Extra Vocabulary: Parts of the Body

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Health: Is something wrong with... ?

Look at these dialogues:

A: Is something wrong with your body?
B: Yes, there is. I have a sunburn.
A: You should put on some lotion.

A: Is something wrong with your head?
B: Yes. I had a bump while I was playing football.
A: You'd better apply ice to reduce swelling.








Now play out some dialogues with your partner based on the following problems, using 'should', 'ought to' and 'you'd better' for giving advice:

1. I have a mosquito bite.
2. I have a bee sting.
3. I have an allergy.
4. I have a black eye.
5. I have a pink eye.
6. I twisted my ankle.
7. I stubbed my toe.
8. I have a blister.
9. I feel dizzy.
10. I have a bump.
11. I have a nosebleed.
12. I have a broken nose.
13. I have a runny nose.
14. I feel itchy.
15. I have a rash.
16. I have a burn.
17. I have a stomach cramp.
18. I have a stomachache.
19. I have a headache.
20. I broke my leg.
21. I have a cut.
22. I just got bit by a dog.
23. I feel like throwing up.
24. I am choking.
25. I have a cough.
26. I have a sore throat.

You can add any useful expressions you may find in the Comments section.

Extra Grammar: Make / Do

1. Look at these sentences:

I enjoyed making model planes when I was a child.
Make the tea, will you, while I do the washing-up.

There is no rule which says when to use make and when to use do, but if you look at the expressions above you should be able to complete these guidelines with one word or the other:

1. We often use ....... to talk about work.
2. We often use ....... to talk about constructing or creating something.

2. Would scientists do or make the following? Write the correct word in front of each one:

a. ............... a discovery.
b. ............... harm.
c. ............... a promise.
d. ............... certain.
e. ............... damage.
f. ............... an attempt.
g. ............... a plan.
h. ............... an excuse.
i. ............... better.
j. ............... their best.
k. ............... an experiment.
l. ............... a choice.
m. ............... a suggestion.
n. ............... progress.
o. ............... notes.
p. ............... an effort.

3. Write a short sentence about yourself using a form of do or make with each of the expressions below.

Example: I did my homework last night.

some mistakes - well at school - me angry - a noise - friends with somebody - nothing at all - some housework - everyone laugh - sure - an exercise - a phone call - the First Certificate exam

Extra Vocabulary: Health and Healthcare - Illnesses

- Health and Healthcare -

Illnesses
ache
earache
headache
stomachache/stomach ache
toothache
sore throat
cancer
cold
cough
flu
heart attack
heart disease
infection
infectious disease
pain
virus
germ
hay fever
rash
high cholesterol
high blood pressure
migraine

Minor Injuries
bruise
cut
graze
wound
sprain
fracture

Treatment
bandage
check-up
dose (of medicine)
drugs
injection
give some an injection
medicine
take medicine
operation
pain-killer
pill
plaster
tablet
tranquilizer
X-ray
eye drops
low-fat diet
antibiotics

People
dentist
doctor
general practitioner
midwife
nurse
patient
specialist
surgeon

Places
hospital
operating theatre
surgery
waiting room
ward

Verbs
catch
cure
heal
hurt
injure
operate on
prescribe
prescription
treat
treatment
vomit

Adjectives
fit
ill
sick
feel sick
be sick
healthy
unhealthy
painful
unwell
well

Other vocabulary
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Grammar: Reflexive, Intensive & Reciprocal Pronouns

Hi all,

Please, have a look at the following website for extra information on Reflexive, Intensive & Reciprocal Pronouns. Notice there are some exercises below that you can do & check on your own.

Irregular Noun Formations (gender & number)

Please, have a look at the following pages to revise the formation of irregular plurals of nouns:

- Irregular plurals (number) - In alphabetical order - Another list


Here you can find information on the gender of nouns:

- Gender of nouns

Extra Grammar: Compound nouns made with SOME, ANY and NO

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/Determiners7d.cfm

Compound nouns made with SOME, ANY and NO

Some +	-thing	-body	-one	-where
Any +
No +

Compound nouns with some- and any- are used in the same way as some and any.

Positive statements:

• Someone is sleeping in my bed.
• He saw something in the garden.
• I left my glasses somewhere in the house.

Questions:

• Are you looking for someone? (= I'm sure you are)
• Have you lost something? (= I'm sure you have)
• Is there anything to eat? (real question)
• Did you go anywhere last night?

Negative statements:

• She didn't go anywhere last night.
• He doesn't know anybody here.

NOTICE that there is a difference in emphasis between nothing, nobody etc. and not ... anything, not ... anybody:

• I don't know anything about it. (= neutral, no emphasis)
• I know nothing about it (= more emphatic, maybe defensive)

More examples:

SOMETHING, SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE
a. I have something to tell you.
b. There is something to drink in the fridge.
c. He knows somebody in New York
d. Susie has somebody staying with her.
e. They want to go somewhere hot for their holidays.
f. Keith is looking for somewhere to live.

ANYBODY, ANYTHING, ANYWHERE
a. Is there anybody who speaks English here?
b. Does anybody have the time?
c. Is there anything to eat?
d. Have you anything to say?
e. He doesn't have anything to stay tonight.
f. I wouldn't eat anything except at Maxim's.

NOBODY, NOTHING, NOWHERE
a. There is nobody in the house at the moment
b. When I arrived there was nobody to meet me.
c. I have learnt nothing since I began the course.
d. There is nothing to eat.
e. There is nowhere as beautiful as Paris in the Spring.
f. Homeless people have nowhere to go at night.

ANY can also be used in positive statements to mean 'no matter which', 'no matter who', 'no matter what':

Examples:

a. You can borrow any of my books.
b. They can choose anything from the menu.
c. You may invite anybody to dinner, I don't mind.

Reading Comprehension Practice

Here's some Reading Comprehension tests so that you can practice for your exam in June. Good luck!

Reading 1. Campodimele
Reading 2. Fed up? The Truth About Low-Fat Diets
Reading 3. Cigar bars and Smoking Clubs (Madrid) Key
Reading 4. Greeting Big Brother with Open Arms Key
Reading 5. You will start to feel very sleepy Key
Reading 6. Television addiction Key

Unit 9. Reported Speech (Extra)

Extra theory

Extra exercises

Unit 9. -ing/-ed adjectives

Complete the pictures with the correct forms of these verbs: frighten – tire – bore – amuse

Funny stuff - Listening: "Car Complaint"

Hi all,

As you may have noticed, these days I've been adding lots of extra stuff to the blog so that you can practice as much as possible before the E-Day (which, by the way, is taking place two days before D-Day. Strange coincidence, isn't it?).

Yesterday, a Group H student, Pedro, sent me a 'peculiar' listening practice exercise. Although the topic is a bit 'weird', you can still do it for a laugh. :)

Definitely, this is a perfect example where the well-known idiom, 'Shit happens', applies :)

Enjoy it:
Car Complaint Listening

The Environment: Green Day + NRDC: Moving America Beyond Oil

Pop-punk trio Green Day has partnered up with NRDC to help with a new campaign to Move America Beyond Oil. Via the website, visitors can send personal messages directly to political leaders, asking them to get behind solutions like improving fuel efficiency standards and setting more stringent CO2 regs for power plants.

And recognizing, perhaps, that "kids these days" are big fans of "the texting," NRDC has also added a new tool allowing messages to be sent to lawmakers and corporate leaders via cell phone by sending "GD" to 30644. (Standard text messaging rates probably apply.)

Below the fold, a video of Green Day talking about the issues and urging you to act. So get on your GD phone and do it already, if only for the I-just-texted-G-Dub coolness factor.

Source: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/21/143434/58



QUESTIONS:

1. Can you remember some of the words connected to the environment that are mentioned in the video?

2. According to Greenday, what measures can we take to save oil?

3. Billy Joe, Greenday's frontman, says:
'We've got the solutions, but............................................'

4. What do you do to save energy?

Unit 9: Work (Conversation)

Discuss the following questions:

1. What do you do?

2. How long have you been doing it?

3. Do you enjoy it? Why/why not?

4. Do you have the following things at work?

a. Variety
b. Responsibility
c. Friends
d. Good conditions

5. What would youd ideal job be? Why?

6. Have you ever done any part time jobs?

7. Number the following five jobs according to which is the most stressful and which is the least:

a. banker
b. miner
c. teacher
d. politician
e. cashier

8. Look at the following three jobs and decide who would do the things below most often.

a. a secondary school teacher
b. an army sergeant
c. the managing director of a small company

- obey orders
- fire people
- take risks
- mark essays
- attend meetings
- tell lies
- sign documents
- make decisions
- shout at people
- apologise
- cancel appointments
- negotiate contracts

Unit 8: What if...?

Dear students,

As a way of practising the 2nd Conditional, you can choose some of these questions and discuss what you would do in those situations.

If you prefer, you can post your answers in the Comments section, as usual.


- If you had only 24 hours to live, what would you do?
- If a classmate asked you for the answer to a question during an exam while the teacher was not looking, what would you do?
- If someone's underwear was showing, would you tell them?
- If one song were to describe your life, what song would it be?
- If you bumped your car into another car, but nobody saw you do it, would you leave your name and address?
- If you could ask God any one question, what would it be?
- If you could be a bird, what would you choose to be?
- If you could be an animal, any animal, what animal would you be and why?
- If you could be another man or woman for a day, who would you choose?
- If you could be invisible for a day what would you do and why?
- If you could commit any crime and get away with it, what would you do?
- If you could date a celebrity, who would you choose and what would you do?
- If you could hear what someone is thinking for a day, who would you choose?
- If you could travel back in time, where would you go?
- What would you do if you found the wallet of your next-door neighbor who you hated?

Unit 8: Grammar - Conditional Sentences

Hi all,

Here's a document that you can download, print out and do as extra homework, in case you need more practice on conditional sentences. If you need to have it corrected, you can bring them over and I'll have a look at it in the class.

Extra exercises on Conditional Sentences