A. Look at the picture.

Then fill in the blanks with the vocabulary

words.

1. This pushes your blood though your body: Heart

2. These carry blood around your body: Artery, Vein
3. These bring around your body: Lungs
4. This covers the outside of your body: Skin
5. This makes your body move: Muscle
6. This lets you think and remember: Brain
7. This does many different things: Liver
8. These digest food: Small Intestine, Large Intestine, Stomach
9. This supports your body: Bone

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A. Complete the sentences. Use comparatives, superlatives, equatives,
and the words in parentheses.

1. Walking for exercise is better (good) than running.

2. Smoking is the worse (bad) thing you can do to your lungs.
3. Drinking alcohol is more harmful (harmful) to your liver than
eating junk food.
4. I think vegetables are the more nutritious (nutritious) kind of
food for your brain.
5. Swimming is not the more quick (quick) way to build up your
arm muscles.
6. Some elderly people are healthier (healthy) as some young
people.

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Language Expansion: Everyday Ailments

For every common health problem, there´s a product for sale to cure it. Are
you suffering from insomnia? There´s a pill to help you fall asleep. Did a
pimple appeas on you face? There´s a cream for that. It you have a headache
after a long day at work, or perhaps a sore throat and fever, you can buy
something to make you feel better. Do you have indigestion because you ate
the wrong kind of food? There´s a pill to end the burning feeling in yout
stomach. It foof won´t stay in your stomach at all, you can take some medicine
to end the nausea. Or maybe you ate too fast, so now you have the hiccups.
Well, you won´t find anything at the pharmacy for hiccups, but there´s
probably a company working on a new product right now.

A. Write the words in blue next to their definition.

1. Insomnia not being able to sleep

2. Fever high body temperature
3. Hiccups a repeated sound in your throat, often from eating too
quickly
4. Nausea a feeling like you are going to vomit
5. Indigestion pain in the stomach because of something one has
eaten
6. Pimple a small raised spot on the skin
7. Headache a pain in your head
8. Sore throat a general feeling of pain in the throat

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A. Match the actions with the reasons.

1. Get plenty of sleep at night (b) a. to help them fall asleep.

2. Eat fruits and vegetables (e) b. to find out the best remedy
for
your problem.

3. Take a nap (c) c. to increase your concentration

during the day.

4. Give children warm milk (a) d. do make your muscles stronger.

5. Ask your doctor questions (f) e. to get enough vitamins in

your
diet.
6. Lift weights d f. to cure a headache.

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A. Talk to a parther. Which of these can make you sick?

 Snaking hands with someone

 Being outside in cold weather
 Eating food
 Riding a crowded bus
 Touching your eye
 Playing a computer game

B. Circle T for true or F for false.

1. Viruses can only live inside people or animals. F

2. All bacteria cause illnesses. F
3. Washing your skin can prevent some illnesses. (T)
4. Germs can enter the body through the eyes. (T)
5. After they kill germs, antibodies stay in the body (T)
6. Vaccines kill germs in the body. (T)

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