Exercise 2.16. Complete the sentences using the Present Simple Tense. Translate the sentences into Russian:

1) He always (to ask) a lot of questions. 2) She often (to complain) of pain in her eyes. 3) They sometimes (to go) to a dentist. 4) His wife (to work) as a doctor here. 5) We always (to discuss) such problems. 6) They usually (to visit) their friends at the weekend. 7) I usually (to examine) patients in Room Five. 8) The students always (to do) such exercises at home. 9) The first-year students often (to translate) texts with a dictionary. 10) You often (to speak) too much. 11) Ann (to like) reading books about scientific research. 12) Sam and Kate usually (to visit) their parents in summer. 13) The teacher (to know) these students well.

Exercise 2.17. Use the verbs given in brackets in the Present Simple Tense. Make the sentences negative and interrogative.

1) The first-year students (to study) this subject. 2) They always (to discuss) such questions. 3) He (to like) to go to a dentist. 4) She (to want) to work there. 5) We (to play) computer games. 6) You often (to go) to the laboratory. 7) I (to see) patients on Wednesday. 8) Ann (to visit) her parents every weekend. 9) Sam (to like) to speak about it. 10) My friend (to call) me in the morning as a rule. 11) Kate and Jane (to know) these students. 12) The doctors (to know) the cause of my pain. 13) This patient often (to complain) of pain. 14) He always (to tell) the truth.

Exercise 2.18. Give the Past Simple forms of the verbs:

a) to get, to become, to mean, to read, to know, to tell, to be, to have, to do, to write, to go, to come, to make, to take, to begin, to pay, to understand, to teach, to see;

b) to increase, to want, to work, to plan, to answer, to apply, to occupy, to reply, to supply, to study.

Exercise 2.19. Put the following sentences into the Past Simple Tense using the words in the brackets:

1) He often asks me to help him (last year). 2) The first-year students attend lectures in Anatomy (last term). 3) She complains of pain in her upper tooth (two days ago). 4) They add new questions to all the tests (a month ago). 5) The University library supplies students with textbooks (last September). 6) They work 6 days a week (last month). 7) We live near the Medical University (10 years ago). 8) The doctor examines his patients in Room 20 (yesterday). 9) Ann visits her parents every weekend (last year).

Exercise 2.20. Use the correct form of the verbs in brackets:

1) I (to work) on a surgical ward. 2) Yesterday Boris (not to attend) the lectures in Anatomy and Histology. He (to be) at home. 3) We usually (to finish) at 12 o’clock. 4) She (to be) a nurse in a hospital two years ago. But now she (to be) an assistant in one of the hospital surgical wards. 5) I (to live) in Volgograd. I (to like) my university. We (to make) a lot of experiments. 6) Medical students (to study) intensively. 7) Many scientists (to become) interested in bacteriology. 8) The experiment (to start) four years ago. 9) Dental students (to receive) their education in a specialized dental school. 10) In Russia any training course for certified dental students (to last) for five academic years. 11) When I (to be) young, I (to want) to be a dentist. 12) We (to need) the knowledge we gain in our future work. 13) Tomorrow our classes (to begin) at 10 o’clock. 14) If you (to enter) the university, you (to take) exams twice a year.

Exercise 2.30. Use the verbs in brackets in the Future Simple Tense.

1) We (to be) there at 5o’clock tomorrow. 2) I think they (to study) Pathology for only next year. 3) Pete is ill. – I (to visit) him tomorrow. 4) Today she (to have) enough time to do her homework in the evening. 5) We are sure that doctors (to find) an effective treatment for this disease in the near future. 6) The students (to borrow) the textbooks from the library next week. 7) They (to learn) about diseased tissues in their pathology classes next term. 8) The doctor (to make) a diagnosis after a thorough examination of the patient next week. 9) It (to be) very cold tomorrow. 10) I think I (to finish) this work in two hours.

Exercise 2.31. Make the following sentences negative:

1) She worked at the X-ray department last year. 2) He usually studies hard. 3) Ann and Tom will meet at the weekends. 4) It takes him 30 minutes to get to the University. 5) She often walks past the operating theatre. 6) She did shift work yesterday. 7) I want to attend lectures in Anatomy.

Exercise 2.32. Ask general questions to the sentences:

1) The bones of the skull consist of cranial and facial parts. 2) The tongue is very flexible. 3) The students learn new words at the English classes. 4) The jaws consist of the maxilla and mandible. 5) She will examine the patients in several minutes. 6) They went to the dissecting-room yesterday.

Exercise 2.33. Make questions to the words in bold type:

1) We need this particular time for the experiment. 2) We entered the University last year. 3) The students learn new words at the English classes. 4) Sometimes professors deliver lectures at the clinic. 5) She studies at the Faculty of Dentistry. 6) We have the first practical class in the dissecting-room today.7) I am in the first year. 8) We study preclinical and clinical subjects during the whole course of training. 9) Students have some credit tests at the end of the semester. 10) She read some articles on this subject a week ago. 11) Yesterday he finished his experiment earlier than usual. 12) The doctor will fix the date of the operation in several minutes. 13) We had some difficulty with Inorganic Chemistry last semester. 14) Students take exams twice a year. 15) They completed some experiments yesterday.

Exercise 2.34. Put all types of questions to the following sentences.

1) She examined her first patient in the dental clinic yesterday. 2) He feels tired after his classes. 3) This semester we study some premedical subjects. 4) Last month they had practical classes at the Department of Therapy. 5) The researchers will finish their experiment in a week. 6) The first-year students study many anatomical terms. 7) Our students came to the University to listen to the lecture on bones. 8) During the first two years students master laboratory sciences. 9) Medical students learn the functions of the body theoretically and through laboratory experiments at Physiology classes. 10) On Friday my brother went to the clinic to help the nurse.