health and illness

UNIT IHEALTH AND DISEASES HEALTH AND ILLNESS 1... PRASAL VERBS AND VERB-PREPOSITION COLLOCATIONS FOR HEALTH AND ILLNESS fighting off Trying to get rid of I’m fighting off a cold at the

UNIT I

HEALTH

AND DISEASES

HEALTH AND ILLNESS 1

PRASAL VERBS AND VERB-PREPOSITION COLLOCATIONS FOR HEALTH AND ILLNESS

fighting off

Trying to get rid of

I’m fighting off a cold at the

moment.

go done with

Has caught

(a non serious illness)

Peter isn’t in today; he’s gone done with flu

go over it recover from

Got better, recovered Getting better

(from more serious illness)

I had a virus last week, but I

got over it.

My husband is recocering from a major operation.

suffer from

died of

It is used for more long-term problems

I suffer from hay fever and

sneeze a lot when I´m near grass

or flowers.

My grandmother died of lung cancer last year.

Health and Illness Idioms

Under the weather

John is under the weather today

This is why he has not come to

work

slightly unwell

fighting fit To be at the peak of your physical and mental form, most as if you could fight a boxing match

You need to be as fit as a

fiddle / fighting fit to stand

any chance of winning the

London marathon

To be in good shape To be able to do a lot of physical activity

without getting tired

I think I'm in fairly good

shape and should be

able to swim 100 metres

round the coast to the next bay and back

in poor shape being quite ill

I’m in fairly poor

shape I don't think I'll

be able to walk from

the car into the church

without some form of

assistance

BRITISH HEALTH SYSTEM

In Britain healthcare is

paid for through taxes and

national insurance

payments taken directly

from wages and salaries.

HEALTHCARE

General expression for all the services offered by hospitals, clinics, dentists, opticians, etc.

NATIONAL INSURANCE

Tax paid by most adults which covers the costs of healthcare for everybody.

The government decides how much will

be spent on the National Health Service,

but a lot of people feel they do not spend

enough.

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

Bristish name for the service that covers hospitals, clinics, dentists,

etc.

Hospital treatment and visits to a family doctor (or GP) at a surgery or clinic are free, but there

is a prescription charge.

FAMILY DOCTOR

A doctor who looks after people’s general health.

GP = General Practitioner

SURGERY

A small centre with

just two or three

doctors

CLINIC

A large centre with several doctors and kinds of services.

PRESCRIPTION CHARGE

A charge for the

medication the doctor

prescribes, which you

pay at a pharmacy.

Dentists and opticians charges fees Private healthcare is available and a large number of insurance schemes exists to enable people to

’go private’.

’GO PRIVATE’

Choose private health

care.

WHICH IS THE ODD ONE OUT IN EACH GROUP?

1 diabetes bronchitis cholera

2 heart attach sore throat lung cancer

4 illness disease sickness

5 consultant doctor surgeon

6 hospital ambulance transfusion

7 heart disease surgery TB