Week 4, day 5

Today's topic is Health and Medical Care

1) Listen to the dialogue and the three stories, the three summaries of the conversation, without reading the texts. Listen 2-3 times. After that listen to the dialogue and the summaries again looking at the texts and check whether you could understand all the details or not.

HEALTHAND MEDICAL CARE

1.

Linda: What is the matter?

Jane: I don’t feel well.

Linda: What’s wrong?

Jane: I have a headache and my throat hurts.

Linda: That doesn’t sound so good. Maybe you have a cold. Do you have a fever?

Jane: I don’t think so. I don’t know. But I don’t have time to be ill.

Linda: It doesn’t matter if you have time or not. You should go home and rest.

Jane: I can’t. I have to go to rehearsal. I am in a play and it is very important for me to be there.

Linda: But if you go to rehearsal when you are sick you will make yourself worse. You need to go home and lie down. Drink lots of juice and tea and eat lots of garlic.

Jane: Garlic? That helps?

Linda: Yes. But nothing will help unless you rest.

Jane: But if I don’t rehearse then the play will be terrible.

Linda: If you rehearse today, you might become more sick. And if you get worse maybe there will be no play for you! Also, if you go today then you might give the cold to the other actors. Then there really won’t be any play.

Training 1

Jane: “I don’t feel well today. I have a headache and my throat hurts. And of course, it is exactly when I don’t have time to be ill. I simply can’t go home and have a rest, as Linda advises. I know she is right. But I really can’t! I have to go to rehearsal. I am in a play and if I don’t rehearse, then the play will be terrible. But Linda says that if I rehearse, I might become more sick or even give the cold to other actors. And then our director will never give me another part. So perhaps I’ll go home after all.”

1. How are you today?

2.Why can’t you go home and rest?

3.What will happen if you don’t rehearse?

4.What does Linda say?

5. What will you do?

Training 2

Linda: “I think sick people should stay at home and rest. That’s what I tell Jane, too. The thing is she wants to go to rehearsal. But she’ll only make herself worse. What she really needs is to go home, lie down, drink lots of juice and tea and eat lots of garlic. I always do all these things and I recover very fast. But Jane doesn’t understand that if she rehearses, she might get worse and give the cold to the other actors. then there won’t be any play at all.”

1. What should sick people do?

2. Why can’t Jane go to rehearsal?

3. What does she need?

4. What do you do when you are sick?

5. What will happen if Jane rehearses?

Training 3

Jane doesn’t feel well. She has a headache and her throat hurts. Linda tells her that she should go home and rest. But Jane says that she has no time to be ill. She has to go to rehearsal. She is in a play and it’s very important for her to be there. Linda doesn’t think that it’s a good idea. She tells her that if she goes to rehearsal when she is sick, she will make herself worse. She advises her to go home, lies down, drink lots of juice and tea and eat lots of garlic. Jane is worried that if she doesn’t rehearse, the play will be terrible. Linda explains to her that if she rehearses today, she might become more sick. And if she gets worse, maybe there will be no play for her. Besides, if she goes today, she might give the cold to the other actors. In this case there really won’t be any play.

- Read the dialogue and the summaries yourself recording your voice. Then listen to the original texts and to your voice sentence by sentence.






- Training 1. Answer the questions. Read the first question and answer it, then read the second... and so on.




- Now just look at the questions and answer them one by one. Do it 2-3 times. Try not to stop after each question.






- Say the text of Training 1 without looking at the text. Record your voice and compare your story with the story in the book.


- Training 2. Do the same with Training 2.


- Training 3. Read the summary 2-3 times. You don't have to memorise it now.






2) Listen to Topic 9, Colds and Flu 2-3 times.








- Listen and read the text now. Stop the recording after each sentence and try to imitate the native speaker.

9.Colds and Flu

Colds and flu are dangerous. They are a real problem during winter. A lot of people get flu or a cold then. You can catch flu on a bus or even in the hospital. If you catch a cold, you cough, sneeze and even have a fever. You can’t work with flu. You can’t even visit your friends. You can spend a week in bed or more when you have the flu. You drink hot tea. You take medicine. There are a lot of medicines for colds and flu. But they don’t work. At least, they don’t help me. Fortunately, I don’t catch colds very often. And I don’t have a cold now.

- Answer the questions.

1. Are colds and flu dangerous?

2. When are they a real problem?

3. Where can you catch a cold or flu?

4. What are the symptoms of a cold or flu?

5. Can you work or visit friends when you have the flu?

6. What do you do if you have flu?

7. Are there any medicines for colds and flu?

8. Do they help you?

9. Do you catch colds and flu very often?

10. Do you have flu now?

- Try to memorise the text.


- Say the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.







3) Listen to Topic 9, Colds and Flu in Past Simple.


Read it several times and answer the questions.






9. Colds andFlu

Colds and flu were very dangerous one hundred years ago. They were a real problem in winter. There wasn’t a lot of medicine for colds and flu then. There weren’t many doctors, either. So a lot of people died of the flu.

1. When were colds and flu really dangerous?

2. Was there much medicine for them then?

3. What about doctors?

4. How many people died of the flu?

4) Practise Black Jack Comes Back, Chapter 7, Part 4 (Picture 4)








EN Black Jack Chapter Seven Part Four

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5) Do this test from Topic-Based Tests for Beginners.

HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE
1
Complete the sentences with
who, what, when, where, why, how

1. _____ is she? She is my best friend.

2. _____ are you going?

3. _____ are you? I’m fine.

4. It’s four o’clock. _____ does your train leave?

5. You seem sad. _____?

6. That sandwich looks delicious. _____ did you get it?

7. That soup looks terrible. _____ is in it?

8. I don’t know _____ is in this medicine.

9. _____ gave it to you?

10. _____ much does it cost?

11. _____ is the best time to go?

12. _____ are you crying?

13. We can go any time. I don’t care _____.

14. But _____ is the doctor’s office?

15. Someone can show you but I don’t know _____.

16. _____ time is your appointment?

17. _____ are you leaving?

18. _____ do you have to go to the dentist?

19. _____ can I get there?

20. I don’t know _____ the doctor is not here.

See the key to this test below.




Key to Test 1, Health and Medical Care

1. who 2. where 3. how 4. when 5. why 6. where 7. what 8. what 9. who 10. how 11. when 12. why 13. when 14. where 15. who 16. what 17. when 18. when/why 19. how/when 20. why