What's the matter?

Click here to do a listening activity.

Medical Advice

Click here to listen to a conversation. Choose the right answer.

Healthy eating

Listen to this conversation between a mother and a school nurse. She is asking the nurse for advice about her son. 

Staying Healthy

Keren talks about her healthy lifestyle and what she does to stay in shape. Do the vocabulary quiz and the comprehension quiz. Then listen and read the script.


Try this quiz and check how healthy you are.

The Ebola Outbreak

Click here to listen to a discussion about Ebola and the use of experimental drugs. You have some vocabulary and you can see the script too.

Daily Exercise Leads to Better Health

Listen to the podcast and take notes. Then listen and read to check your notes (you can click on words you don't know to check the meaning).

Ten simple steps to a healthier lifestyle

Watch the video and take notes. Then check your notes with the script at the bottom of the page.

Healthy lifestyle

Watch the video: How to start living a healthy lifestyle. The script is at the bottom of the page.

Cancer treatments

Click here to see the video we watched in class.

Europe's first swine flu case

Do the vocabulary activities at the bottom of the page before listening to the news story. Don't look at the script and try to listen and answer these questions. Finally, listen and read the script to check your answers.

1. How old is the patient?

2. When did he come back from Mexico?

3. What symptoms did he have?

4. When was he isolated?

5. How is he being treated?

6. How has the health minister described his condition?

7. How many other suspected cases are there in Spain?

8. What's an urgent priority according to the minister?

9. Is Spain ready to fight the flu according to her? Why?

A healthy lifestyle

Listen to the conversation and do the exercises. Listen again and read the script.

1. A doctor's appointment. Listen to the conversation and do the exercise. Then you can listen and read the script and do the vocabulary activities.
2.What's the matter? Listen to the conversation and do the exercises.
3. A conversation at a pharmacy.
4. A conversation at a doctor's
5. Having skin problems. Listen to the podcast. First you'll hear the conversation slowly. Then you'll listen to an explanation and finally you will hear the conversation again at a normal speed.
6. Suffering from allergies. Listen to the podcast (same instructions as above).

Health problems

Vocabulary:
1. Learn some vocabulary about illnesses and remedies. Listen to the words and look them up in a dictionary if you're not sure about the meaning.
2. Check this website if you want to learn more medical vocabulary. You have the definition and an example.
3. What's wrong with...? Review some health problems here.
4. Learn the differences between: injure/wound/hurt/harm/damage as verbs/adjectives/nouns.