V. Reading Activities. - What do you know about the structure of Nervous System?

a) Pre-reading Stage.

- What do you know about the structure of Nervous System?

- Why is it important for you to study this topic?

b) While-reading Stage.

- Do the text on the theme (Task 3 p. 83-84). Make up a plan of it.

c) Post-reading Stage.

- Choose the appropriate answer to the questions:

1. Are neurons of macroscopic or of microscopic structure?

2. What part of nervous system is the centre of regulation and coordination of body activities?

3. What do meninges consist of?

4. What is the function of acethylcholine?

5. What external receptors do you know?

6. How do we call receptive branching fibers of the neurons?

7. What tissue covers axons?

8. What is the function of cerebrospinal fluid?

9. Why do doctors sometimes do the lumber punctures?

10. What does hypothalamus regulate?

(a – brain; b- three layers of connective tissue; c – help in the transmission of nerve impulses; d – taste buds, the skin, etc.; e – dendrites; f – microscopic; g – to protect the brain and the spinal cord; h – a myelin sheath; i – sleep, appetite, temperature; j – for diagnoses or for decreasing the pressure on brain)

- Make up your own questions to the text and ask your partner.

- Arrage the predicates in the order of their appearance in the text:

Determined, surround, reaches, are covered, consists, carries, depends, passes, receive, contain.