Unit 1. B12

unit 1 sickness and health

Talking point

• Have you ever broken any bones? What happened?
• What illnesses are common in your country? What causes them?
• What is the life expectancy in your country?
• Why do some people live so long?
• How many hours do you sleep every night?
• What things are most damaging to a person’s health?
• Why are more and more people in the world becoming obese?
• Can the government do anything to improve people’s health?
• Do you think a public or private health care system is better?
• What do you think of the quality of the health care system in Spain?
• What do you think about the quality of air in your city? Is it a problem?
• Do you think people are healthier today than 50 years ago?
• Will we discover the secret of eternal life one day?
• What do you think about alternative medicine such as acupuncture or homeopathy?

You have aSTHMA

You have a sore throat

You have a cough

You have flu

You have sunburn

You have fainted

You feel dizzy

You have diarrhoea

Explain your symptoms and ask for advice

YOU HAVE food poisoning

You have a headache

You have twisted your ankle

You have a rash

Your back aches

You have a temperature

YOU HAVE MIGRAINE

YOU HAVE TOOTHACHE

YOU HAVE AN ALLERGY

YOU HAVE HANGOVER

Look at the following list of remedies. Match them to the common health problems on the right.

What do you know about this topic?

alternative medicine

Have you ever tried an alternative treatment?

True or False? Justify your answers Integrative medicine is a combination of traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine. At medical school, professors show you some alternative and complementary medical practice. Dr McCAnn thinks a doctor needs to treat patients with either conventional or alternative medicine According to alternative medicine, the human being can heal himself Patients of integrative medicine are willing to take an active role in their healing process. Some patients of integrative medicine are not ill at all. Dr McCAnn believes integrative medicine is here to stay.

LISTENING

True or False? Justify your answers Integrative medicine is a combination of traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine. T At medical school, professors show you some alternative and complementary medical practice. F Dr McCAnn thinks a doctor needs to treat patients with either conventional or alternative medicine. F According to alternative medicine, the human being can heal himself. T Patients of integrative medicine are willing to take an active role in their healing process. T Some patients of integrative medicine are not ill at all. T Dr McCAnn believes integrative medicine is here to stay. T

LISTENING

Going the extra mile: advanced vocabulary

To feel under the weather = to feel slightly ill To be as fit as a fiddle= to be healthy To phone in sick= to call work and say you’re ill To suffer from a disease To be a hypochondriac To give someone a diagnosis To treat an illness To relieve a headache, dental pain... To practise self-medication with non-prescription medicines To have an operation, to undergo an operation To donate organs, to be a donor To go down with a cold / the flu To need surgery Symptoms A life-threatening illness A tumour The side effects of drugs Vaccination

SAY TO WHAT EXTENT YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE

We should raise taxes to provide better public services

Childhood vaccinations should be compulsory

Clinically obese children should be taken into care

Sugar is worse than fat

Parents should be allowed to use technology to choose characteristics of the baby

Cannabis should be legalized

INJUTIES

Complete the sentences below with the following words:

Study the following solutions/treatments and match them to the injuries above:

present perfect

simple

continuous