IV. Reading Activities

a) Pre-reading Stage.

- What do you know about Endocrine system and its physiology?

- What do you expect to learn from the text?

b) While-reading Stage.

- Read and comprehend the text (Task 2 p. 112-114). Try to guess the meaning of the words you don’t know. Define the main idea of the text.

c) Post-reading Stage.

- Make up 10 questions to the text. Ask your partner.

- What’s missing:

1. … produces hormone called somatotropin, which causes the growth.

2. The glands are located in different regions of ….

3. Mammary, …, …, … and … glands belong to exocrine ones.

4. Overproduction of somatotropin in childhood leads to ….

5. … are situated on top of each kidney.

6. The hormone secreted by … gland is called thyroxine.

7. Thyroxine intensifies the expenditure of carbohydrates … and ….

8. … gland secretes metatonin which affects skin pigmentation.

- Make notes under the following headlines and get ready to comment upon their content:

· the structure of the endocrine system;

· the pituitory gland;

· the thyroid gland;

· Parathyroid glands;

· Pancreas;

· the adrenal glands;

· the pineal gland;

· the thymus gland.

V. Speaking.

- Support or challenge the following statements (Task 4 p. 115) using expressions:

That’s right No, that is wrong

Quite right That’s not true

That’s just so Quite on the contrary

But they can