A. Common problems
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 526.
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?
Follow-up: Look at the health page of a magazine or newspaper. Make a note of any new vocabulary on the theme that you find there. Look in your medicine cabinet at home, at or work. Can you name everything that you find there?
Health: illness and disease
| She's sneezing. | She's coughing. | She's got a a sore throat. | She's blowing her nose | She's got a temperature. | |||
| What's the matter? I've got a cold I've got flu (U) (more serious than a cold) I've got hay fever (U) | How do you know? (the symptoms) a sore throat, sneezing, a cough symptoms for a cold + aching muscles and a temperature, e.g. 39.5 sneezing, runny nose, sore eyes | Cause of illness a virus a virus | |||||
| allergic reaction to pollen from grass often food, or a virus many e.g. food, alcohol too much alcohol | |||||||
| I've got diarrhoea (U) I feel sick I've got a hangover | I keep going to the toilet I want to vomit (= be sick) headache, feeling sick | ||||||
Note: For these illnesses, you can either buy something from the chemist, or go to your doctor, who may give you a prescription (= a piece of paper with an order for some medicine) that you get from the chemist.
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