existence.
F - February, focused, focusing, foreign, forty, fourten, fulfil, fulfilled.
G - gauge, government, grateful, guarantee.
H - height, honorary, humorous.
I - immediately, immovable, inconsistent, independent, irresponsible.
L - laboratory, liaise, lose (I don’t want to lose my bag), loose (The knot is too loose).
M - maintenance, manageable, manoeuvre, miscellaneous.
N - naive, necessary, negligible, noticeable.
O - occasionally, occur, occurred, omission, omitted.
P - parallel, privileged, probably, procedure, professional, psychological.
R - receipt, receive, recommend, referred, relevant, repetition, reputation, resistant.
S - scene, secretary, separate, similar, skilful, skilfully, social, successfully, syllabus, synthesis (It was a good synthesis), synthesise (He synthesised the main point).
T - technicality, temporary, theoretical, through.
U - unnecessary, until, usually.
V - veterinary.

Comparisons

Folow the link:
edu.glogster. Comparisons

More about the theme: comparison

Possessive case of nouns

Explanation of using Possessive case of nouns in English see on www.eng-tutor-online.ru and on www.native-english.ru
Try exercises:
english.lingolia.com

For the Beginners. Possessive Pronouns

We already know about possesive adjectives: my, your,his, her,its, our, their. 
Possessive adjective describes a noun: My car is new.

Possesive pronouns are mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
Possessive pronoun takes place of a noun: This car is mine. 


Compaire pairs of sentences below:

My book is large. (adjective, describes book)
Yours is small. (pronoun, takes the place of noun)

Your car is green. (adjective, describes car)
Mine is red. (pronoun, takes the place of noun)

Practice using of possessive pronouns:

Telling the time

Hi! Now it is time to know how to tell the time in English. Follow the link bellow:
edu.glogster.com. Telling the time

Present Simple

Here there is a video about how to form Pereset Simple. Sorry, it is not of a good quality but nevertheless I ask you to watch it and to do two exercises.

The video below is about three common cases when we are to use Present Simple. Do exercises.

There + to be

Following the link below you can make clear how to use "there + to be" in Present Simple
englishtexts.ru

Much and many

This video is for the first-year students.We start learning Unit "My comfortable house" so we have to know some grammar material. This video is about differences between using of the words "much" and "many".The words to understand the video properly: countable - исчисляемое, uncountable - неисчисляемое.

Adjectives

This link is for those who want to try the course about adjectives. Just click the picture.

How to stop misspelling

Follow the link bellow to get visual explanation that hepls to stop misspelling of the words:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling