2. Vocabulary
•An illness - a disease of the body or mind
•Cold
•Symptoms - physical feeling or problem
that shows you have an illness
•Runny nose, cough, fever
•Treatment - something you do to cure an
illness or injury
•Remedy - something that makes you feel
better
3. •Treatment - something you try to do to
cure illness or injury
•Does your health insurance cover this
kind of treatment?
•Remedy - something to make you better
when you are ill
•When your throat is irritated, lozenges
can be a good remedy.
4. •Placebo - substance patients take to feel
better as they believe to be treated by
medicine
•Homeopathy - treatment using natural
substance
•Side-effect - reaction caused by drugs,
other than the main effect
•Access - right, opportunity to use or see
something
•Patients have access to their own
records.
5. •Potentially - possibly
•Rule out - to decide that something will
not happen or someone is not suitable
•Tried and tested - used many times before
and proved to be successful
•Acupuncture - a way of treating pain or
illness by putting thin needles into
different parts of body
•Acupuncture doesn’t cause any pain, for
the needles are thin.
6. •Antibiotic - a medicine that cures
infections by destroying harmful
bacteria
•Hypnosis - a mental state like sleep
which can be easily influenced by other
people
•Massage - applying pressure onto the
muscles
•Painkiller - a drug that reduces pain
7. •Physiotherapy - treatment for injury in
which you practice moving parts of your
body
•Surgery - a procedure where a doctor
cut open a part of body to remove or
treat an illness
•Vaccination - substance is put into the
system to prevent or treat diseases
8. •Health insurance - medical care is paid
by an insurance company
•Free of charge - costing nothing
•Check-up - a general medical
examination to see if you are healthy
•Entitled to - to have the right to
•Discuss something openly - to talk about
something in a direct & open way
9. •Constantly - all the time or often
•Publicly - openly, with people as witness
•I’d like to see homeopaths debating
publicly with their critics
•Reasonably - in a fair way, showing
judgment
•Thoroughly - very carefully
10. •Consideration - thinking about
something very carefully
•Scientific basis - showing true existence
according to science
•Worthless - without any merit, value
11. •Homeopathic pills are no better than
placebos.
•The placebo effect works.
•Homeopaths basically rely on the placebo
effect.
•Homeopaths are unethical. They give
sugar pills to unknowing patients.
•They endanger their patients by giving
sugar pills to prevent serious diseases.
Main Argument: A
12. Detail - A
•Four sugar pills a day clear up an illness
quicker than two sugar pills.
•An injection is more effective than a pill.
•Green pills are more effective for stress
than red ones.
•Brand packaging on painkillers increases
pain relief.
•Back pain, stress at work, medically
unexplained fatigue, common colds.
13. •Some homeopaths give patients sugar
pills to protect them from serious
diseases like malaria, but do not give
basic advice on prevention.
•Some give dangerous advice on
vaccines.
14. Main Argument: B
•It’s not reasonable to dismiss it just
because you don’t understand.
•People use homeopathy as a last resort,
and they improve.
•We shouldn’t dismiss millions of people’s
testimony that remedies worked for
them.
15. •She once had a temperature of 39 C. She
tried a remedy from snake venom. Four
hours later, she had no symptoms at all.
•Because it’s so diluted, it must be useless.
•She wants to see homeopathy better
regulated, homeopaths debating publicly
with their critics, and initiating more
research.
Detail - B
