UNIT REVIEW: Health Matters

 1️. VOCABULARY – Health matters

🩺 Illnesses and health problems

Word	Meaning	Example
a cold	resfriado	I’ve got a cold.
a cough	tos	He’s got a cough.
a headache	dolor de cabeza	She’s got a headache.
a stomach-ache	dolor de tripa	I’ve got a stomach-ache.
a toothache	dolor de muelas	He’s got a toothache.
a temperature	fiebre	She’s got a temperature.

👉 Remember:
Most health problems use have got / had.

🏥 Places, people and objects

• doctor – médico
• dentist – dentista
• hospital – hospital
• medicine – medicina
• eye test – prueba de la vista
• dream – sueño
• medical check – prueba médica

✍️ Study task

Complete:

• When you have a toothache, you go to the d__________.
• When you are ill, you take some m__________.
• When you can’t see well, you have an e_____________.
• When you have a temperature, you go to the d_________________.

  

2️. GRAMMAR – Past Simple (Irregular verbs)

We use the past simple to talk about yesterday, last night, last week, etc.

⭐ Very important verbs

Present	Past	Example sentence
is / are	was / were	I was ill yesterday.
have	had	She had a headache.
go	went	He went to school.
take	took	Mum took a photo.
eat	ate	I ate pizza.
drink	drank	He drank water.
see	saw	She saw the dentist.
give	gave	Sam gave Joe chocolate.
do	did	I did my homework.
Write	Wrote	I wrote a letter to my grandparents
Learn	Learnt	I learnt to read at school
Speak	Spoke	I spoke French with my friends
Think	Thought	I thought about the problem.

👉 Important:
Irregular verbs do NOT end in -ed.
You must learn them by heart.

✍️ Study task

Circle the correct word:

• Yesterday I eat / ate an apple.
• She see / saw the nurse.
• We drink / drank pineapple juice.

 

3️. SENTENCE STRUCTURES – Talking about health

✅ Affirmative sentences

Subject + past verb

• He had a cold.
• She felt sick.
• They drank water.

❌ Negative sentences

Subject + didn’t + verb

• He didn’t go to school.
• She didn’t have lunch.
• We didn’t eat chocolate.

👉 Remember:
After didn’t, the verb is in present form.

✍️ Study task

Write one sentence:

• Affirmative: __________________________
• Negative: _____________________________

 

4️. FUNCTIONS – Giving reasons with because

We use because to say why something happened.

🧠 Structure

Sentence + because + reason

• He didn’t go swimming because he was ill.
• She went to the dentist because she had a toothache.

✍️ Study task

Complete:

• I drank water because ______________________.
• She didn’t go to school because _______________.

 

5️. READING – How to understand the text

When you read:

1.     Look for past verbs (ate, drank, went…).

2.     Look for food and drinks.

3.     Look for health problems.

🔍 Ask yourself:

• What did he/she eat?
• What did he/she drink?
• What problem did he/she have?

👉 Tip:
Underline verbs in the past simple.

 

6️. LISTENING – How to do it well

Before listening:

• Look at the pictures.
• Read the question.

While listening:

• Listen for key words (ill, dentist, water…).
• Don’t worry if you don’t understand everything.

After listening:

• Check: Does my answer match the picture?

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⭐ FINAL STUDY CHECK

☐ I know health vocabulary
☐ I can use past simple verbs
☐ I can make negative sentences
☐ I can explain reasons with because / to
☐ I feel ready for the unit test 😊