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AT THE DOCTOR'S (2)

Answer the following questions:

1. Are all diseases curable? What incurable diseases do you know?

2. What children's diseases do you know?

3. Do you always follow the doctor's instructions?

4. What do you usually do when you cut your finger?

5. Do you always stay in bed if you are running a high temperature?

6. Have you got a hot-water bottle at home? If so, what do you use it for?

7. Why do usually people have their blood-tests taken before eating?

8. When do people use cups?

9. Do you prefer to use medicine from the chemist's or home remedies? Why?

10. Which of the diseases you know are rare nowadays?

Correct the following wrong statements.

Model: People use cotton when they are short-sighted. — No, they don't. They use spectacles when they are short-sighted.

1. Only very old people have chicken-pox.

2. Far-sighted people can't see anything in the distance.

3. Lame people can run fast.

4. Blind people can read very quickly.

5. People usually take valerian drops when they have a fever.

6. Smoking does people a world of good.

7. If your eyesight is poor, you usually go to the dentist's.

8. If you have a splitting headache, you usually spread some ointment on your hands.

9. You have your chest X-rayed if you break your leg.

10. If you are nervous, you usually take a glass of orange juice.

11. Heart trouble is usually catching.

12. You put some iodine on your hand if you scald it.

13. You have your arm in a sling if you cut a finger.

14. It usually takes you a month to recover if you catch a cold.

15. You always feel feverish when you have problems with your stomach.

16. If a doctor finds any rash on your arms he puts them in a cast.

17. You are to gargle your throat if your nose is clogged up.

18. After serious operations people never go to health-resorts.

19. Smoking never tells on your health.

20. Appendicitis is an infectious disease.

1. hurt/injured

2. in shock

3. unconscious

4. heatstroke

5. frostbite

6. heart attack

7. allergic reaction

8. swallow poison

9. overdose on drugs

10. fall-fell

11. get-got an electric shock

12. the flu/influenza

13. an ear infection

14. strep throat

15. measles

Learn the following proverbs by heart. Try to comment on them.

1. An apple a day keeps a doctor away.

2. Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

3. Diseases are the interests of pleasures.

4. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

5. Good health is above wealth.

6. Health is not valued till sickness comes.

7. The remedy is worse than the disease.

8. Time is the great healer.

9. He that lives with cripples learns to limp.

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