UNIT 1A - HEALTH (LESSON 1)
PRELIMINARY QUESTIONNAIRE
To do this questionnaire you should try to do it without the help of a
dictionary and individually, both for the first two questions and for the first
computer research that we ask you. Afterwards, it would be interesting to
share with your group and finally look up the concepts in a dictionary or
encyclopaedia and compare the results.
1. Try to define the following concepts: health, illness, fitness.
• Based on what you have written, what would you say your current state of
health is like? (Brand the option that you consider and explain briefly your
answer).
Bad - Regular - Good - Very good
2. Make a list of the medical specialties you know and say what each one is
for.
3. Try to find out, with the help of the Internet, the meaning of the words
aspirin and acetylsalicylic acid, the relationship between them and the prices
of different brands.
➢ Read the first conversation, then listen to the second one.
CONVERSATION 1 🎧
This is a conversation between a doctor and a patient:
Doctor:Good morning!
Patient: Good morning!
Doctor. What happens?
Patient: Look, I woke up this morning congested, I have a headache, I'm
tired, my throat hurts, I have chills, I have taken my temperature and I
have a fever of 37o, nausea and dizziness.
The doctor examines him, takes his vital signs, listens to him, sees his
throat and tells him that he is a young healthy person.
Doctor: The prescription consists of some painkillers and staying in bed
for several days, since the cold lasts “a week with medication and seven
days if you don't take medication". He tells him that if he doesn't get
better in a few days or other symptoms appear, he should return to the
doctor’s.
CONVERSATION 2 🎧
➢ Now, share your opinion answering the questions:
1.- How do patients feel in both conversations?
2.- Do you think that they are healthy people?
3.- What do you think about the prescriptions?
