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Illnesses and injuries

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  • Name the UK and USA words for something you should put on a small cut.
    plaster / band-aid
  • This is a bubble of skin you might get after you burn yourself or if your shoes are too small.
    blister
  • You might feel like this if you stand up too quickly.
    dizzy
  • Name something that can be high, often because of stress or bad diet.
    blood pressure
  • Name a phrasal verb that means to recover from an illness.
    get over
  • This is un unpleasant symptom of food poisoning.
    diarrhoea
  • If a piece of food gets stuck in your throat, you might
    choke
  • If you cut your finger with a sharp object, it will
    bleed
  • Name an infectious illness like a bad cold that causes fever, pain and weakness.
    flu
  • Name something you might get if you eat food which is past its use-by-date.
    food poisoning
  • Name something you might get on the beach if you’re not careful.
    sunburn
  • How would you describe a part of your body that has got bigger because of an injury?
    swollen
  • When something you’ve eaten, breathed in or touched makes you ill and you need antihistamines, you have an
    allergic reaction
  • What should you do when you feel unwell? l__ d___ (on a sofa)
    lie down
  • If you drop very hot liquid on your skin, you will ____ yourself.
    burn