Comunicación Escrita

1. Expresisions for describing symptoms.

A. Write the letters of the expression in the box that can complete each sentence.

(There is more than one answer for each one.) Then answer the questions below.

a. I have c, e, f, g, and j.

b. I feel d, i, l, m, n, and o.

c. I can’t stop a, k.

d. My b and h hurts.

• What part of speech follows have? Follows feel? Follows can’t stop?

Have: Nouns.

Feel: Adjectives, characteristics.

Can’t stop: Verbs

• What part of speech comes before hurts?

Nouns that to refer a place, in this case, in the body.

B. Complete these sentences. Use the correct form of have, feel, can’t stop, or hurt.

A. What’s wrong?

B. I feel exhausted. I didn’t sleep well last night.

A. Do you have a cold?

B. No, I‘m fine. Its Fred-he has the flu.

A. I’m sorry to hear that.

B. Yeah, it’s pretty bad. He can’t stop coughing.

It keeps me awake at night.

A. Mom, my stomach hurts.

B. Do you have a fever?

A. No, I don’t think so.

B. Do you feel dizzy?

A. No, not at all.

B. But you have indigestion. Hmm… What did you eat for dinner?

A. Potato chips and popcorn.

2. Have you tried hypnotism?

What do you when you have a medical problem? Who do you talk first?

If it doesn't be a big problem I prefer don't talk with anyone and take a medicine that I know, but, if I am really sick I tell about it first with my mother.

3. Read Jerry’s health history. Then look at the objects in the medicine cabinet. Which treatment would you use for each health problem? Match the sentences with the treatments below.

a. As a child, I had bad allergies. Every spring I got a slight sore throat. D

b. I also had stuffy nose. E

c. When I was eight, I fell out of tree and hurt my arm. H

d. That same summer, I was playing in the woods and developed a terrible rash. G

e. Now I’m an adult. I’m not so active because I sit at a desk all day. I frequently get headaches. C

f. Las winter I had the flu. I couldn’t stop coughing. A

g. My job is stressful, so I worry a lot. Sometimes I can’t fall asleep at night. F

h. My wife tells me that I have bad breath in the morning. B

4. Last-minute checklist.

• How long does it take you get ready for a night out with your friends? To go to school or to work in the morning?

Usually I do not really slow to get ready and go to college takes a little longer because I have to be transported from south to north through the city, and to go out with my friends I do in my town and did not take long

A. Listen. What is Bill getting ready for? Check the box.

a. A big date.

b. An overseas trip.

c. An overnight camping trip.

d. An important interview.

B. Listen again. Check (✓) the items Bill is going to take with him.

a. Aspirin ✓

b. Bandage ✓

c. Lotion ✓

d. Lozenges ✓

e. Mouthwash ✓

f. Nasal spray

g. Toothbrush ✓

h. Toothpaste ✓

5. Surprising syndromes

• Can modern life make you sick? Explain.

Yes, people who are

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