Focus on Vocabulary

• to give a recount of smth = a story about past events in the order in which they occur - розповідати історію, переказувати, що сталося
• to be on the top of the world - бути на сьомому небі від щастя
• to have a stroke - мати (серцевий) напад
• blood vessel - кровоносна судина
• blood sypply - постачання крові
• to burst in the brain - пролитися (потрапити) до мозку
• paralisіs of - параліч чогось
• loss of vision - втрата зору
• loss of speach, inability to communicate - нездатність спілкуватися
• immobile - нерухомий
• pins and needles - відчувати поколювання
• to be paralyzed on smth - бути паралізованим, мати паралізовану (руку...)

Focus on the Topic

A stroke in where blood sypply to the brain is cut off. The major science of a stroke that most people acquire is weakness. So, paralisis of an arm, leg or face, in others it can be loss of speach or inability to communicate, others may have loss of vision or a combination of all of these things.

I was just so physically fit and also emotionally I was on the top of the world. I had a really good job at that time, and I was getting married.

I just felt terribly, so I woke up with pins and needles in one side of my leg, and then it worked its way towards my arm and across. I was just immobile. I couldn't move. I couldn't walk. I was paralyzed on this side of my body.

Ways of Talking in the Past

• Recount the story using Past Tense Verbs

e.g.: I was just so physically fit and also emotionally I was on the top of the world. I had a really good job at that time, and I was getting married.

• Use transition Signals to follow the order of events in the story: then, next, after that, at first, after a while, subsequently

e.g.: I woke up with pins and needles in one side of my leg, and then it worked its way towards my arm.

NB: When writing the story use more formal transition signals:

e.g.: At first, I woke up with pins and needles in one side of my leg, and after awhile, it worked its way towards my arm.

NB: Don't forget to put commas after transition signals

Ways to Form Compound and Complex Sentences

We form Compound and Complex Sentences by joining simple sentences together

e.g.: 
I was just immobile. I couldn't move. I couldn't walk.
I was just immobile. I couldn't move or walk.
I was just immobile. I could neither move nor walk.

Ways of Forming opposites to words

• 'im' suffix = not,  used with words beginning with 'm', 'p' to make the opposites of these words

immobile = not mobile
mature - immeture
polite - impolite
patient - impatient

• Many words do not use suffixes to form the opposites, completely other words are used:

hot - cold
Happy - sad
in - out
up - down

• Preffixes are used to form the opposites: un-, de-, dis-, in-

e.g.: inability, unfit, unemotionally

NB: Use Thesaurus to help you find the opposites of the words.