Health Vocabulary

Tick the words that you know and find

the meaning for those you dont know
asthma a runny nose

antibiotics

an allergy a rash wheezy hay fever

painkillers flu pills be sick
throat a migraine
a virus

diarrhoea sore

sneeze

temperature

penicillin

throw up

a stomach ache an infection paracetamol

food poisoning a blocked-up nose an infection

Use a word in each gap to complete

the phrasal verbs
1. Come _______ (regain consciousness)
2. Cheer _______ (become happier)
3. Come _______ with (fall ill with)
4. Break _______ (appear suddenly in
large
numbers, of a disease)
5. Pass _______ (faint)
6. Get _______ (recover from)

Use one of the previous phrasal verbs in the

correct form in each gap to complete the
sentences
1. The heat was too much for him and he _______; he only
_______ when we carried him outside into the fresh air.
2. This illness first _______ in China but it soon spread to
the West.
3. Carol has _______ flu and she has to stay at home, so I
sent her some flowers to _______ her _______ .
4. Its a simple operation and I am confident that you will
soon _______ it.

Choose the correct word or phrase

to complete the text.
When I fell and cut my hand badly on some broken glass, I
knew that it would need treatment. There was a health
surgery/clinic in town so I covered my hand to stop the
bleeding and headed there. I was seen straight away by a
doctor, ho cleaned it up to prevent infection/prescription and
told me that I should see my own doctor in a few days. I hadnt
been for a(n) operation/check-up for years, so the doctor had
a good look at me. Fortunately, he didnt find anything else
wrong, so he gave me some tablets/injections and told me
that i had to keep the hand clean in case of treatment/germs.

Choose the correct word to

complete the sentence.
1. Everyone should know something about first _______ in case
of
emergency.
a) aids
b) assistance c) help d) medicine
2. The doctor _______ my temperature and said i had a slight
fever
a) found b) got c) took d) had
3. Mrs. Singh took the _______ to the chemist and got the
medicine she
needed
a) prescription b) receipt c) recipe d)formula

4. The doctor walked down the _______ , talking to

all the
patients in the beds.
a) chamber
b) surgery c) ward
d) alley

5. Put some cream on your cut so that you dont

get a(n) _______.
a) injury b) infection c) germ d) allergy

6. Its important not to eat too much _______ food.

a) junk b) rubbish c) litter
d) waste

SPEAKING ACTIVITY
A) Work on your own. Read the information for conversations 1
2. inYou
a doctor.
and 2. Decide what you want to say
eachare
conversation

1. You are a patient.

You
have just moved to a
new town and you
are going to see a
doctor for the first
time. You have a
stressful job (youre a
police officer) youve
been having some
health
problems
recently. Decide what
your symptoms are
and how long you
have had them.

You
have
already
seen
your
next
patient twice this
month, but you dont
think
there
was
anything wrong with
him/her.
The
last
time you saw him/her
you told him/her to
take
some
paracetamol. Ask the
patient what his/her
symptoms are. Then
decide
what
treatment to give (if

 Work with a partner. Role-play

the conversations. Your partner
starts conversation 1. You start
conversation 2.