I N F E R T I L I T Y

P R E – T E X T A S S I G N M E N T

Exercise 1. Practice the pronunciation:

Experience [iks'piəriəns], hypothalamic [haipoѲə'læmik], distinguish [dis'tiŋgwi∫], genitourinary ['dʒenitəjuərinəri], repair [ripeə], accumulate [ə'kju:mjuleit], chromosome ['krouməsoum], correlation [kоrilei∫n], technique [tek'ni:k], exposure [iks'pouʒə], adequate ['ædikwit], hypothyroidism [haipo'Ѳairoidizm], diaper ['daiəpə], caffeine ['kæfii:n].

Exercise 2. Topic vocabulary:

pregnancy - беременность

conceive - забеременеть

unreversable - необратимый

irradicate - устранять

decline - спадать, сокращать

sibling - кровный родственник, сибс, родной брат (сестра)

genitourinary – мочеполовой

repair - восстанавливать

correlation – взаимосвязь, взаимодействие

environmental hazards – вредные факторы окружающей среды

discord - раздоры

anxiety – беспокойство

Exercise 3. Find antonyms to the following words:

Gradually, to increase, to diminish, mild, internal, onset, to accomplish, to improve, physical, benign, to doubt, to leave

(to be sure, malignant, mental, to come, rapidly, to rise, to decrease, external, to rise, severe, to impair, to begin).

Exercise 4. Translate the following sentences. Pay attention to the Objective Infinitive Construction:

1. We know penicillin to be effective in treating inflammations.

2. Medical personnel know bacteria to be killed by boiling.

3. The surgeon ordered the nurse to bring the patient with open bleeding wound on the leg to the dressing room.

4. The students watched the surgeon make a midline abdominal incision with a scalpel.

5. We know Pirogov to be the first in removing cancer of the mammary gland.

Exercise 5. Change the following complex sentences into simple ones using the Objective Infinitive Construction:

1. Pasteur showed that fermentation was due to living organism.

2. He found that lactic fermentation was caused by bacteria.

3. Many health officers believed that it was necessary to pasteurize milk.

4. Scientists consider polio virus enters the body through the mouth or nose.

5. The physician told the patient’s mother that the boy should remain in bed for at least five days.

Exercise 6. Read and translate the text: