Health and Medicine - KEY

1 AT THE DOCTORS

1. F
2. E
3. A
4. H
5. I
6. B
7. D
8. C
9. G

2 SYMPTOMS

1. Same
2. Same
3. Different: feel sick = feel nausea; be sick = vomit
4. Different: feel dizzy = feel as if everything is going round; feel sick = feel nausea
5. Different: swollen = thicker or wider than usual (often because of an injury or infection); broken = the bone is broken
6. Different: hurts = feels painful; cause physical pain to somebody; to injure someone or yourself; aches = has a continuous pain
7. Different: in hospital = staying there for some days as a patient; at the hospital = for any other purpose, including to see a doctor

4 ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

1. using needles
2. using plants and herbs
3. touching / pressing the body
4. touching / pressing the bones / muscles

VOCABULARY (Idioms about learning) - KEY

1a Which subjects do you associate with the sentences below?

1. Literature
2. Mathematics (Maths)
3. Languages (Polish)
4. Science (Biology)
5. History
   
6. Music
7. Philosophy
8. Art
9. Geography

1b Match the words in bold in Ex1 to the definitions below.
a9; b5; c2; d7; e8; f6; g1; h4; i3

2 Which idioms do the pictures illustrate?
A1; B9; CB; D3

3. Choose the best alternative.

1. hasn't got a clue
2. learned it by heart
3. picked up
4. bookworm

4. Correct sentences

1. Can you give ME a hand?
2. I have to brush UP ON
3. BY heart
4. ... he MADE a wild guess
5. I picked uo some Chinese
6. She knows the poems of SP inside out.
   
7. I haven't got A clue
8. He's the teacher's pet
9. bookworm
   

VOCABULARY (page 80) - KEY

Sorry, I have completely forgotten about this!!!

Look at the phrases below. Which two nouns in each group are correct? Change wrong combinations, adding the correct verb and / or changing the preposition where necessary.

2. revise fro an exam / revise a subject / study for a test
3. graduate from university / leave primary school / from high school (this is American English; in the UK, the usually say 'leave high school')
4. get a degree / get a good grade / take or sit / retake an exam
5. do homework / take / retake an exam / take a course (=study)
6. pass / fail an exam / a course / get a good result
7. hand in an essay / go to a seminar / hand in an assignment.
8. make progress / do coursework / do your best
9. make mistakes / make progress / do homework
10. study for an exam / study a subject / study a language