I. Make your choice of the words in italics

1. To work well you must be healthy / ill.

2. It’s not healthy to be slim / stout.

3. A temperature is another word for illness / fever.

4. The doctor feels your pulse / temperature.

5. When something irritates your throat you have to cough / sneeze.

6. When something tickles inside your nose you have to sneeze / cough.

7. I can’t stand the pain. It’s very sharp / dull.

8. I think I’ve got fly / food poisoning. The weather was so wet these days.

9. When the doctor knows the symptoms he gives his diagnosis / medical insurance.

10. When you have recovered we say that the doctor has cured / treated you.

11. When you are seriously ill you are taken to a hospital / health center.

II. Find the proper definitions for the words.

Disease ailment malady sickness illness

a) The state of being sick / ill health / inclination to vomit / stomach distress.

b) The state or condition of being sick, whether in body or mind.

c) Disease / physical disorder.

d) A particular kind of illness with special symptoms and name.

e) Disease / illness (also social / spiritual).

III. Fill the gaps with suitable words.

1. If you want to find out someone’s temperature, use a ………..

2. Please don’t cough all over everyone! Don’t forget that a cold is ……….. As it is a virus, there is no ………. for it.

3. I hurt my wrist yesterday playing football and today it’s ………..

4. I had to wait three-quarters of an hour in the doctor’s ………..

5. I went to the doctor about my insomnia and she prescribed some ………..

6. The main symptom of hay fever is that you keep ………..

7. It was quite a bad cut and it was bleeding a lot, so I put on a ………..

8. I think he’s broken his leg! Quick, someone call an ………..

9. If someone is seriously ill they need to go to hospital to have an ………..

10. I hate going to the dentist – I’ve got to have two ………. done.

11. If you want to stay fit, don’t eat too much and take plenty of ………..

12. Her mother sent her to bed because she had a ………..

13. He was ten kilos overweight and was advised to go on a ………..

14. You’ve eaten too much, that’s why you have a pain in your ………..

15. Oh, dear. I feel awful. I think I’m going to ………..

IV. Choose the best alternative to fill each of the gaps in the next five sentences.

1. If you want antibiotics, you’ll have to ask the doctor for a ………..

2. She was in terrible pain, so the nurse gave her a (n) ………. injection scratch stab vaccine wound.

3. If you’ve got measles, your skin is covered in ………. blots dots freckles spots stains.

4. Why not take up tennis? It’ll help you to keep fit and it’s a great ………. amusement game match play tournament.

5. He didn’t feel like going to the party because he had a terrible ………. disease headache homesickness infection nostalgia.

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