Health and Body

Word List

Health and Body — Practice

Which word is it?

1. A pain in your head:  
2. A high body temperature when you are ill:  
3. A time arranged to see a doctor, dentist or other person:  
4. Something you take to get better when you are ill:  
5. A sign that you are ill, like a cough or a sore throat:  
6. A note from a doctor that lets you get certain medicine:  
7. When your body reacts badly to something, like nuts or cats:  
8. An operation in a hospital:  
9. A small piece of material you put over a cut:  
10. The time when you get better after an illness:  

Complete the sentences

1. I've got a terrible   — can you turn the music down?
2. He has a   — his temperature is 39 degrees.
3. I've got a dentist's   at 4 o'clock.
4. Take this   three times a day after meals.
5. A cough and a sore throat are common   of a cold.
6. The doctor wrote a   for some antibiotics.
7. I have an   to cats — they make me sneeze.
8. After the accident he needed   on his knee.
9. Put a   on that cut.
10. After the operation, his   took six weeks.

Health and Body — Answer Key

Which word is it?

1. headache
2. fever
3. appointment
4. medicine
5. symptom
6. prescription
7. allergy
8. surgery
9. plaster
10. recovery

Complete the sentences

1. headache
2. fever
3. appointment
4. medicine
5. symptoms
6. prescription
7. allergy
8. surgery
9. plaster
10. recovery