Health and illness

Exercise 26.3

Complete the collocations. You are given the first letter of the missing words.

1. Flu is not a illness for most people, but it can be - for elderly people who are weak and who haven’t been vaccinated.
2. Patients who are ill often prefer to die at home surrounded by their loved ones.
3. I’m not in pain, it’s just a ache in my back tooth. I hate going to the dentist’s.
4. The children have a diet, with lots of fruit and vegetables and only a few sweet things now and then.
5. Turn that music down! I’ve got a headache!
6. You shouldn’t waste the doctor’s time with ailments. Get something at the chemist’s instead.
7. I need to adopt a proper fitness programme and to to it. I was in good a year ago but then I became a bit lazy.
8. Diseases which are now will be beaten one day if scientists continue to make progress with drugs and genetic science.
9. My aunt was ill when she was on holiday. Apparently, she was in pain. Luckily she had travel insurance.
10. I believe in eating and I try to do exercise every other day.
11. My doctor me a new drug to my backache. It worked!
12. I took a day off work yesterday. It was nothing serious, just a cold.