- •Unit 1
- •1. Read the text, translate it into Russian. At the dental polyclinic
- •Vocabulary Extension
- •2. Study the following.
- •1. Rooms
- •3. Chairs
- •4. Dental and Medical Specialists
- •3. Match the terms with their definitions.
- •4. Find word-partnerships and translate them into Russian.
- •8. Complete the sentences using the clues:
- •9. Answer the questions to the text.
- •10. Study the following.
- •11. Read and translate the text. Pick out and analyze the ing-forms. Make an abstract of the article using the following phrases:
- •1. Read and translate the text. The dentist
- •3. Pronounce the proper names.
- •8. Fill in the prepositions if necessary.
- •10. Choose the correct form (the ing-form or Participle II).
- •The historic background of dentistry
- •1. Derive the meaning of the following international words.
- •2. Study the following.
- •3. Pick out all the ing-forms and Participles II from the text. State their
- •4. Translate into English using the words from the text. Pay attention to the use of the subordinate clauses.
- •5. Supply the prepositions if necessary.
- •6. Imagine that you are going to make up an aptitude test for a prospective dentist. What items would you include to estimate a person's aptitude. Give your reasons.
- •7. Answer the questions to the text.
- •2. Study the following.
- •1. Derive the meaning of the international words.
- •3. Choose the sentence which describes the gist of the 1st and 2nd paragraphs best of all. Give your reasons.
- •Instruments
- •9. Speak about:
- •2. Give the Russian equivalents of combinations.
- •3. Match the words with their definitions.
- •4. Say what specialist do you have to see if you have one of the following defects or diseases:
- •5. Speak about a patient's complaints and sufferings according to the following plan:
- •7. Describe stomatological sciences matching a word in the 1st column with a
- •10. Translate the sentences into Russian. Find the infinitive as an adverbial modifier of purpose.
- •11. Replace the ing-form by the infinitive constructions.
- •1. Match the word-combinations in the 1st column with the phrases in the 2nd to describe the duties of the staff of a dental polyclinic.
- •2. Match the words and word-combinations in the three columns to say where these actions are performed.
- •3. Answer the questions:
- •4. Answer the questions:
- •6. Read and translate the text. Divide it into paragraphs. Suggest a title for each paragraph. Give your reasons for it.
- •8. Choose the -ing-form or the infinitive.
- •1. Study the following.
- •2. Use the word-combinations given below to speak about:
- •3. Read and translate the text.
- •8. Speak on:
- •9. Describe the dental services using the words given below.
- •10. Speak about:
- •11. Fill in the missing words in the required form:
- •Caries and its treatment
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Give the Russian equivalents of the English words.
- •3. Study the following words.
- •4. Match the words with their definitions.
- •5. Match the opposites.
- •6. Fill in the prepositions.
- •The process of root canal treatment
- •1. Read and translate the text.
- •2. Match the words with their definitions.
- •3. Find in the text the synonyms to the following words:
- •4. Fill in the prepositions.
- •Find the infinitive constructions in the text, state their functions.
- •Make up a list of verbs and word-combinations denoting the actions carried out by a dentist performing root canal treatment. Say what the aim of each action is.
- •7. Choose the word which suits best.
- •8. Choose the correct tense-form (active or passive).
- •9. Answer the questions to the text:
- •What are the main procedures of root canal treatment? What instruments do these actions involve?
- •Make an abstract of the text about root canal treatment using phrases:
1) The things which are not allowed to bite or chew and why; 2) The things which can stain or damage your teeth; 3) The harmful habit (bruxism) which can wear down your teeth; 4) What it is advisable to get? What for? 5) The sources of fluoride; 6) The warning signs of oral cancer.
8. Speak on:
What a person must do to keep his/her mouth clean;
What actions can help a person to keep his/her teeth and gums healthy;
What means of caries prevention you know;
What a person must never do.
9. Describe the dental services using the words given below.
to include, to deal with, to consist of, to perform, to carry out, etc. Types of Dental Services
therapeutic services
examination gums treatment teeth drilling of the oral cavity filling holes stopping cracks sealing cares
surgical services extraction of teeth opening abscesses giving anaesthesia operations on/for tumours abscesses injuries fractures traumas
cleft lip and palate
orthopaedic services
making replacement
prostheses
restorations
bridges
crowns
false teeth
artificial jaws
full dentures
partial dentures
10. Speak about:
Your visit to a therapeutist:
a) your complaints; b) the complaints of your friend, she/he told you about after her/his visit to a dentist; c) about the actions and instruments applied by the dentist for the examination and treatment of your friend's teeth and yours.
11. Fill in the missing words in the required form:
Inside, to pull, toothache, fogless mirror, twist, to ring, to ache, syringe, to worry, gum, to have to, injection, dentist.
I had had a toothache for several days, but just didn't have enough courage to go to the ... . As a matter of fact I went twice, but just as I got on the doorstep and
was going to ring the bell, the . seemed to have gone away, so I went home again. But at last I had to go back, and this time I . the bell and was shown into a waiting-room.
There were a number of magazines there, and I had just got into the middle of an exciting story when a maid came in to say Mr Puller was ready to see me. I'll ... wait for the next toothache to finish that story!
Well, I came into the surgery and he told me to sit in a chair, and then he had a look at the . of my mouth. He put a little . on a long handle inside my mouth and said, "I'm afraid we can't save that one, it will have to come out. I'll give you an
So he filled a ... with liquid. I felt a little prick on the ... and that was all. Then he waited for a minute or so. Then he took an instrument, got hold of my tooth, gave a then a quick and the tooth was out. He said, "There's the tooth, a very nasty one".
"May I have the tooth, please?" I said. "It has . me a lot last week, and so now I am going to put it on my dressing table and watch it .".