Make up sentences of your own with verbs and expressions demanding Gerund to be followed after them

After

Of

Consulting a traumatologist.

Read, translate and learn a dialogue by heart.

(Two support workers carry in a stretcher with a young man on it.)

Surgeon: Well, what’s the matter with you?

Patient: You see, I’ve just fallen and I am afraid I’ve broken my leg.

S: Wait a minute. The nurse will help you undress and I’ll examine your leg.

P. Thank you, Doctor. But the pain is so strong that I can hardly bear it.

S. Well, let me see your leg. It seems to me there is no fracture. I suppose it’s just a bad injury. But to make sure you should have your leg X-rayed.

P. All right, Doctor.

Some time later

P. Doctor, here is my X-ray film.

S. I am very glad for you. As I’ve supposed you’ve no fracture, but there is a crack and a bad injury. We shall put a plaster cast and I’m going to prescribe a sedative for you. Besides, you need absolute rest. You’ll be taken to your place in an ambulance and you should stay in bed for 10 days. Then you’ll come for a check-up.

P. Thank you very much, Doctor. Good-bye.

S. Good-bye.

Additional grammar and vocabulary exercises:

1. Find and continue a list of other adjectives followed by prepositions. It is preferable to have them in the sentences.

About: pleasedabout,seriousabout, sorry about ………

At: angry at, good at…..

By: bored by, shocked by…

For: famous for, late for, ready for….

From: absent from, safe from….

In: experienced in, interested in….

Of: afraid of, fond of, full of…..

On: keen on…

To: attentive to, kind to, married to…

With: angry with, annoyed with….

2. Do you know what instruments you use are called in English? Read the descriptions and try to guess. The first has been done as an example for you.

wheelchair, thermometer, scalpel, stethoscope, forceps, syringe, stretcher.

1. wheelchair - a chair with wheels in which an invalid can sit and move around.

2.----------------a small sharp pointed knife used in surgery.

3.----------------a tube with a plunger which slides inside it, forcing the contents out through a needle.

4.----------------a folding bed, with handles, on which an injured person can be carried by two people.

5. ---------------two earpieces connected to a tube and a metallic disc, used to listen to sounds inside the body.

6.----------------a device used for measuring temperature.

7.-----------------an instrument similar to a pair of scissors, used for holding and pulling

3. Substitute the Subordinate clauseby Gerund with prepositions:

1. She thought that she would be admitted to the hospital for the week. 2. I thought I would come and see the doctor tomorrow. 3. I thought I would administer antibiotic therapy but it appeared that she had an allergy for drugs. 4. We thought that we would be able to visit our grandmother in the hospital that afternoon but fortunately she had been discharged before we came.

1. When she graduated from the Medical University in the capital, she returned home to practise as a stomatologist. 2. The analyses were taken, the amount of white blood cells was increased and the physician came to conclusion to administer antibiotic therapy. 3. Theprofessor introduced himself and then he started his first lecture at the beginning of the academic year. 4. The GP made a referral letter and sent the patient to a consultant in secondary care.

To accuse of; to agree to; to approve of; to be afraid of; to congratulate on; to depend on; to dream of; to feel like; to give up the idea of; to insist on; to look forward to; to object to; to persist on; to prevent from; to succeed in; to suspect of; to thank for; to think of;

5. Read, translate into your own language and put sentences in the following order: a) Participle b) Gerund c) Verbal Noun;

1. The driving wheel of the wheelchair was broken. 2. Lying in a stretcher, the patient passed many wards. 3. Having had an accident by a passing car, the man was immediately taken to the hospital.4. Travelling is a pleasant way of improving your English. 5. It is no use crying after being injected. 6. Looking at this man, the doctor recognized having met him many years ago in this department. 7. Having passed the blood and urine analyses, the patient returned to his ward. 8. The cleaning of the wards was done by clinical support workers. 9. The students found the reading and studying of patients’ history cases rather difficult at first.

10. He spent much time on the reading and translating of English texts.

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