Post-text assignments

Exercise 6. Look through the text and answer the questions.

1. What is the function of the skeletal system?

2. What is the function of the muscular systems?

3. What is carried by the blood-stream?

4. What is the function of the respiratory system?

5. What does the endocrine system serve for?

6. Where are the hormones produced?

Exercise 7. Agree or contradict the following:

1. The skeletal system serves to move us about.

2. The circulatory system consists of the heart, the kidneys and blood vessels.

3. The main function of the respiratory system is to convey oxygen to the lungs.

4. The endocrine system consists of a number of vessels.

5. The urine is stored in the urinary bladder.

Exercise 8. Translate the following sentences:

1. Основная функция скелетной системы - структурная.

2. Система пищеварения состоит из пищеварительного канала и нескольких желёз.

3. Основная функция дыхательной системы - переносить кислород в лёгкие и удалять....

4. Эндокринная система служит для регулирования многообразных видов деятельности.

5. Два мочеточника перемещают мочу из почек.

6. Эндокринная система состоит из ряда желез по всему телу.

Exercise 9. Make the sentences interrogative:

1. The chief function of the skeletal system is structural.

2. The respiratory system consists of the lungs and associated structures.

3. The cellular wastes are carried away by the blood stream.

4. There are 9 main systems in the body.

5. The endocrine system serves to regulate various activities.

Exercise 10. Make the sentences negative:

1. The circulatory system consists of the heart, blood vessels and blood.

2. The nutrients, oxygen and special substances are carried by the blood stream.

3. The digestive system includes the alimentary canal and a number of associated glands.

4. The air can enter the blood stream.

5. The urine is stored in the bladder.

Exercise 11. Describe in English what is:

a) urine

b) nutrients

c) lungs

d) carbon dioxide

Exercise 12. Remember the symptoms. Match the following symptoms of disease with their definitions.

1. rash a. difficult or infrequent emptying of the bowels

2. constipation b. weariness from bodily or mental exertion

3. diarrhea c. feeling as if everything were turning round

4. dizziness d. a burning sensation in the stomach from indigestion

5. fatigue e. feeling of sickness as caused by bad food

6. fever f. inability to sleep

7. heartburn g. patch of tiny red spots on the skin

8. inflammation.. h. a redness and swelling attended with heat, pain

9. insomnia i. yellowness of the skin and the whites of the eyes

10. jaundice j. too frequent and too watery emptying of the bowels

11. nausea k. condition of the body with temperature higher than

usual

THE SKELETON

Exercise 2. Active Vocabulary:

bone – кістка spine (spinal column) – спинний хребет, хребетний стовп muscle – мускул; м'яз rib – ребро lung – легеня heart – серце skull – череп brain – мозок bone marrow – кістковий мозок blood cell – кров’яна клітина marrow cavity – кістково-мозкова порожнина axial – осьовий appendicular – апендикулярний cranial – черепний facial – лицевий

chest - грудна клітка breastbone – грудина vertebra (pl. vertebrae) – хребець cervical – шійний thoracic – грудний lumbar – поперековий coccyx – куприк extremity – кінцівка thigh (femur) – стегно pelvis – таз forearm – передпліччя joint – суглоб cartilage - хрящ ligament – зв'язка tendon – сухожилля stapes – стремінце, слухова кістка

Exercise 3. Translate the word combinations into your language:

the main support for the body; give shape; sit up straight; protect the organs; provide protection; store calcium and fat; yellow bone marrow; red bone marrow; inside the marrow cavity of bones; three basic parts; axial skeleton; appendicular skeleton; cranial and facial parts; comprised of bones; cervical vertebrae; thoracic vertebrae; sacral vertebrae; 12 pairs of ribs; the upper extremity; the lower extremity; in an adult; total body weight; vary between individuals; newborn babies; fuse together.

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