Complete the sentences and the text below with these phrasal verbs:

get over = recuperate clog up = obstruct Pick up= catch (an illness) fight off = defend against
throw up = vomit dose up (on/ with) = medicate broke down = to start to cry and become
upset Look After= to take care Take off: To remove specially clothes give up stop to do
something

1. A nurse to take care Look after sick people.

2. High fat foods can obstruct our arteries.
3. Most people _ catch _ a cold within two weeks.
4. She broke down and cried as she described the symptoms to the doctor
5. you can’t breathe and you feel like you’re going to _ become .
6. The human body’s immune defenses usually fight off viruses.
7. People say that you should recuperate with vitamin C
8. I always Look After colds
9. The doctor asked him to _ To remove specially his shirt
10. I was advised to stop to do smoking

When was the last time you came down with a cold?
How long did it take you to get over it?
How did you fight it off?

Children come down
with about 5 to 7 colds
per year and adults
average about 2 or 3.
women than
Dosing up on
antibiotics won’t fight
off colds because they
are viral, not bacterial.
Colds lay
low more A fever helps you to get
over a cold by by
men. activating the immune
system.

Our noses produce mucus to protect

the lungs from germs. The mucus Most colds let
then runs down your throat, out your up after seven
nose, or clogs up your sinuses. to 10 days.
 Choose the correct option.

a) flu a) sneeze a) headache a) cough a) faint

b) measles b) shivering b) stomach ache b) fever b) fever
c) stuffy nose
c) broken arm c) backache c) retching c) measles

a) dizzy a) itch a) toothache a) bleed a) measles

b) heart attack b) rash b) stomach ache b) broken arm b) asthma
c) swollen thumb
c) cold c) shivering c) headache c) cold

a) cough a) cough a) cold a) bleed a) sore throat

b) toothache b) sore throat b) retching b) rash b) stuffy nose
c) sore throat c) retching c) asthma c) faint c) cough

a) swollen finger a) sneeze a) flu a) sore throat a) headache

b) broken leg b) cough b) chicken pox b) cough b) earache
c) dizzy
c) backache c) stuffy nose c) headache c) toothache