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 shop where you buy medicine:  
10. The time when you get better after an illness:  

Complete the sentences

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

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. pharmacy
10. recovery

Complete the sentences

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