Irritating Illnesses

 Week 27^th - 29^th April

Hello! How’s everything? Are you enjoying the weekend?

This weekend is full of events to celebrate, isn’t it?

Yesterday was International Labour Day.

Today is 2^nd May, an important date for the Community (this is used to name some administrative division of the Spanish territory). People from Madrid and surroundings fought to keep independent from the French.

   

And tomorrow is Mother’s Day. Have you bought the presents for your mother, yet?

After this festivity introduction, let’s go into business (let’s start working)

Last week we talked about illness.

We use “To have (or to have got) a ----ache” with

Headache – toothache – earache – backache and stomach ache.

When other parts of our body ache, we use:

To have a pain in _________ or my ________ hurts / aches.

I have a pain in my arm or my leg hurts.

Remember to use possessive adjectives with parts of the body.

You can have a pain in your neck.

But somebody can be a pain in the neck! (or in another part of our anatomy which sounds less polite!) when they are really annoying!

With throat and eyes, we use the expression

To have sore /sɔ:/ throat or sore/sɔ:/ eyes.

We can also:

Have a cold / have a temperature / have a cough and sneeze.

When we have the flu, we usually have a temperature and all our body aches!

When we have a cold, we usually cough and sneeze!

More vocabulary on illness     Listening - At the doctor's

We reviewed the difference between “-ed” and “-ing” adjectives.

Somebody feels “ed” because something or somebody is “ing”. In other words,  “-ed” is how you feel and “-ing” is the reason why you feel like that.

She is bored because the film is boring.

·        What do you think is the most exciting sport to watch?

·        What music do you listen to when you feel depressed?

·        Have you ever been disappointed by a birthday present?

·        What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you?

And that was the end of our week!

See you on Monday! Have fun!