III. Vocabulary and Speech Exercises

I. Give the Ukrainian equivalents of the following from the text.

health care products; to prescribe medications; to follow strict regulations; to require a prescription from a medical professional; low-strength antibiotic ointment; herbal supplement; to require refrigeration; to destroy the activity of drugs; boxes, parcels, ampoules, tubes, different pills and tablets; injections; treatment of eye diseases; to lose potency with time; qualified pharmacy technician; proper dosage amount; first aid supplies.

II. Match the synonyms

• chemist’s, medicine, doctor, pain reliever, cold medications, to store, refrigeration, to require, rapidly, amber, potency, to dispense, expiration, qualified, interaction, supplement.

• termination, cold remedies, cooperation, effectiveness, pharmacy, yellow, drug, additive, to keep, competent, cooling, to write out, medical professional, to need, analgesic, quickly.

III. Say if the following statement are true or false

1. A chemist’s or pharmacy is often the only place you can buy most kinds of clothes and furniture.

2. Over-the-Counter medications do not require a prescription or orders from a medical professional.

3. Herbal supplements and vitamins are not considered OTC medications and are sold following the doctor's orders.

4. Products for internal use are stored together with products for external use.

5. Smallpox vaccines lose their potency very rapidly in room temperature.

6. There are labels of five colours: green, blue, orange, yellow and pink.

7. Labels of pink colour are drugs used for treatment of cardiac diseases.

8. Medications bearing an expiration date are not dispensed or distributed beyond the expiration date.

9. At the chemist’s medicines are distributed according to the psychological effect.

VI. Fill in the gaps with the correct prepositions Chemist’s

You must be familiar (with/to) today’s air-conditioned chemist’s where you can buy medicines. But this was not so till (about/since) a century ago. “A dark, smelly dingy room full (in/of) huge glass bottles (with/from) body parts (at/of) different animals preserved, a weighing scale, and some other bottles (at/with) red and yellow coloured liquid…” this is what a chemist’s (in/at) the 19th century looked like. The world’s first chemist’s was opened (at\in) Baghdad (in/since) AD 950. It sold herbs (as/like) medicines. Later a proper chemist’s was opened (in/on) Europe, which sold medicines (on/for) prescriptions. Doctors wrote the method (for/of) making a specific medicine and the chemist would prepare it (in/on) his shop! Medicines prepared (with/by) chemists were substandard. So, doctors decided to seek patients (for/to) their medicines. This was the beginning (in/of) modern medicines, which are packed and can be bought across the counter.

V. Read and dramatize the dialogues

Customer: Hello. I wonder if you can help me. I’ve got a bad cold and sore throat.

Can you give me something for it?

Pharmacist: Yes, of course. Are you allergic to aspirin?

Customer: No, I am not.

Pharmacist: Ok, you can take these three times a day.

Customer: Thank you. Could I have some tissues as well?

Pharmacist: Sure. Anything else?

Customer: No, that’s all. Thanks’.

Customer: Hello. I'd like a toothbrush, please.

Pharmacist: Nylon or natural bristle?

Customer: Nylon, please.

Pharmacist: Hard, soft or medium?

Customer: Medium, please.

Pharmacist: What colour would you like?

Customer: It doesn’t matter really… Oh, white’s, Ok.

Pharmacist: There you are.

Customer: Good Morning, Sir. I have a prescription from my doctor.

Pharmacist: Would you rather have this medicine in tablets or in syrup?

Customer: I find it easier to swallow syrup.

Pharmacist: Please mind the precise dosage: 1 coffee spoon 3 times a day just before

eating.

Customer: Is there any contraindications?

Pharmacist: You might be sleepy so please be careful in case you drive.