Health & Medicine
Small, solid, round pieces of medicine that you swallow with water (e.g., take one in the morning).
Tablets
A formal word for glasses that people wear to correct their vision.
Spectacles
Sweet drinks with a lot of bubbles (e.g., cola or sparkling water) are called ______ drinks.
Fizzy
A feeling of tiredness caused by moving quickly from one time zone to another after a long flight.
Jetlag
Red spots on your skin, often because of an illness or an allergy.
Rash
A small device put inside someone's chest to help their heart beat correctly.
Pacemaker
A medical term and adjective used to describe someone who is extremely fat.
Obese
Strong, sudden movements while the plane is in the air, which can be scary at times.
Turbulence
A phrasal verb that means "to recover from an illness or a cold" (e.g., it took me two weeks to get _____ it).
Over (Get over)
Medical operations inside a person's body where a very small hole is made, instead of cutting them wide open.
Keyhole surgery
A type of bread made containing all the grain, with nothing taken out, which is considered very healthy.
Wholemeal
A phrase meaning "unable to move from" somewhere (e.g., "My flight was cancelled and I was ______ ______ the airport").
Stuck at
What is the missing preposition in this sentence to avoid a common mistake: "A surgeon operates ______ a patient."
On
Something used to make you unconscious (asleep) so that you do not feel any pain during an operation.
General anaesthetic
A verb from the text that means "to improve or increase" something (e.g., Spinach can ______ the immune system).
Boost
A long journey, usually by sea or in space (e.g., "Learning English is a ______ of discovery").
Voyage
A sudden change in the blood supply to the brain, which can cause a loss of the ability to move body parts.
Stroke
An adjective that means "clever in a complicated way and able to do complicated tasks" (e.g., ______ hearing aids or scanners).
Sophisticated
The changes to our body and mind by which we grow old (e.g., Blueberries may slow this down).
Ageing process
A phrasal verb used when an airline pays for you to stay at a hotel overnight because of a delayed flight (e.g., "The airline ______ ______ ______").
Put me up