'What Should I Do?'

Week1^st – 3^rdJuly

Hi again!

We started July finishing talking about health and illnesses.

·         Remember that we use “To have (or to have got) a/an ----ache” with

Headache – toothache – earache – backache and stomachache

·         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!

·         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!

·         Some people have problems for many years:

He has hay-fever every summer, from flowers and grass. He sneezes all day.

Her little brother has asthma; sometimes he can’t breathe.

·      There are illnesses you get in hot or tropical countries:

Mosquitoes can give people malaria.

When the drinking water is bad, people can have cholera.

·      There are also serious illnesses:

Cancer kills many people every year all over the world.

Di Stefano, the famous footballer, died of a heart attack yesterday.

We read an interesting text entitled ‘The Rainforest Children’

It is about a plant scientific that lives in the rainforest with three of his four children. His fourth child lives in London with his mother. His children don’t go to school, he teaches them himself. They live in a group of tents. They use a van to go from tent to tent because there are wild animals and it’s dangerous. When the children’s friends come to visit they feel like living an adventure!

And we finished the week listening to a radio programme where people phone in asking for advice.

People phone to the programme and they tell their problems and ask for help.

·      What should Barbara do about her jealousy problem?

·      What should Kevin do about his tight-fisted (mean) friend?

·      Should Catherine stop lending her clothes to her roommate?

We’ll find it out (discover) this week!

See you!