English week 48

In school right now, almost everyone seems to be coughing, sneezing and complaining about being tired so what better time to study the language of health and illness?

First, we're working our way through the following vocabulary exercises:

Health & illness (En4)
Health, illness, injury (En5)
Health & Medicine (En 6)

When classifying illnesses according to "not serious", "more serious" and "very serious", one of our bright students wanted to write, "1 heart attack", "2 heart attacks" and "3 heart attacks".

Well, that's something the book's author probably never thought of. Perhaps he might respond as Luigi Patrovita did in the classic 80s film, Raw Deal...

With our newfound vocabulary, it would be nice to try some role play and of course, no English class about health would be complete without us learning some Doctor doctor jokes.

There's a serious side to our study of health. It's important to be able to describe symptoms and ask for help in English - it might even save your life.

Here are 2 songs related to this week's topic...

Madness, "Cardiac arrest"" (songmeanings.com)

Regina Spektor, "Chemo Limo" (songmeanings.com)