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Illnesses and injuries

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    English File Upper Intermediate
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  • Name something that can be high, often because of stress or bad diet.
    blood pressure
  •  15
  • Name something you might get on the beach if you’re not careful.
    sunburn
  •  15
  • Name a phrasal verb that means to recover from an illness.
    to get over
  •  20
  • When something you’ve eaten, breathed in or touched makes you ill and you need antihistamines, you have an
    allergic reaction
  •  15
  • What should you do when you feel unwell? l__ d___ (on a sofa)
    lie down
  •  15
  • Name an infectious illness like a bad cold that causes fever, pain and weakness.
    flu
  •  15
  • If you cut your finger with a sharp object, it will
    bleed
  •  15
  • If you drop very hot liquid on your skin, you will ____ yourself.
    burn
  •  15
  • Name something you might get if you eat food which is past its use-by-date.
    food poisoning
  •  15
  • If a piece of food gets stuck in your throat, you might
    choke
  •  15
  • How would you describe a part of your body that has got bigger because of an injury?
    swollen
  •  20
  • When you have a cold, you s____ and c____
    sneeze and cough
  •  20
  • Name three parts of your body that we use with ‘ache’.
    back, ear, head, stomach, tooth
  •  25
  • Name two ways of describing an injury that can happen to your ankle.
    a twisted ankle, a sprained ankle
  •  20
  • Name the UK and USA words for something you should put on a small cut.
    a plaster (UK) a band aid (USA)
  •  20
  • Name two verbs that mean 'to vomit'.
    to throw up, to be sick
  •  25