Aches and pains

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 508.

Vocabulary Exercises

Choose the proverbs which were mentioned in the text. Translate other proverbs.

Answer the following questions

1. What does GP mean?

2. How many patients does each GP have?

3. Who gets medicine for free?

4. What diseases are most spreading in Britain?

5. What kind of alternative medicine is used in Britain?

6. What is NHS?

7. Why do many people have to go to private doctors?

1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ………………………………………………

2. A sound mind in a sound body. ……………………………………… ……………

3. Sickness in the body brings sickness to the mind. ……………………… …………

4. Many doctors have killed the king. ……………………………………… ………..

5.Wealth is nothing without health. .……………………………………………..…

6. The remedy is worse than the disease. ……………………………………………

7.We never know the value of water till the well is dry. …………………………..

1. Complete the dialogues:

1) А: What's the matter with you?

В: ……………………… .

А: You must stay at home and …………. .

В: Yes, I think you are right.

2) А: ………………… .

В: Here's the phone number of the school's dentist.

А: ………………… .

В: ……………….. .

3) А: Your nose is red. Have ………………………….?

В: Yes.

А: Have a hot drink and ………………….. .

В: ……………………………………….. .

4) А: I …………………………………… .

В: Shall I call a doctor?

А: Yes, I think you should.

В: ………………………………….. .

Nouns: We only use ache with the following: I've got toothache (U), a stomach-ache, backache (U), earache (U) and a headache. For other parts of the body we use pain, e.g. I woke up in the night with a terrible pain in my chest.

Verbs: You can use ache for some things, e.g. my back aches; but hurt is more common to describe real pain, and it can be used with or without a direct object:

She hurt her foot when she jumped off the bus and fell over, (also injured here) or

She hurt herself when she jumped off the bus and fell over.

I hit my leg against the table and it really hurts. (= gives me a terrible pain)

Adjectives: The only common adjective is painful (painless):

A: Did it hurt when you had your filling? (= when the dentist fills a hole/cavity in the tooth)

B: No, it was painless.