Aches and pains

Course 5 Unit 3 Lesson B

Learning Objective
Today you’ll be able to:

•Discuss common health problems using if and

when
Aches and pains
• Is she feeling well?

• Does she have a problem?

• Does she look healthy?

• Is she sick?

• What’s the health problem?

She has a headache.
Aches and pains

sore throat
fever toothache
cough
Stomachache

allergies
flu headache cold
Vocabulary
I have a fever. I think I'm getting the flu.

• I have a bad cough. I'm coughing a lot.

• I have a stomachache. I often get stomach aches.
• I have a toothache.
• I feel sick. I often get sick when I eat shellfish.
• I hardly ever get headaches, but I have one now.
• I have a cold and a sore throat.
• I have allergies and I sneeze all the time.
 What’s the matter?
• There are seven health problems in the puzzle. Fin the other six.
What’s the matter?
Look at the picture. Write sentences with the words from the previous activity
Have and get
Have Get

• I have a headache. • He hardly ever gets headaches.

• She has a toothache. • I never get toothaches.
• He has a cold. • You often get colds.

Use “I have….” when you talk Use the verb “get” when you talk
about now to describe a current about things that happen all the
health problem. (e.g., I have a time. (e.g., I often get colds.).
fever.).
Have and get
Be + getting

• I think I’m getting a cold.

• Use the pattern be + getting to

describe the beginning or start of
a health problem.
About you
Complete the chart in your notebooks.

• I never… get toothaches

• I hardly ever…

• I sometimes…

• I often…
Remedy
• Listen to a conversation between Ken
and Nora.

• What’s wrong with Ken?

• What does Nora want to make for
Ken?

• Ken is sick, he has a cold.

• A remedy, hot vinegar with honey.
Joining clauses with if and when
What do you take when you have a I don’t take anything when I have a
cold? cold.
When I have a cold, I…
• Use when to talk about a situation
• Take cold medicine that is usual for you
• Drink hot tea with lemon and Simple present + when + simple
honey present
• Don’t take anything
When + simple present + , + simple
present
Joining clauses with if and when

What do you do if you get a really You can use if to talk about a
bad cold? situation that is not so usual.

• If I get a really bad cold, I drink If + simple present + , + simple

hot vinegar with honey. present
• I drink hot vinegar with honey If I
get a really bad cold. Simple present + if + simple
present
Unscramble the sentences.

• I take / a cold / when / medicine / I have

• I make / I have / hot tea with lemon / If / the flu,

Vocabulary
Feel run down Upset stomach

Weak or exhausted indigestion; another name for

stomachache
Vocabulary
Runny nose

If you have a runny nose, your nose

is producing liquid all the time
About you
• Write questions for a friend using when or if. Then answer your friend’s questions.
I feel sick
• Look at the pictures. Write questions and answers.
Thanks!