Exercises:

1. Match the diseases with their symptoms:

2. What does the doctor or nurse use the following things for?

Example: Stethoscope – For listening to a patient’s chest.

3. Look at statements (a) to (h) in D above. Which do you think the doctor said to each of the following patients?

Ann with bad sunburn. Jo who has broken her leg. John who’s off to the Tropics. Paul with flu.

Liz with a bad cough. Sam who needs his appendix out. Rose suffering from exhaustion. Alf who’s sprained his wrist.

4. Complete the following table:

Noun

Adjective

Verb

……………………………………	breathless	…………………………..
…………………………………..	faint	…………………………..
………………………………….	shivery	…………………………….
………………………………….	dislocated	…………………………….
ache	……………………….	…………………………….
treatment	_	………………………………..
……………………………….	swollen	…………………………………

5. What medical problems might you have if…

1. You eat too fast?

2. You smoke a lot?

3. You play football?

4. You go skiing?

5. You stay too long in the sun?

6. You eat food you are allergic to?

7. You run unusually fast for a bus?

8. A mosquito bites you?

9. You get wet on a cold day?

10. You think you’re ill all the time?

6. Think of some of the illnesses you (or members of your family or friends) have had. What were the symptoms and what did the doctor prescribe?

7. Match adjectives (1-10) with nouns (a-j) to make expressions. Make up sentences with these phrases.

1. poor a) disease

2. infectious b) cancer

3. sore c) lifestyle

4. blood d) disease

5. lung e) insurance

6. unhealthy f) pressure

7. mental g) throat

8. nervous h) health

9. fatal i) breakdown

10. health j) illness

8. Match verbs (1-10) with expressions (a-j) to make phrases. Match them with medical specialties.

• A GP (general practitioner)

• A nurse

• A surgeon

• A dentist

1. take a) on you

2. listen to b) your tooth

3. examine c) you against a disease

4. operate d) your arm in plaster

5. prescribe e) your arm

6. vaccinate f) your tooth

7. put g) your temperature/pulse/blood pressure

8. X-ray h) medicines

9. take out i) you

10. fill j) your chest