unnecessary noise when the patient NURSE arrives. The night nurse realizes that the symptom of lower abdominal 2. READING UNIT pain without any other information could mean a veriety of conditions. A. THERESIA WAS ADMITTED WITH AN The doctor arrives and Christ is ACUTE PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE asked to sit in the waiting room while his wife is examined. Thresia was admitted to the When the doctor has completed Gynaecology ward at 2 a.m. she had talking a history and doing a been feeling unwell and had physical examination he diagnoses experienced lower alxlominal pain Thresia’s pain as the result of an for several days, but on this day the acute pelvic inflammatory disease. pain had become gradually worse The senior doctor on duty will be until by 11 p.m. she was in severe asked to confirm this diognosis. pain and very frigtened. Christ, her husband, persuaded her thjat they should telephone their G.P. and he B. QUESTIONS came to see her at half past midnight. He took Thresia’s 1. Was Thresia feverish ? temperature which was raised, and 2. Did she have a stomachache ? discussed her symptoms with her, 3. Who suggested to her to go to and then thought she ought to go to hospital ? hospital to be abserved and 4. Has the diagnosis of her examined. abdominal pain been confirmed? Thresia was upset, but as the pain was still severe and she was very worried, she agreed to go. Christ C. GRAMMATICAL REVIEW quickly gathered together some of the things that she might need in Past Perfect Contiunous Tense hospital, while the G.P. organized an Had + been + Verb + ing ambulance and talked to the doctor 1. She had been feeling unwell for on duty at the hospital. several days. In the darkened quite ward, the night nurse receives the message 2. They had been watching TV for 2 that a patient is coming in with hours when I came severe lower alxlominal pain. She Past Perfect Tense goes quickly to a single empty room Had + Past Participle and prepares it, collecting 1. She had experienced lower E. SUBSTITUTION DRILLS abdominal pain for several days. 1. Theresia was admitted to 2. the pain had become gradully Taken to / discharged from/ worse. transferred to The gynaecology ward at 2 a.m
D. NOUN ADJECTIVE 2. she had experienced lower
abdominal pain Abdomen abdominal – perut Breathing difficulties/low back Vessel vescular - pembuluh pain/lassitude darah For several days.
Cerebrum carebral – otak 3. the General pracitioner took her