HEALTH
ILLNESS AND DISEASE
Zdroj: English Vocabulary in Use, autor Stuart Redman, nakladatelství Cambridge University Press
Common problems.
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She´s sneezing.
She´s coughing.
She´s got a sore throat.
She´s blowing her nose.
She´s got a temperature.
Common problems
• She is sneezing.
Common problems
• She´s coughing.
Common problems
• She´s got a sore
throat.
Common problems
• She´s blowing her
nose.
Common problems
• She´s got a
temperature.
Vocabulary 1:
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illness,disease = nemoc
symptom = příznak
cold = nachlazení
flu = chřipka
hay fever = senná rýma
pollen = pyl
diarrhoea = průjem
be sick = zvracet
hangover = kocovina
ache, pain = bolest
• hurt (hurt,hurt) = zranit,
bolet
• pain in one´s chest =
bolest na prsou
• filling = plomba
• fill a hole /a cavity in the
tooth = zaplombovat díru
v zubu
• lung cancer = rakovina
plic
• heart atttack = infarkt
• hepatitis = žloutenka
Vocabulary 2:
• breathe = dýchat
• vomit = zvracet
• chemist = lékárník,
drogista
• prescription = předpis
• serious condition = vážný
stav
Dialogue No. 1:
a) What happened? What´s the matter?
I ´ve got a cold.
b) How do you know? What are the symptoms?
A sorethroat, sneezing and a cough.
c) Do you know the cause of your illness?
I think a virus.
Dialogue No. 2:
a) I´ve got flu (U)(=more serious illness than cold).
b) The same for a cold plus aching.
c) A virus.
Dialogue No. 3:
a) I´ve got hay fever (U).
b) Sneezing, runny nose, sore eyes.
c) It´s allergic reactin to pollen from grass.
No. 4:
a) I ´ve got diarrhoea.
b) I keep going to the toilet.
c) Some food or virus..
No. 5:
a) I feel sick.
b) I want to vomit.
c) Many food and alcohol.
No. 6:
a) I´ve got a hangover.
b) I´ve got a headache and I´am feeling sick.
c) Too much alcohol.
Note = good advice:
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 pains (wordspot)
Nouns:
We only use ache with the following
I´ve got toothache (U),
a stomach-ache,
backache (U), earache (U)
a headache.
For other parts of the body we use
pain
e.g. I woke up in the night with a terrible pain in my chest
Verbs:
• You can use ache for some things
e.g. My back aches.
• But hurt is more common to describe real pain,
and it can be used with or without a direct object.
She hurt (=injured) her foot when she jumped off the bus
and fell over.
She hurt herself when she jumped off the bus.
I hit my leg against the table and it really hurts. (= gives me
a terrible pain).
Adjectives:
• The only common adjective is painful/painless
E.g.
I had an injection yesterday and it was very painful.
A: Did it hurt when you had your filling? (=when the dentist
fills a hole in the tooth)..
B: No, it was painless.
Serious illnesses
• Doctors believe smoking is the major cause of lung cancer.
• He had a heart attack and died almost immediately.
• Hepatitis is a liver disease
• Asthma (=chest illness causing breathing problems) has become
more common.
Note:
Illness and disease are often used in the same way.
Disease is used for a serious condition caused by an infection
e.g. liver disease.
Illness is a more general word.
Exercise 1
Complete the main symptom/s for these conditions.
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A cold:
Flu:
Hay fever:
A hangover:
Diarrhoea:
Asthma:
Exercise 2
Look at the pictures and write what happened.
Fig 1
Fig 2
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Fig 4