Lesson 12 - Health
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The Body in English
Vocabulary

Video - The Body

Watch a video from "The English Minute" that teaches you how to say the parts of the body in English. The English Minute (www.theenglishminute.com) is a website with short lessons that you can study on your mobile phone.

 

Parts of the human body with pronunciation

Click on the body part to hear the pronunciation and repeat it.

Note: The irregular plural form of "foot" is "feet."

 

Exercise - Parts of the human body in English

Identify the parts of the body.

1.  head 2.    3.    4.    5.    6.    7.    8.    9.    10.   11.

 

Health Problems

► I have a . . .
      ► headache - pain in your head
      ► stomachache - pain in your stomach
      ► backache - pain in your back
      ► toothache - pain in a tooth
      ► earache - pain inside your ear
      ► cold - a common illness that causes a runny nose, cough, or sore throat
      ► fever - when your body temperature is higher than normal
      ► cough - to push air out of your lungs with a sudden sound, often when you are sick

 

Exercise - Health problems

Select the correct word.

1.   headache earache backache toothache stomachache cold fever cough  

 

2.   headache cold backache toothache earache stomachache fever cough  

 

3.   fever stomachache backache toothache earache cold headache cough  

 

4.   fever stomachache backache toothache earache cold headache cough  

 

5.   cold stomachache backache toothache earache headache fever cough  

 

6.   headache stomachache cold toothache earache backache fever cough  

 

7.   fever stomachache backache toothache earache cold headache cough  

 

8.   earache stomachache backache toothache headache cold fever cough  

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Writing

Do you have health problems? Describe them using the vocabulary from this lesson.

     example  I have a headache. My arm hurts.

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The verb "should"

 

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