54 i Health: illness and disease Common problems a 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 Aches and pi Nowns: We only use ache with the following: I've got toothache (U), a stomach-ache, bbackache (U), earache (U) and a headache. For other parts of the body we use pain, eI woke up in the night with a terse pain in my chest, Verbs: You can use ache for some thins, est. my back aches; bur hurt is more common to describe real pain, and it can be used with oF without a direct object: She hurt her foor when she jumped off the bus and fell ove. {also injured here} or She hurt herself when she jumped off the bus and fell over. ibe rete ery pre meee Adjectives: The only comnvon adjective i painful (# pales) or ee eer when the dentist fills a holefeavity in the tooth) a Did it hure when you had your filling? ( ss No, it was painless. Serious illnesses Doctors believe smoking is the major cause of lang cancer. He had a heart attack and died almost immediately: Hepatitis isa liver disease. Asthma (chest illness causing breathing problems) has become more common, Note: Illness and disease are often used in the same way, but disease is used for @ serious condition caused by an infection eg. a liver disease. Iness is a more general word, Engl \ocobulry in Use presntermedate & imermedie)Exercises 54.1 Write down the main symptom or symptoms for these conditions 1 acold 2 flu 3 hay fever: 4 a hangover: 5 diarrhoes: 6 asthma: 54.2 Look at the underlined letters in these pairs of words. Is the pronunciation the same or different? Look at the examples first. Examples: ache pain same constipated — stgmach different 1 disease diarchoea 4 virus illness 2 chemist ache 5 fy muscle 3 hur allergic 6 cough enough 54.3. Look at the pictures and write what happened in the space below. Try to use at least three or four words or pheases from the opposite page. Thad $4.4 Fill the gaps with a suitable word. 1 hic my hand on the desk and it really They say she died of a hea She had some apples that weren't ready to eat and now she's gat stomache Tve gor this terrible in my neck from sleeping in the wrong position. He died of cancer even though he never smoked a cigarette in his life I went to che doctor, and she gave me a for some tablets. Pollution makes her ‘worse and ie’ difficul for her to breathe. Thete are different forms of hepatitis; one is a more serious than the other. 9 Cure when I ell off that chaie. 1D My back from sitting at that computer all day. $4.5 Look at the opposite page again. Have you had any of these illnesses recently? Have you had any aches and pains recently? Make a lst of the ones you have had. Are there any other illnesses you have had or still have? If so, find the name for i/them in English, English Wccbulary in Use (preinrmediate& irtermedite) "355 eHealth: injuries A Common injuries An injury is damage to paet of your body, usually caused by an accident in the home, onthe roads, or during a game, eg. of football. Here are some common injuries: ey What's the problem? Howe did it happen? Result Solution 1 Teut(¥;n) my finger using a knife its bleeding a bit a plaster 2 Leut my leg quite badly 1 fell over it's bleeding quite a lot a bandage (n, | 3 Tewisted my ankle running fora bus [can’t walk on it easly rest 4 Tbroke my arm fell off my bike Tean't use it plaster (U) and 8 sling 5 Tve gor concussion playing football I'm confused: don't rest know where Iam 6 Tbucnt my hand taking something out it’s very painful special eream fof a hor oven 7 Te gota bruise (n, v) hit it on the side it’s swollen and ice pack fon my arm cof my desk bluerblack in colour B Hospital treatment Look carefully atthe key words in these texts John fell off a chaig hit his head on the flooe, and knocked himself unconscious. His wife called an amibulance bur John was sll unconscious wien i arrived. He was rushed to hospital (= taken very quickly) where they kept im for two days for blood tests, 1 jumped for the ball and collided with another player (we ran into hit each other). We both had cuts on our head, but had to g0 #0 hospital for eigh stitches. © Wounds and injuries Wound (n, v) and injury are both used to describe damage to the body, but a wound is generally caused by 2 weapon (eg. gun or knife) and itis usually intentional He shor the man in che chest. (= a bullet wound in the chest) [from a gun] He stabbed the boy in the back. (= a knife wound in the back) He gor into a fight and got beaten up. He bad a black eye and ewo broken ribs. 4 Engh Vocoblay in Use preinteredate & intermedi)Exercises 55.1 Complete the table with the correct verb forms. Now Verb Nown Verb cue blood wound bandage injury bruise shot treatment 55.2 Look at the pictures and write the story. Now compare your story with the model answer in the key 55.3 Complete these conversations in a suitable way. 1A: bleeding quite a bit, so I had to put a plaster on it before I could finish i: How did you do it, anyway? a: Ob, Twas 2 As a the next day the eye was realy swollen and he had bruises down both his arms. bi: My goodness. What did he tell his parents? &: More or less the truth. He said tried to get up again bur I couldn't move. Ie was incredibly painful, but fortunately there were a few pedestrians around co help me 8: Thats lucky. But what were you doing? 4A ca my face was cut and he had a cerible bruise on his head. 1: Sounds very unpleasant. How did it happen exactly? 55.4 Answer these questions about yourself. If possible, ask another person the same questions. 1 Have you ever broken your arm or leg? 2 Have you ever needed sticches ? 3 Have you ever had concussion? 4 Have you ever been unconscious? 5 Have you ever had a blood test? 6 Have you ever been in an ambulance? Engh Vocabulary in Use (prednuamedite & itrmedite) us19 Hobbies and pastimes Fill in the following crossword. Each answer is a hobby or pastime. _ 3 ‘i 7 4 | 2{_] 5,3] I | 6 7 | L] aL] | | | 8 2 | 1 6 | Ht (10 L n L4 7 | 8 13 14 15 i oL 16 4 10 " 2ACROSS | An outdoor activity for those who like running and map reading, 2 Not on land. 3 A useful activity which some people ‘can do at the same time as watching TV. 4 An interest in the ancient world. May spend weekends digging somewhere. 5 A popular card game. 6 An activity which is never finished. Can't be done in a flat 7 You need a loom to do this properly. 8 A good way to spend the weekend. But not as comfortable as a hotel? 9 A creative hobby. You may even sell ‘one or two of the things you create 10 An indoor game for 2-4 players. (2 words) 11 Most people are interested in this whether they play an instrument or not. 12 A relaxing activity. You may spend hours on your head! DowN 1 All you need is a camera. 2A relaxing activity, mainly done by ‘women, Could be called painting with wool, nylon, ete. 3 Is the closest thing to being a bird 4A hobby which can also be a good investment. (2 words) 5 A good way to keep fit and of getting. around. 6 A popular board game. Often takes. hours. 7 A popular hobby where the thing you make disappears once you make it 8 If you do this then you'll know how to do the rumba, samba, etc. 9 You need an animal to do this. 10 A popular summer pastime ~ espe- cially when the weather is warm. 11 A pastime for those who fancy them- selves as Richard Burton and Eliza- beth Taylor. 12 A winter pastime. Can be done in doors or out-of-doors. (2 words) 13 A famous Chinese game, played with tiles. (2 words) 14 An indoor game with balls. 15 A relaxing, outdoor hobby where you sit for hours before anything happens. 16 A creative hobby using clay.56 Leisure at home = TV, radio, music, video [watch TV every evening. [Nor I see TV] 4 Did you wateh/see the film about President Kennedy? i Tisten to the radio every morning. [NOT I heae the radio.] 5 ‘What programmes do you like best on TV and radio? Tike watching films on TV. (or [like to watch -..) - [ike listening to music on the radio. (or [like to listen often listen €o CDs or tapes when am relaxing. Ar the weekend, we usually watch a video. Hobbies/acti Avot young en ly cmputer ame er do: (ET eer ee "s [really like cookin Om La Do you like gardeni mp Ve grow flowers and vegetables in our garden. x Tevierom cemicieer™ ttia but [ have a lot of house plants % jes at home Reading I read a lot at home. What do you read? Tread novels = long stories) 4 Like books about naturldliferent countries, ete. AN Like magazines about rock music and spor. Do you read & newspaper every day? _ Time with other people Sometimes we invite friends around/have friends around. = we ask them to come to our house/flat) Totten have people/have friends to dinner. My best friend comes to stay sometimes. { sleeps in my house/flat) [talk to my friends on the phone every evening. or [ring my friends every evening, Just relaxing Sometimes, 1 just do nothing, Hike to have a sleep after lanch, Engl Vocobulry in Use elementary)56.1 56.2 56.3 56.4 Exercises What are these people doing? 3 Hes a Fill inthe missing verbs 1 Sometimes 1 stem... to CDs oF tapes. 2 I prefer to magazines more than newspapers. 31 to my sister on the phone every Sunday. 4 Alot of people like to a sleep after lunch, 5 Do you ever friends to dinner? 6 The children ‘computer games every evening, 7 Shall we 2 video tonight? 8 Did you the progeamme about Namibia yesterday? 9 My father vegetables in his garden, Answer for yourself. 1 If you have friends around, what do you like to do? 2 Does anyone come to stay at your houselflae? 3. What do you like to read most? 4 How often do you ring your friends? Interesting or boring? Put these leisure activities in order, from most interesting to most boring, in your opinion. gardening cooking reading using the Internet watching videos listening to music doing nothing, ‘most interesting ‘most boring Eng ocobulry in Use elementary) “7