Description of a Pharmacy. The present manual is intended for pharmaceutical, pediatric, general medicine and medico-biological departments of medical universities

Preface

The present manual is intended for pharmaceutical, pediatric, general medicine and medico-biological departments of medical universities. It embraces the topics of drugs used in medicine, the structure of the chemist’s shop, drug annotations and other topics related to the sphere of verbal communication of pharmacists and doctors. The book also includes a series of exercises for developing various language skills necessary for improving both language use and extra linguistic awareness of the students.

Each unit of the manual consists of a text and a number of exercises to practice lexical and grammatical structures used in the texts. The texts are provided with comments on difficult points of vocabulary. The book is intended to help students to understand authentic articles, books and annotations in this specialty, to build up professional terminological vocabulary, to increase their extra linguistic awareness and to develop oral speech habits. The manual is also provided with Grammar Notes and Vocabulary Extensions of the texts.

Unit 1

Description of a Pharmacy

Grammar: Present Simple: Active Voice, Passive Voice

1.а) Прочтите слова из Vocabulary List вслух.

б) Изучите список слов и укажите слова, называющие:

- инвентарь аптеки; - медицинские средства.