3 VOCABULARY WORKSHEET A
Lesson 3.1 Illnesses and injuries
Lesson 3.6 Outbreaks
1 Match the sentences with the words and phrases
3 Match 1–8 to A–H.
below.
a backache a burn a cough a cut
a fever a heart attack an infection
a mosquito bite a sore throat get a cold
get out of breath the flu
1 ‘My temperature was really high in the morning.
I felt really hot and weak.’
2 ‘I haven’t been very careful with the knife.’
3 ‘It hurts when I talk.’
4 ‘I was running to catch the bus and I’m not very fit.’
5 ‘This is because I was sitting at my desk for too
long.’
6 ‘Why didn’t I bring a spray? There are so many
insects everywhere.’
7 ‘I was ironing my clothes and touched the hot iron.’
8 ‘My uncle said he had this awful pain on the left side
of his chest.’
9 ‘My brother has a cold. I can hear him in the other
room.’
10 ‘I fell off my bike and hurt my elbow. I didn’t clean
the place where I had an injury and now it’s red.’
11 My friend Martha was ill and I was sitting next to
her. She was coughing and cleaning her nose all the
time. Now it’s all happening to me.’
12 ‘If you feel tired, have a backache and a headache,
you should go to the doctor. You probably have a
fever, too.’
2 Complete the illnesses and injuries circles with the
words from Ex 1. Some words can be used more
than once.
what happens
when you have
the flu
1 It’s easy to catch the flu
2 Lots of people reside
3 A lot of animals
4 Some diseases are not dangerous anymore
5 The first outbreak of the Ebola virus was in 1976
6 The smallpox virus decimated
7 The greater virulence of the Delta coronavirus
variant meant
8 In many cases you may infect others before
A because everyone is vaccinated against them.
B have fleas.
C the Native American population when Europeans
arrived in the Americas.
D in towns with places where they meet.
E more people got sick with it.
F you notice the symptoms of the disease.
G because it’s quite contagious.
H when a lot of people got sick and many of them died.
Lesson 3.1 and 3.6 Communication
4 Work in small groups. Follow the instructions.
• Take turns to choose one injury or illness from the
list below. Don’t tell your friends which one it is.
• The rest of the group have to ask yes / no questions
about how you are feeling, or what you were doing,
to find out what is wrong with you. They can’t use the
injury or illness words from the list in their questions.
Instead they should ask questions such as ‘Is it
difficult for you to eat?’ or 'Were you on holiday?'
a backache a burn a cough a cut
a fever the flu get a cold get out of breath
a heart attack an infection a mosquito bite
a sore throat
what happens
when you have
a cold
a fever
types of
skin injuries
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