BODY SYSTEMS: THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM

Module I. Learning to Read and Understand a Special Text

Task 1

A. Compose the sentence from the jumbled words given below.

Bones/functions/muscles/life/and/essential to/together/to perform/work.

B. Do you know any quantitative characteristics of the human body?

Choose the right answer. If you do not know the answer, you may find information on the Internet.

1. Muscles make up . of the body weight in humans. a) 20%; b) 30%; c) 35-40%.

2. There are over ... skeletal muscles in the human body.

a) 450; b) 650; c) 850.

3. The human body has . litres of blood. a) 5; b) 7; c) 9.

Task 2

Work with a dictionary and define what part of speech the given words are (in the dictionary notations "adj", "n", "v" stand for adjective, noun, and verb, respectively).

Example: muscle n [mʌsl] - мышца

contraction, fibre, fuel, movement, smooth, supply, voluntary. C. Read and translate the following international words: automatically, chemical, electricity, energy, human, impulse, liter,

mechanical, microscopic, musculoskeletal, nerve, physiotherapy,

progressive, protein, risk, signal.

Task 3

Translate the word combinations (n+n) given below: Example:

1) animal starch

2) body movements

3) body weight

4) muscle fibres

5) muscle contraction

6) nerve impulses

7) nerve signals

8) organ systems.

Task 4

Note on translation (III)/Комментарий по переводу

A. Study some Anglo-American Units of Measurement and their equivalents in the Metrical System.

B. Translate the sentences into Russian and change Anglo-American Units into Metrical Units.

1. The head weighs about 8,8 lb.

2. The average adult body contains about 70 pints of water.

3. In the 1960s, paleontologists discovered a pair of giant arms in Mongolia. The length of each was eight feet. The claws were ten inches long. Paleontologists called the animal Deinocheirus (meaning «terrible hand»), but the body of this animal is a mystery. Some scientists think that it was a huge animal - almost 40 feet long - which lived 70 million years ago.