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Macmillan Polska 2010

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Teacher’s Notes

HEALTH AND MEDICINE – matura rozszerzona

by Aleksandra Prochalska

Type of activity: individual work
Focus: to check and revise vocabulary concerning HEALTH

AND MEDICINE based on “Revise ForMatura –

Repetytorium”

Level: Intermediate – Upper Intermediate
Time: 20 – 25 minutes
Preparation:

1. Photocopy the test.

Procedure:

1. Explain the tasks in the test if necessary.

2. Set the time limit.

Extension / Follow-up:

You may discuss marked tests with the whole class.

KEY
The key just provides suggestions, there might be

other possible answers.

1. Translate into Polish / 15 points

1. herbal therapy –

terapia ziołowa

2. drug abuse –

nadużywanie narkotyków

3. compulsive gambling –

nałogowy hazard

4. mint tea –

herbata miętowa

5. pneumonia –

zapalenie płuc

6. painful joints –

bolące stawy

7. to sneeze –

kichać

8. to lose consciousness –

tracić przytomność

9. high blood pressure –

wysokie ciśnienie krwi

10. chest –

klatka piersiowa

11. X-ray –

rentgen

12. fatal disease –

śmiertelna choroba

13. mental breakdown –

załamanie nerwowe

14. appendicitis –

zapalenie wyrostka robaczkowego

15. lung(s) –

płuco, płuca

2. Explain the difference. / 10 points

1. a plaster

= a piece of material stuck on your

skin to cover a small wound /

plaster

= a substance which hardens around

your leg or arm, used to treat broken bones

2. a burn

= an injury caused by fire, heat /

a scald

= a burn on your skin caused by hot

liquid or steam

3. an injection

= putting a drug into someone’s

body to help this person to recover /

a vaccine

= putting a drug into someone’s body

to protect them against a particular disease

4. to lose weight

= to lose kilograms /

to gain weight

= to become fatter

5. a scar

= a permanent mark on your skin /

a cut

= a temporary mark on your skin

3. Write down the missing word. / 15 points

1. A(n)

blister is a swelling on your skin containing

clear liquid, caused for example by a burn or

continuous rubbing.

2. To

cough means to suddenly push air out of your

throat with a short sound, often repeatedly.

3. A(n)

rash can be described as a lot of red spots on

someone’s skin, caused by an illness.

4. A(n)

outpatient is someone who goes to a hospital

for treatment but does not stay for the night.

5. When liquid is coming out of your nose, usually

because you have a cold, we say that you have a

runny nose.

6. A pain in your head and a feeling of sickness that you

get the day after you have drunk too much alcohol

is called a

hangover.

7. The feeling that you have when you think you are

going to vomit is called –

nausea.

8. An illness in which waste from the bowels is watery

and comes out often is called –

diarrhoea /

diarrhea.

9. Someone who spends a lot of time sitting and

watching television is called a

couch potato.

10. She was suffering

from a serious disease.

11. She is

off colour. She is slightly ill.

12. My children are as fit as a

fiddle. They are healthy

and fine.

13. The doctor gave me a

prescription for sleeping

pills.

14.

Alternative medicine such as acupuncture is the

opposite of conventional medicine.

15. The surgeons operated

on me last year.

4. Translate into English. / 10 points

1. spuchnięty –

swollen

2. wzrok –

eyesight

3. tabletka do ssania –

lozenge

4. ofiara –

casualty

5. skręcona kostka -

sprained ankle

6. opatrunek –

dressing

7. poczekalnia –

waiting room

8. siniak –

bruise

9. położna –

midwife

10. ugryzienie przez komara –

mosquito bite