10. SYMPTOMS
■ Red eyes
■ A runny nose
■ A blocked nose
■ Insomnia (you can’t sleep)
■ Cough
■ A swollen ankle
■ A pain in my… (leg)
11. Functional language
(Doctor/nurse)
• What’s the matter? /What seems to be the problem?
• How do you feel?
• Does it hurt here?
• Do you have … (a cough, a temperature, a swollen ankle)?
• Can you… (move your hand)?
• Are you allergic to anything?
• I think you have…
• You should/shouldn’t… You ought to /you oughtn’t to
• Try (not) to… (verb)
12. USE THE THREE CONDITIONALS!
■ 1ST CONDITIONAL: You won’t get better, unless you rest in
bed.
■ 2ND CONDITIONAL: If I were you, I would continue having that
pill for 3 more days.
■ 3RD CONDITIONAL: If you hadn’t come to hospital, you
wouIdn’t have found out about your illness.
13. Functional language
(patient)
• I don’t feel very well/ I feel ill/ I feel sick/ terrible.
• I’ve got a bad cold/ a sore throat/ a cough
• I’ve got a headache / toothache /stomachache
• My back/ head/stomach/ tooth hurts
• I hurt my ankle/wrist
• Is it serious?
• What should I do?
• Would I get better if I followed a healthy diet?
• If I had known that I was going to catch a cold, I wouldn’t have
gone out.
14.
15. Possible solutions
■ Go to hospital
■ Take vitamin C
■ Use crutches
■ Take paracetamol
■ Take some pills /tablets
■ Follow a special diet
■ Rest in bed
■ Take your pulse and temperature
■ Make a diagnosis and decide how to treat somebody
■ Prescribe somebody some medicine
■ Take some days off and recover
■ Have some X-rays done
■ Have an operation
18. Useful idioms
■ Feel off-colour / Feel under the weather:
to not be feeling as well as usual
■ To be on the road to
recovery: recovering; getting better; improving
■ To become as fit as a fiddle: in very good health
19. WORK IN PAIRS
■ Now, it’s time for you to work in pairs. One person will be the
doctor and the other person will be the patient. You must
prepare a role-play to do in class.
■ Try to be original and make it as real as possible.
■ 2 or 3 pairs will be taken to improvise in class.
