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- INFO PRE I.B A ICH RODIČOV
- MATURITA!!!
- Užitočné stránky
- Stupnice hodnotenia
- Grammar notes
- 1 Family
- 2 Culture and art
- 3 Sports
- 4 Housing
- 5 Shopping and services
- 6 Health care
- 7 Travelling
- 8 Education
- 9 Jobs and Employment
- 10 Human Relations
- 11 Man and Nature
- 12 Development of Science and Technology
- 14 Communication and Its Forms
- 16 Young People and Society
- 17 Food
- 18 Hobbies, Free Time and Lifestyle
- 19 Multicultural Society
- 20 Towns and places
- 21 Clothing and fashion
- 22 The Book
- 23 Role-models and Ideals
- 24 The Country Whose Language I am Learning
- 25 Slovakia - My Homeland
- FCE
6 Health care
6 Health care
a) Human body
- Identify parts of a human body
b) Common and civilization diseases, accidents, at the doctor, pharmacy
- How often do you go to the doctor and what illnesses do you usually suffer from?
- What kind of medicine helps you most?
- How do you take care of your health?
- Have you ever had an accident or broken your arm or your leg? If so, describe what happened. If not, talk about an accident in general.
- Are you satisfied with your doctor? Why? Why not? What would you like to change? What do you expect a good doctor to be like?
c) Healthy lifestyle (eating habits, physical and mental health)
- Do you live a healthy lifestyle? Why? Why not?
- Do you think that it is important to learn how to manage stress? How do you manage the stress before an examination? What situations do you find most stressful?
- What things can we do to make ourselves better when we are ill?
- Have you ever tried herbal teas? If so, what was it like and why did you try it? How did it make you feel?
- Many people use colour, aroma therapy or messages to keep well. What do you think about those methods? What do you do if you do not feel well?
Writing suggestion:
Article (250 – 280 words)
Write an article to a school magazine about what the main principles of a healthy lifestyle are.
Vocabulary:
Doctor, physician, GP/general practitioner, specialist, surgeon, psychiatrist, dentist, paediatrician, dermatologist, ear and throat specialist, nurse
Conventional, traditional, alternative, classical medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture
Treatment, cure, healing, medical care, preventive care
Diseases (infectious, epidemic), illnesses, aches, backache, toothache, headache, ill, sick, the sick, (in)curable disease, mortal disease, disorder, disability, fatal
Mentally ill, insane, mad, crazy, mental disease
To feel ill, to feel poorly, to be washed out, to be indisposed, to be sick, to fall ill, to suffer from an illness
To have a cold, to have a running/runny nose, to have a sore throat, sneeze, cough, influenza, tonsillitis, polio, mumps, measles, swollen glands, infant diseases, hay fever, indigestion, ache, hurt pain, itch, vomit
Examine the patient, take the temperature, check the blood pressure, examine the chest and throat, feel the pulse, X-ray, take a blood-count, diagnose
Administer by injection, vaccinate, prescribe a medicine
Pill, tablet, sleeping-pill, pain killer, healing ointment, medicinal herb, remedy
To faint, to be unconscious, fracture, split bone, minor injuries, blister, burn, snake-bite, dislocation, bruise
Dental care, to drill, to fill a tooth, false teeth, filling, cavity
Hearing impaired, sight impaired, physically challenged, deaf, mute, paralyzed, blind
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