Post-reading tasks

Sounds and spelling

IV. Pronounce and spell the words:

Seedy, liver, symptom, diagnosis, indolent, horror, cease, crawl, decrepit, scourge, pharmacology, ague, alphabetically, invidious, diphtheria, disinclination, wreck, restore, appetite, zymosis.

V. Transcribe and translate the words:

To circulate, virulent, diagnosis, ailment, malady, idly, indolently, scourge, ague, cholera, diphtheria, conscientiously, malignant, gout, disinclination, acquisition, decrepit, invidious, premonitory, chum, unanimous, circular, typhoid fever, acute, suggestion, family-psysicianary, charge-sheet.

Word Formation

VI. From what stems are the following words formed? Give derivatives using word-building suffixes and prefixes:

disinclination, alphabetically, complications, listlessness, treatment, conscientiously, cowardly, skulking, advertisement, idly, fearful, devastating, reservation, to refill, acquisition.

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VII. Give the three forms of the verbs:

to impel, to touch, to freeze, to plunge, to find, to sift, to plod, to hurt, to prevail, to restore, to seize, to induce, to pat, to stick, to shut, to clutch, to pass, to hit, to refill, to light, to modify.

Vocabulary Development

VIII. Sort out synonyms:

symptoms, to change, particular, offensive, skulking, to pass away, disease, to reflect, commonplace, treatment, to modify, invidious, scandalous, disgraceful, lazy, remedy, ordinary, to die, unwillingness, malady, to perish, especial, ailment, indications, idle, medicine, peculiar, typical, disinclination.

IX. Give definitions of the following words using an English-English dictionary

a) circular, chum; fortnight; b) unanimous, devastating, virulent; c) to plunge, to sift, to plod.

X. Choose the appropriate definitions for the words in italics:

A – to restrict smb by making his/her development, progress or movement difficult;

В – getting smth or being given it;

С – 1) a plane, car or other vehicle which has been very badly damaged in an accident;

2) a person who is very unhealthy or exhausted;

D – an ailment of body or mind;

E – to begin doing smth;

F – 1) a whip for chastising people;

2) a person or a thing regarded as an instrument of punishment

Distemper, wreck, to commence, scourge, acquisition, to hamper,

XI. Look at the entry for the word "distemper" as it is given in Muller's Modern English-Russian Dictionary: Distemper: 1) собачья чума; 2) амер. душевное расстройство; 3) уст. беспорядок, волнение, смута.

What meaning or meanings of this polysemantic word are realized in the context of the extract under study?

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