23 Feeling ill
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1 Basic vocabulary
Translatethe words in colour into your language:
1. I've got a cold. ...........
2. Myneckaches. ...........
3. IthinkI'vegotflu. ...........
4. I've got a pain in my knee. . . . . . . . . . . .
5. I've got a sore back. . . . . . . . . . . .
6. My armhurts. ...........
7. Have fOUgot a temperature? ...........
8. What are the symptoms? ..... ..... .
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2 Saying you don't feel very well
Match the beginnings of each sentence on the left
with the pairs of endings on the right:
1. I'm a. terrible I awfull dreadfu1.
a bit under the weather.
2. I've got b. il1.
not very well.
c. a cold.
the flu.
d. very well.
too good.
3. I don't feel
4. I feel
3 Serious conditions
Match the condition on the left with the part of
body that it particularly affects on the right:
6. arthritis
7. migraine
f. rour blood
g. rour tonsils
Match the diseases with their possible causes:
8. AIDS
9. typhoid
10.heart disease
11. skin cancer
12. malaria
13.lung cancer
h. stresS
i. the Slin
j. smoking
k. a mosquito bite
1. dirty water
m. unprotected sex
4 Causes and symptoms
Match the symptomon theleft with the causeon the right:
1. I've got a blister. a. I think I've been working too much.
2. I've got a headache. b. Our bed is too soft. We need to get a firmer Dne.
3. I've got jetlag. c. I had too much to drink at dinner last night.
4. I've got a had back. d. I've just been chopping some wood.
5. I'm feeling really run down. e. It must have been that take-away last night.
6. I've got a splinter in my band. f. I wore the wrong shoes to go hill-walking!
7. My nose is blocked up. g. I always get haf fever at this time of year.
8. I've got diarrhoea. h. It was an 18-hour flight and a 10-hour time diHerenc
Now matchthe following pieces of adviceto the situationsabove:
9. Make sure fOU drink plenty of water. Otherwise, you'll get dehydrated.
10. Go straight to bed for a couple of hours, then get back to rour normal sleeping pattern tonig
11. Why not take some time oH and go somewhere warm? Thats what fOUneed!
12. There's a specialkind of plaster fOUcan use on blisters. I had Dneand it helped a lat.
13. Get Dne of these nasal sprays from the chemist. They always work for me.
14. Have fOUtried an osteopath or a chiropractor?
15. Let me see. Have fOU got a pair of tweezers?
16. Stick to orange juice in future!
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1. appendicitis a. rour stomach
2. tonsillitis b. rour lungs
3. hepatitis c. rour head
4. asthma d. rour appendix
5. an u\cer e. rour joints and bone
5 Health problems
Complete the following dialogues with the
sentences below:
a. I've got a bit of a hangover.
b. I feel dizzy.
c. I've caught a cold.
d. You'll make yourself il!.
e. I always get seasick.
f. I've got indigestion.
1. Whats the matter?
> I think I are my dinner too quickly.
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2. Maybe we should take the boat. lts much
cheaper than flying.
> Oh no, I'd rather not. """"""'"
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3.lthink .
> WeU,why don't fOUhave a glass of hor
lemon and honey and get an early night?
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> WeU, its rour own fault. You shouldn't
have opened that second botde of wine!
5. You look exhausted. You'vebeen working
too bard recendy. If you don't slow down a
bit, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .
6. Are you all right? You've gene as white as a
sheet!
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6 IlInesses and symptoms
Match these iIInesseswith the symptoms below:
hay fever food poisoning flu
an allergy bronchitis measles
1. I've got a terrible cough and pains in my
chest, and I seem to be constandy short of
breath.
2. I feel absolutely awful. My temperature is
41', and I've got a headache and a runny
nose. I've got a sore throat - its agony every
time I swallow.
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3. I can't go near cats. I come aut in a horrible
red rash.
4. She's been oH school for two weeks now.
She's got a temperature and she's covered in
litde red spots. She's completely lest her
appetite - she hasn't eaten a thing for the last
three days.
5. I think it must be something I are. I was sick
all night. I still feel sick now and I've got
a terrible stomach-ache.
6. lts the same every summer. My eyes get really
itchy and I can't stop sneezing.
In British English be sick means vomit (bring
food back up from the stomach).
If you have an allergy, you are allergic to
something. Are you allergic to anything?
7 She's feeling a bit better
Completethe following dialogue with the correct
form of the verbs below:
recover feel get make
A: The office is empty. Where is everybody this
morning?
B: Well, Jane phoned to say she's got an upset
tummy, but she said she'll come in as SODO
as she's . . . . . . . . . a bit better - probably
this afternoon. Dave's got the flu and he
says itll take bim a few days to . . . . . . . . .
over it - and Sarah's plane was delayed at
the airport for seven hours and she wants an
extra dar to . . . . . . . . . . from the journey.
At least Mark's bere - he'd been in bed with
tonsillitis all weekend, but he's . . . . . . . . . .
a speedy recovery and he's upstairs working
at his computer at this very moment.
A: I'm glad somebody's bere!
There are several different ways of talking about
stomach problems. An upset stomach, an upset
tummy or indigestionare not very serious. If it is
serious, you might talk about stomach trouble.
Add rour own words and expressions
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