1 Look and match. Then listen, check and repeat.
Feel ill (7)
feel better (8)
get a prescription (10)
take some pills (12)
have an injection (11)
have a fever (1)
have an X-ray (9)
have an operation (3)
do some research (6)
win a prize (4)
make a discovery (5)
carry out an experiment (2)
2 Read the story in Lesson 5 again. How many of the phrases from Activity 1 can you find?
got a prescription
taking the pills
feeling better
do some research
carried out experiments
made many important discoveries
won the Nobel Prize
3 Answer the questions about the story.
1 Who felt ill? Mariam
2 What medicine did she take? Penicillin/antibiotics
3 Who first discovered this? Alexander Fleming
4 What happened to Dorothy Hodgkin in 1964? She won the Nobel Prize.
4 Look at the grammar table. Then read and circle the correct options to complete the rules.
When we ask a question politely, we can use phrases such as Can you tell me …
I wonder … / Do you know … at the start / end of the question.
For questions starting with question words (what, where, when, how), we use the same question word / if or whether.
For yes / no questions, we use the same question word / if or whether.
5 Listen. In your notebook, write the polite questions each person asks.
Can you tell me if you have the medicine I need?
Could you tell me how often I need to take the pills?
Do you know if I need to go to the hospital?
I wonder if you can tell me if my baby needs to have any injections today.
