W24 - Elem

Week 24 – Elementary – Home Remedies

 

 

I)            Reading :

1)   What do you do in situations 1-4?

1.   You’ve got toothache.

2.   You feel tired and you have no energy.

3.   You’ve got a temperature.

4.   You've got a really bad pain in your back and you don't know why.

Do you…?

a.   Take a day off work?

b.   See a doctor or a dentist?

c.    Take some medicine?

d.   Ask someone for advice?

e.   Go to a pharmacist?

f.     Do nothing?

g.   Do something else?

2)   Pictures A—D show different remedies. Can you match them with these problems?

headache                toothache             a high temperature              stomach ache

 


3)   Read the web postings to check your ideas.

Home Remedies

Monica, Canada April 24 10.41

Black toast with honey

A friend of mine stayed in a hotel in India and the manager gave this to her for stomach ache. It really works. Just take a piece of bread and toast it until it's black. Then put honey on the toast and eat it. You don't really need the honey but it makes it taste better! It doesn't look good, but it can really help. So if you get stomach ache, try this remedy.

Heli, Finland April 23 18.03

A wet teabag

Here are my tips for toothache. You should put a wet teabag on the sore tooth. I always have a wet teabag in the fridge so it's there when I need it. Another idea: take a garlic clove and put it on the tooth. Both these ideas help me nine times out of ten. But if they don't work for you, you should go to a dentist.

Norma, USA  April 24 9.52

An onion

If you get a high temperature, use an onion. It sounds strange but it helps. Cut one large onion in half and tie half an onion to the bottom of each of your feet. You  shouldn't wear socks of course, just bare feet! I use this on my kids and it works every time. The remedy came from a relative from down south.

Lameed, Egypt April 23 16.15

Salt water

When I was a child, I got a lot of headaches and my grandmother always did this for me. Put a few drops of warm salt water in your ears. Don't use really hot water. Do this three or four times for both ears. Then lie down and close your eyes for about ten minutes.

4)   What do you think of these home remedies? Would you like to try them?

Why? / Why not?

 

II)         Vocabulary: giving advice

1)   You can use the imperative or should to give advice. Complete the sentences with

socks, teabag, water, feet, garlic.

You should take a _______________ clove and put it on the tooth.

You should put a wet ____________ on the sore tooth.

Don’t use really hot _______________.

You shouldn’t wear ______________ of course, just bare ____________.

 

2)   Think of advice for each of these problems:

A high temperature         headache            stomach ache       backache      toothache

 

III)       Grammar : giving advice with if

1)   If+ present simple, imperative

If you get stomach ache, try this remedy.

If you try the salt water remedy, don't use really hot water.

If + present simple, should I shouldn't + infinitive

If they don't work for you, you should go to a dentist.

You can change the order of if sentences

If you get stomach ache, try this remedy.  Try this remedy if you get stomach ache.

2)   Put the words of this sentence in order

if / an onion / get / a temperature, /you / use

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IV)        Homework:

Match problems 1-6 with advice a—f. There's more than one correct answer.

1.   you've got a very bad cold

2.   you're allergic to paracetamol

3.   your feet hurt

4.   you've got stomach ache

5.   you feel very tired

6.   you’ve got a problem with your knee

a.   you shouldn't eat a large meal

b.   be careful what medicine you take

c.    don’t go to work

d.   don’t go for a run

e.   put them in hot water with mustard

f.     you should go to bed early

V)          Now say the six sentences with if.

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