Chapter 9

I have a sore throat.

• practice talking about illness using the proper vocabulary for medicine and types of common illnesses.• discuss what to do when sick.• share their experiences with sickness with a partner.• examine different types of medical facilities.• complete a health survey.

In this lesson, students will

We will begin by learning about a few common types of medicine.

When they have a headache.When they have a fever.When they have sore muscles.

When do people take these?

What are these?

They're pain relievers.

What are these?People should use these when they have a sort throat.

When should people use these?

They are throat lozenges.

What is this?

People should use a heating pad when they have a sore back.

When should people use this? It’s a heating pad.

What kind of medicine is this?

When they have a cough.

When should people use this medicine? It’s cough medicine.

Nose spray Eye drops

Other Types of Medicine

Skin Lotion

a colda sort throata headachea stomachachefevercoughbackachetoothache

감기목 아픔두통복통열기침하다요통치통

Vocabulary: What’s the English?

• I have a cold.• I have a sort throat.• I have a headache.• I have a stomachache.• I have a fever.

• a cold• a sort throat• a headache • a stomachache • a fever

Use the verb have for problems that begin on the inside of the body.

• I hurt my foot while running.• I hurt my arm playing tennis.• I hurt my leg riding my bike.

• My foot hurts.• My arm hurts.• My leg hurts.

Use the verb hurt for problems that affect the outside of the body.

Where do you go if

you have the flu?you have a tooth ache?you have a sinus infection?your child is sick?you need to buy medicine?

Go to the doctor.Go to the dentist.Go to an ear, nose, throat doctor. Go to a pediatrician.Go to the pharmacy.

• See a doctor.• Stay home.• Take medicine.• Drink lots of fluids.• Get plenty of rest.

• Stay home.• Get plenty of rest.• Drink lots of fluids.

What should you do when you

have a cold ? have the flu?

At the Doctor’s Office

taking temperature checking weight checking height

At the Doctor’s Office

getting a shot drawing bloodchecking blood pressure

What is it?

x ray

x ray of a broken bone

cast crutches wheel chair

• How often do you have colds? (never, often, every winter etc.)• When was the last time you caught a cold? • When was the last time you went to the doctor? Why?• When you are sick, what do you do?• Have you ever been hospitalized? If yes, why?• Have you ever broken a bone? If yes, how did you break it?• Have you ever had surgery? Do you have any scars? • Do you take vitamins? If yes, what vitamins do you take?• Do you smoke? How old were you when you started?

Pair work: Ask your partner the following questions.