HEALTH IS ABOVE WEALTH: Consulting a Doctor

Exercise 1. Look at the pictures and say:
1) what made each of these boys consult a doctor;
2) whether the doctors examined their patients carefully;
3) what the doctors prescribed for their patients;
4) how the doctors helped.

Use the following:

• call out a doctor;
• visit a doctor;
• complain of ( a terrible pain in…);
• suffer from (a bad cough) …
• have a high temperature;
• take the temperature;
• have a sore throat;
• It ached to swallow (breathe, chew, move …)
• feel pain in …;
• listen to someone's heart;
• make a diagnosis;
• drink lots of liquids;
• stay in bed;
• have a 'flu;
• infectious disease;
• do a blood test;
• an eye test;
• take an X-ray;
• treat someone for an illness;
• cure a patient;
• prescribe an antibiotic or smth more complex;
• give practical advice;
• prevent an illness;
• have regular meals (exercises …);
• gargle one's mouth;
• not to read in the bed;
• examine someone's eyes;
• extract a bad tooth;
• regular visits to the dentist;
• promise someone full recovery within 5 days.

Exercise 2. Say:

• when you have to visit or call out a doctor;
  
• why it is necessary to get medical care during one's illness;
  
• what kind of advice doctors give you to cure you or help to keep you healthy;
  
• how often you have seen a doctor (or the doctor has visited you) this year and what the reasons were.
  

Exercise 3. Describe your visit to the doctor.