Illness Collocations
I. Find five verbs and five nouns or adjectives to make illness collocations:
0. FEEL SICK
1. _________________
2. _________________
3. _________________
4. _________________
5. _________________
II. Put the letters in order to make collocations.
a). leef ciks
b). ese a rctood
c). amek na mpitntpoean
d). vaeh na oiranpteo
e). teg teertb
f). etka rome scexiere
III. Complete the text with collocations from exercise 2. Use the correct form of the verbs.
I was __0 feeling sick __ one day a few months ago. I didn`t think much about it, but the next day I was still feeling ill and I was also feeling very tired. It was the same the next day and the day after that. My wife told me I should __1 ________ . Now, I don`t really like going to the doctor`s, but I was starting to get a bit worried. Something just didn`t feel right. So I phoned the surgery that afternoon to __ 2 _________ for the next day.
The doctor did a few tests and and he seemed really quite worried. In fact, he was so worried that he phoned immediately for an ambulance. I was rushed to hospital, where they did more tests. Finally, after about five hours, a doctor came and saw me. He said I could have a heart attack at any moment and that I needed to __ 3 __________ immediately.
It was a real shock, but what could I say? So I followed the doctor`s orders and spent the next few months __ 4 __________ . I went for a check – up the other day and the doctor says I`m fine. I just need to eat a little less and __ 5 ________ .