What’s the matter?

Talking about health problems and injuries

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How many times have you been sick in the past year?
Which of the health problems have you had recently.
What do you do for the health problems you checked?
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What are these medications for?

“You should take(put on/in) ……. If you have …………..”

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What should you do for a cold?
You should…
get some rest.
It's important to…
drink chamomile tea.
It's sometimes helpful to…
It's a good idea to…. take some vitamin C.
You have to …

A Look at these health problems. Choose several pieces of good advice for
each problem.
Advice
Problems
a. drink lots of liquids
1.a backache
b. get some medicine
2.a bad headache
c. go to bed and rest
3.a burn
d. put it under cold water
4.a cough
e. put a heating pad on it
5.a fever f. put some cream on it
6.the flu
g. see a dentist
7.a sore throat
h. see a doctor
8.a toothache
i. take some pain medicine
j. take some vitamin C
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What should you do for a cold?
You should…
get some rest.
It's important to…
drink chamomile tea.
It's sometimes helpful to…
It's a good idea to…. take some vitamin C.
You have to …

B Talk about the problems in part A and give advice. What

other advice do you have?
A: What should you do for a backache?
B:It's a good idea to put a heating pad on it.
C: It's also important to see a doctor and . . .

C Write advice for these problems.

a sunburn sore muscles an earache a cold

For an earache, it's a good idea to ...

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What are these medications for?

“You should take(put on/in) ……. If you have …………..”

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VOCABULARY: Containers
Are you clumsy or absent-minded?
Are you clumsy or absent-minded?
It happened while I was ….

while