Unit 2 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. body to label 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 Exercise 3: Match synonyms Clavicle Scapula Sternum Spinal column Phalanges Thorax Tibia Femur Patella thigh bone backbone kneecap shin bone chest finger bones breastbone collar bone shoulder blade Task 2 Body systems Exercise 1: Match the description with one of the systems. skeletal digestive integumentary respiratory nervous reproductive urinary muscular circulatory endocrine 1. The ____________ system supports and protects, regulates body temperature, makes chemicals and hormones, and acts as a sense organ. 2. The _____________ system supports and protects, makes movement easier (with joints), stores minerals, and makes blood cells. 3. The __________ system brings about body movement, maintains posture, and produces heat. 4. The ________________ system allows a person to communicate with the environment and integrates and controls the body. 5. The _____________ system secretes hormones into the blood that serve to communicate with, integrate, and control mechanisms. 6. The ____________system transports substances through the body and establishes immunity. 7. The __________system exchanges oxygen from the air for the waste product carbon dioxide, which is eliminated from the body. 8. The ____________ system breaks down food, absorbs nutrients, and excretes solid waste. 9. The _________ system cleans waste products from blood in the form of urine and maintains electrolyte balance, water balance, and acid-base balance. 10. The ___________ system produces sex cells, allows transfer of sex cells and fertilization to occur, permits development and birth of offspring, nourishes offspring, and produces sex hormones. Exercise 2: Match the organs with their respective systems: mouth - spinal cord – blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries) – nails – joints – liver – urinary bladder – uterus (womb) – thyroid gland – hair – heart – kidneys – ovaries – pancreas – trachea (windpipe) – tendons – skin – testes – muscles – brain – intestines – bones – lungs – nerves – sweat glands – oesophagus (gullet, food pipe) – larynx (voice box) Circulatory Respiratory Nervous Musculoskeletal Digestive Urinary Reproductive Endocrine Integumentary Exercise 3 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 3 Health and Illness Exercise 1: 1. What is the difference between being healthy and being fit? 2. What is the difference between a disease and an illness? 3. What does it mean when somebody says that they are “sick”? Exercise 2: Match words to make collocations: Complete Feel Get Poor Travel sickness health remission sick over 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.