Human body, Health and Illness
Task 1 Human Body
ankle
arm
navel
chest
chin
ear
elbow
eye
fingers
foot
hand
head
heel
hip
knee
leg
mouth
nose
neck
shin
shoulder
thigh
toes
waist
wrist
Ex. 1: Label the human body diagram using the word list above.
Exercise 2: How are the following things connected in the body?
Teeth – jaw
Diaphragm – abdominal cavity – thoracic cavity
Ribcage – heart
Skull - vertebral column – vertebrae – intervertebral discs
Palm – thumb
Ankle – foot - calf
Exercise 3: Match synonyms
Clavicle
Shoulder blade
Sternum
Spinal column
Phalanges
Thorax
Tibia
Femur
Patella
thigh bone
backbone
kneecap
shin bone
chest
finger bones
breastbone
collar bone
scapula
Exercise 4: Match the organs with their respective systems:
mouth - spinal cord – blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries) – nails – joints – liver –uterus
(womb) – thyroid gland – hair – heart – kidneys – skin – muscles – brain – intestines – bones –
bladder - lungs – nerves – sweat glands
Circulatory Respiratory Nervous Musculoskeletal
Digestive Urinary Reproductive Endocrine Integumentary
Exercise 5: Listening
Fun science: The human body
(http://www.videojug.com/interview/fun-science-the-human-body#what-is-my-body-made-of)
Listen and answer the questions:
1. What´s my body made of?
2. Why do we get “goose bumps”?
3. Why do I get “brain freeze” when I eat ice cream?
4. Why does my skin look like a wrinkled prune after I take a bath?
5. Why do I sweat?
6. How do my eyes see colour?
7. What happens to food when I eat it?
8. Why do I need food?
Task 2 Health and Illness
Exercise 1:
What is the difference between being healthy and being fit; between a disease and an illness?
What does it mean when somebody says that they are “sick”?
Exercise 2: Make adjectives from the nouns below:
Fitness Health Illness Sickness
Exercise 3: Choose the correct word to complete each sentence:
1. Her condition …………….(deteriorated/improved) and she died.
2. He ……………..(relapsed/recovered) and was allowed to go home from hospital.
3. The patient made a full………………(recovery/remission).
4. I have been in ………………(poor/good) health for months and feel very fit.
5. It was a month before I …………(got over/ got better) the illness.
6. He seems to be rather …………. (unhealthy/ unwell) – his diet is bad and he never exercises.
(adapted from Glendinning, Howard: Professional English in Use – Medicine. Cambridge University Press, 2007.)
Exercise 4: True or false?
1. Mumps and chicken pox are childhood diseases.
2. AIDS has been eradicated from the world.
3. Diabetes is a contagious disease.
4. Parkinson´s disease is hereditary.
5. Flu is preventable.
6. Migraine is an incurable disease.
Exercise 5: Give examples of
acute/chronic/ serious/ mild/ degenerative/ occupational/ mental/ obscure/ deadly diseases.