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LE a have to reduce the swelling list. _ 16 be discharged from hospital: to one oe to regain consciousness: to wake bbe allowed to leave hospital is Da eae pee Oe pee ee her ne ae i 1ng by a thread durin ween coy tc | Tho esr was dctoned te gotios s y trom hospital lastnight. roundto to be in intensive caro: 10 te ina | 10 t2k2 ts tol heavy tol on: to 0: to be in He regained consciousness inthe | '° Rosotal ward where people who, "ave.abad eect on hospital ward. are veryilare veated and looked Working down the mines for so {6 respond sto, reaaeeeliouaert| 4 cher many years had taken its toll on better as a result of taking 2} was very serious. He vas in iS Moalth Particular medicine, etc inicaeRo Gas OF No Weslo28 s iif 10 " 12 Practice The following exercise bas been done by a fellow student. Are bisiber ‘answers correct? Put aatick (/) ifthe answer is corrector, if not, supply the correct answer $0 you have to give blood. t won't hur. These pils will help to alleviate the pain. He has to undergo surgery on his left knee and will therefore not play in Milan. Bathing your anke in cold water should contract the sweling These painkillers wll make effect almost immediately. | took the disease in Atica lest summer. It was his wife who regained him back mn to health, tending to his every need. She was out cold. I was seven hours before she reduced consciousness. ifit doesn't respond to this treatment, well have to operate. The hospital's senior eye specialist was going to nurse the operation, so she was in good hands. Most common infections can be treated with antibiotic. Thankuly, he performed a complete recovery. 1" 12 13 4 Complete the sentences below with an appropriate preposition. “You can't buy these tablets... the counter. You hhave to get them prescription.” There is no KNOWN CUR .n.n.nnn Stents disease. He was rushed hospital with suspected appendicitis. He couldn't eat what she had prepared for him because he Was allergic vxsnnn Cheese. He had been a lot of tess, and it was beginning to take its tot... his health You are supposed to finish the course if you are antibiotics. Her grandtather died Both of her sons suffer cancer. hayfever. He Wa ....n pretty good shape fora man of his age. They operated him on Monday and te was discharged hospital on Tuesday! He was intensive care, his ie hanging a thread. She takes vitamin supplements in winter because she is susceptible nun COINS and fi She was admitted burns. There's a long way to go before my legis totally better ut at least itis nn... the mend, hospital with third-degree What do you thin is bappening/bas happened in the pictures? Use the prompts, as well as your oum ideas, totale about them. tush to hospitalisuffer from heart attack/undergo surgeryflteyhang by a thread/intensive care/respond {0 treatment/on the mend, B suffer from migraine and back painietrocetako ‘medicine on prescription/no ctfect/take up yoga and relaxation techniquesalleviate painfin gocd shape now29 sCcliam Phrasal Verbs to clear up: if a rash or a cold clears Up, it goes away i { The doctor gave me some ‘ointment and told me that the rash should clear up within five days. i to come out In 8 resh/epote: I! you | ‘come out in a rash/spots, a rash © | or spots stan covering part or a | | of your body | I'm allergic to feathers. | only have — to look ata bird and} come out In arash. fo.come out of a coma: to wake up from @ coma twas two months bolore he cama cut of his coma to come roundicome to: to regain | consciousness after you have | fainted When I came roundito, ! was in an ambulance, to go down with ath: to become Ill with sth Tommy's gone down with | ‘measles. to pass out: to faint, to lose consciousness ‘My finger bled so badly that f vary ‘nearly passed out to pull through: to survive and recover from a serious lines | He's in critical condition but the doctors have assured us that he will pul trough. to put sb on sth: ia doctor puts you ‘on a particular course of | medicine, he prescribes that medicine for you to take [Note: a doctor can also put you on a diet] The doctor has put me on a course of antibiotics. to put your back out: to hurt your | back, often because you have ‘ied to it sth very heavy John won't be playing for us today. He's put his beck out to shske (sth) off: to get rid of sth Angela has for 2 week but she can't seem to | shake off her cold. totake @ tooth out: to remove atooth | The last time | went tothe dentist, the took four of my teeth out, 10 wear off: to stop having an effect When the anaesthetic wears off, ‘you wil be in some pain. Winess, Aches, and Pains 2 blinding/spiltting/thumping headache: a very bad headache ‘that thumping headache again. ‘abug: an illness whichis easily caught ut which is not serious and probably lasts fortwo of three days [Note: a stomach/tummy bug: 4 ‘bug which affects the stomach) | hope | don't pick up that bug which is going round the schoo! at the moment. to feel es right as rain: to feel 100% ‘well, after having previously flt i Holen went to bed with a blinding ‘headache but in the morning she felt as right as rain 18 highly Infectious disease: a disease that is very easily passed from one person to another Bushell’s disease is highly infectious. You only need someone to sneeze near you and you wil got it. to have/sutfer ¢ nervous breakdown: to become extremely depressed and unable to cope He's had two nervous breakdowns In ne rast inree years to have (got) poor eyesight: not to be able 10 see very well and probably needing to wear glasses ot contact lenses [Note: to be hard of hearing: not to beable to hear very well and probably needing to use a hearing sid] We all wear glasses in my family. We've all got very poor eyesight. You'll have to spoak up a bit: he's quite hard ct hearing. ‘2 runny nose: it you have (go!) a runny nose or i your nose Is running, youhave @ cold and your ‘nose is producing a lat of liquid I've just got a bit of runny nose ‘anda bit of sore throat, that's al, to be sorlousiy.i: to be very il and Probably in hospital as a result ‘She is seriously il in hospital and the doctors say that itis touch an go whether she wil pull through, | shooting palins: sudden, sherp palns Give me some aspirin: I've got which do net last for a tong time but which do repeat themselves 1 keep getting shooting pains like needles in my back. 8 sore throat: if you have (gol) a sore throat, your throat hurts so that you fing it dificult to swallow land sometirnes even to speak These lozenges are very good for sore throat ‘stinking cole: a very bad cokd 1'm not going into work today. Ive {got a stinking cold. to have @ touch of flu: to have some ‘of the symtoms of fly (a runny ‘nose, a headache, etc) but not ba so ill that you need to go to bed Ive just got a touch of fy. Its nothing a few paracetamol won't tix to fool (a bit) under the weather/ off-colour: to feel slightly ill Geott went to work yesterday, even though he felt under the weather. You don't normally need to vieit the doctor o: take any medicine it you just feel of-colour. to have en uptet stomach/to heve 1 etomech upset: not be able to keep anything in your stomach because you have probably eaten or drunk sth bad The last time | ate thet, 1 got an upset stomech.y. C “Practice in 10 " 12 Complete the sentences with an appropriate phrasal terb from the box below. You may bave to change the Lense or form of the verbs. 70 down wih take outcome out of-pasrout- | come ou input n= pul rgb shake of = ome rua = put on - wear of ear up Ted his back ... box of books. Chris is allergic to cheese, and if she has even a slice of it she a rash all over her body. | can't seem to this cold. Ive tried everything, but it ust won't go away. He = One minute he was standing, cchatting to Mark, and the next he was on the floor. | didn’t fee! anything because I was anaesthetised, but when the anaesthetic . | was in agony. ‘Naturally, we're all incredibly relieved, as at one i twas touch and go whether he would . Her tooth was so decayed she had tc have it trying to lift very heavy When he . his coma, the first words he ‘said were “Where am I?" We're so short-statfed because half our teachers have food poisoning, ‘As Emi’s throat infection hadn't doctor decided to her course of antibiotics. | don't know how long | had been unconscious, but se the a stronger when | , Hound myself neatly tucked up in a hospital bed. The doctor Anna .rn.ueme & special diet for diabetics. ‘Make up questions for tbe following answers. A: an B: {'m sure he'll pull through. & — B: Yes. I can't seom to shake it off A oo B: itl clear up within a couple of days A B: She just passed out! 3. a Complete he sentences in Section A with an ‘appropriate nown from Section A ve got a stinking She's got a runny He's gota sore. 1 shouldn't have eaten that cur. I's given me an upset . 5 [think Ive got a touch of coe © Ive gota blinding 7 Belore he collapsed, he complained of a shooting In his chest 8 He's not coming into work today. He says he fools a bt oft 9 It's. highly infectious... 10 I've got a stomach 41 Sho is seriously... 12. He had a nervous 13. Im feeling a bit under the 14 She's got very poor 18. Take two ofthese and you'l fe! as right as in the morning, . Can you match the pictures to any of be sentences in3a?