Ex-Liverpool Player Stephen Darby deals with a serious disease

Former Liverpool footballer Stephen Darby

has spoken out one year on from being
diagnosed with motor neurone disease
about how it is affecting his wife and fellow
footballer Steph Houghton. Darby, 31, was
told he had the incurable neurological
condition just months after getting married
to England women's captain Steph
Houghton in 2018.

The ex-Bradford City and Bolton Wanderers

star says the 'brutal disease' and its 'terrible
prognosis' of two to five years is having a
devastating effect on his family. He told the BBC: 'It doesn't just affect me. It affects my wife, my
mum and dad, my brother, family, friends. It affects everyone.

Describing his symptoms on the charity's website he writes: Over the course of the last 2 and a half
years, symptoms have been progressing slowly.

'I have weakness in both hands and twitching in my arms, legs, chest and tongue.' He added:
'Starting the foundation was a way of turning something so devastating into something positive.

What is Motor Neurone Disease?

The NHS describes motor neurone disease (MND) as: 'An uncommon condition that affects the brain
and nerves. It causes weakness that gets worse over time.' The weakness is caused by the
deterioration of motor neurons, upper motor neurons that travel from the brain down the spinal
cord, and lower motor neurons that spread out to the face, throat and limbs.

Target words:
- Bu bölümde öğrenmenizi hedeflediğimiz ‘’hedef kelimeler’’.

speak out: to publicly speak, to express thoughts or feelings.

⇒ dile getirmek, düşüncelerini söylemek

diagnose: to recognize and name the exact character of a disease or a problem, by examining it

⇒ teşhis etmek

disease: illness of people, animals, plants, etc

⇒ hastalık

incurable: not able to be cured

 ⇒ tedavi edilemez (dermansız)

neurological: relating to nerves

⇒ sinirsel

brutal: cruel, violent, and completely without feelings

⇒ vahşi, acımasız

prognosis: a doctor's judgment of the likely or expected development of a disease or of the chances
of getting better

⇒ hastalığın seyri için öngörü

symptom: any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a particular disease

⇒ belirti

twitching: making a movement with a part of body, usually not intending to.

⇒ seğirme, kas seğirmesi

foundation: an organization that gives or collects money to be used for special purposes, especially
for charity or for medical research

⇒ yardım kuruluşu

devastating: making someone feel extremely sad or shocked

⇒ yıkıcı, şok edici

nerves: parts inside your body which look like threads and carry messages between the brain and
other parts of the body

⇒ sinirler

get worse: get + comparative = a situation, disease, problem becoming worse than usual

⇒ kötüye gitmek

deterioration: (formal) getting worse

⇒ bozulma, kötüye gitme

Sizin Bilmediğiniz Kelimeler:
--Metin üzerinde hedef kelimeler haricinde bilmediğiniz kelimeleri ve anlamlarını sözlüklerden
bularak buraya yazınız. – (Türkçeleri yeterlidir)

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

A) Exercise: Öğren!
Fill in the blanks with the target words!

speak out diagnose disease

incurable neurological brutal
prognosis symptom twitching
foundation devastating nerve
get worse deterioration

1. Alzheimer's disease is a _________________ disorder, which means it’s about the nerves we have.

2. He was imprisoned in 1945 for the _____________ murder of a twelve-year-old girl. How can ‘’a
person’’ do that?

3. He's complaining of all the usual flu ___________________ - a high temperature, headache, and
so on.

4. Hearing the news that his father died was __________________ for her.

5. ‘’Kızılay’’ is an official __________________ which has been helping the people in need.

6. Cancer is not ___________________, there is just no particular cure for different types of it. Some
people get better after receiving treatment.

7. The doctor’s ______________ is that you will have a full recovery in 3 weeks. See? There is nothing
to be worried about.

8. There were a lot of rumors about the coach of the team, but he finally ________________ to the
press and said that he was going to continue doing his job.

9. I am sorry to say that but your patient’s situation is ______________ day by day. You should be
ready to hear the bad news soon.
10. Most immediately, these developments has made a new and serious _____________ in the U.S.–
Turkish alliance.

11. A: Why are you shaking your hands? B: I am not doing it on purpose, it’s ________________.

12. I injured a _________________ in my foot playing volleyball. Doctors say that I need surgery to
repair it.

13. Has hasn’t been able to sleep properly lately, he went to a hospital and he was ______________
with Insomnia.

14. Thousands of people in this area are dying from hunger and _________________.

B) Match the Words! Pekiştir!

speak out diagnose disease

incurable neurological brutal

prognosis symptom twitching

foundation devastating nerve

get worse deterioration

1) __________________: an organization that gives or collects money to be used for special

purposes, especially for charity or for medical research
2) __________________: parts inside your body which look like threads and carry messages
between the brain and other parts of the body
3) __________________: (formal) getting worse
4) __________________: get + comparative = a situation, disease, problem becoming worse
than usual
5) __________________: relating to nerves
6) __________________: not able to be cured
7) __________________: illness of people, animals, plants, etc
8) __________________: cruel, violent, and completely without feelings
9) __________________: to recognize and name the exact character of a disease or a problem,
by examining it
10) __________________: making someone feel extremely sad or shocked
11) __________________: making a movement with a part of body, usually not intending to.
12) __________________: a doctor's judgment of the likely or expected development of a
disease or of the chances of getting better
 13) __________________: any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a
particular disease
14) __________________: to publicly speak, to express thoughts or feelings.

C) Write a sentence of your own for each of the words you’ve just learned! ++ Write
Turkish meanings of the words. – Uzmanlaş!

- Öğrendiğiniz kelimelerin Türkçe karşılıklarını hiçbir yere bakmadan yazın, daha sonra bu
kelimelerle en az 1 tane örnek cümle yazın.

brutal: _____________________________________________________________________.

incurable: __________________________________________________________________.

speak out: __________________________________________________________________.

disease: ____________________________________________________________________.

symptom: __________________________________________________________________.

foundation: _________________________________________________________________.

devastating: ________________________________________________________________.

get worse: __________________________________________________________________.

nerves: ____________________________________________________________________.

deterioration: _______________________________________________________________.

diagnose: ___________________________________________________________________.

neurological: ________________________________________________________________.

prognosis: __________________________________________________________________.

twitching: __________________________________________________________________.
CEVAP ANAHTARI:

A: neurological, brutal, symptoms, devastating, foundation, incurable, prognosis, spoke out, getting
worse, deterioration, twitching, nerve, diagnosed, disease

B: foundation, nerves, deterioration, get worse, neurological, incurable, disease, brutal, diagnose,
devastating, twitching, prognosis, symptom, speak out

C: Kendi cümlelerinizi yazınız, kontrole ihtiyaç yok. Kelime anlamlarını ise ‘target words’ kısmından
kontrol edebilirsiniz.