Pain & Symptoms

Vocabulary

Reading
Part I

Part II
Night coughing
Here are descriptions of four possible conditions that can cause a child to cough in the night. Complete them
with the words below.

coughing up occur make sounds

accompanied get are wheeze
breathe has

Asthma
Children with asthma cough, and ____ when they breathe out. They become very short of breath when an
attack ____.

A cold
Sometimes a child ____ a cough and a fever with a cold. A bad cough can ____ a child vomit.

Croup
Children under three years old sometimes ____ croup. They have a sore throat and they wheeze when they
____ in. When they cough, it often ____ like a dog barking.

Pneumonia
The symptoms of pneumonia ____ a temperatureof over 1020F (390C), fast breathing, sometimes ____ by
vomitting and sometimes ____ blood.

Listening

Part I
Part II

Part III

Part IV
can you remember the questions that the
nurse asked?
1. How ____ it feel?
2. A little deformed, ____?
3. ____ it painful when you move it?
4. ____ move your toes?
5. How ____ feeling?
6. ____ sore throat?
7. ____ redness?
8. ____ going?
9. ____ dizzy at all?
10. When ____ sick, mostly?
11. ____ pain?

Speaking
Here are some basic questions to ask a patient when assessing pain. Match the beginnings of the
sentences with the endings.
1. Where does a. worse?
2. Does it b. it hurt?
3. When did it start c. does it hurt?
4. Does the pain d. describe the pain?
5. How much e. hurting?
6. Can you f. hurt all the time?
7. Does anything g. stay in one place or
make move around?
8. What makes it h. the pain feel better?

Part V
Match the beginnings of the questions with the endings.
1. OK, a. it hurt?
2. What b. Mrs. Hales?
3. Where does c. are you?
4. What about d. broken?
5. Let’s have a look – swollen, e. happened to you?
6. You’ve had an X-ray, f. haven’t you?
7. Anything g. your shoulder?
8. You arent on any other medication, h. isn’t it?
Write questions to go with these answers.
Nurse : ____
Patient : Not bad, thanks – a bit sore.
Nurse : ____
Patient : I fell off my bike.
Nurse : ____
Patient : Here, around my wrist.
Nurse : ____
Patient : Yes, I can, slowly.
Nurse : ____
Patient : Yes, very! I’ve got a cut on my leg – look
Nurse : ____
Patient : Yes, it is deep. Will I need stitches?
Nurse : ____
Patient : No, never – and I don’t want any!
Nurse : ____
Patient : No, I haven’t seen him yet.