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Univerzitet u Zenici - Medicinski fakultet
Predmet: ENGLESKI JEZIK I, Handout I 11/10/2023
I Medical vocabulary: Tick the correct response
1. Your tonsils can get swollen when you have a sore
__ thigh __ toe __ throat
2. The _______ is a joint that connects the upper arm and the forearm.
___elbow ____ankle ___wrist
3. My Dad's little _______ was lost in the accident.

thumb toe shoulder
4. The patient lost so much weight his _______ were sunken in.
calves ears cheeks
5. We'll put a cool cloth on your _______ to get your fever down.
forehead tongue knees
6. Another word for "belly button" is

nipple navel uterus
7. The newborn is getting his _______ changed in the nursery.

buttocks nappy shin
8. She may never walk again because her _______ was so badly injured.
uterus spine finger
9. The _______ on his knee was scraped off when he hit the road.
joint gum skin
10. Your grandfather will be able to walk better after his _______ surgery.
chin wrist hip
11. The children's _______ is located on the fourth floor of the hospital.
vein transplant ward
12. Discontinue using this cream immediately if it makes you feel

itchy allergy sprain
13. The doctor wrote me a _______ for a new type of pain reliever.
prescription patient radiation
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14. You shouldn't drive because this medicine might make you feel
life-threatened light-headed malignant
15. Your blood count is abnormal, so you may have

amnesia anaemia dementia
16. _______ from this medication include nausea and depression.

Side effects Stresses Spasms
17. The _______ suggests that your wife is seventeen weeks pregnant.
sore therapy ultrasound
18. The patient has asked for some _______ while her family is visiting.
poison privacy scrub up
19. The physician will be monitoring your _______ to make sure it isn't cancerous.
pharmacist laboratory growth
20. You couldn't have inherited the disease because it is not

feverish allergic genetic
II Discuss these trends in groups:

– Body image problems amongst women
– Body image problems amongst men
– Body talk
– Compulsive exercise
– Dieting to lose weight
– Dieting to gain muscle
– Bulimia (vomiting and/ or using laxatives after eating to lose weight)
– Cosmetic surgery/plastic surgery
Try to predict a percentage for each of these things about a) the UK and b) Bosnia and Herzegovina:
– Men who talk about their own or others’ bodies
– Women who talk about their own or others’ bodies
– Men who have heard someone refer to their beer belly
– Men who have been described as chubby
– Men who have heard people talking about their moobs (man boobs)
– Men whose worries about their appearance have stopped them going to the gym
– Men who think their arms or chest aren’t muscular enough
– Men who think about their appearance at least five times a day
– Men who are on a high protein diet to increase their muscles
– Men who are on a diet to slim down
– Men who would give up at least a year of their life if they could have the ideal body weight and shape
– Men who would give up ten years or more if they could have the ideal body weight and shape
– Men who have made themselves sick to control their weight
– Men who have used laxatives to control their weight
Useful language
Around/ More or less/ (Very) approximately… Between… and…/ From… to…
Less/ Fewer than… (A tiny bit/ A bit/ Quite a lot/ A lot/ Much much) more than…
In the (low/ mid/ high) twenties/ thirties/… (Very) nearly/ Almost… (Almost) exactly…
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Read the text below and compare your responses to the percentages for the UK and then B&H.
Body image concerns more men than women, research finds

Anxiety about body image has led to some men conceding they would exchange a year of their life for
the perfect physique
More men worry about their body shape and appearance – beer bellies, "man boobs" or going bald – than
women do about how they look, according to research.
More than four in five men (80.7%) talk in ways that promote anxiety about their body image by referring to
perceived flaws and imperfections, compared with 75% of women. Similarly, 38% of men would sacrifice at
least a year of their life in exchange for a perfect body – again, a higher proportion than women.
"These findings tell us that men are concerned about body image, just like women. We knew that 'body talk'
affected women and young people and now we know that it affects men too," said Dr Phillippa Diedrichs,
from the centre of appearance research at the University of the West of England. She conducted the study, of
394 British men, which was commissioned by Central YMCA and the Succeed Foundation, an eating
disorders charity.
The survey revealed that men have high levels of anxiety about their bodies and that some resort to
compulsive exercise, strict diets, laxatives or making themselves sick in an attempt to lose weight or achieve
a more toned physique.
 80.7% talked about their own or others' appearance in ways that draw attention to weight, lack of
hair or slim frame.
 30% have heard someone refer to their "beer belly", 19% have been described as "chubby" and 19%
have overheard talk about their "man boobs (moobs)".
 23% said concerns about their appearance had deterred them from going to the gym.
 63% thought their arms or chests were not muscular enough.
 29% thought about their appearance at least five times a day.
 18% were on a high-protein diet to increase muscle mass, and 16% on a calorie-controlled diet to
slim down.
Rosi Prescott, Central YMCA's chief executive, said: "Historically, conversation about your body has been
perceived as something women do, but it is clear from this research that men are also guilty of commenting
on one another's bodies, and in many cases this is having a damaging effect." Men's high levels of body talk
were symptomatic of a growing obsession with appearance, she added.
Some three in five men (58.6%) said body talk affected them, usually negatively. Some 12% said they
would trade a year of life if they could have their ideal body weight and shape, 15.2% would give up two to
five years, 5.3% would forego six to 10 years and 5.3% would sacrifice a decade or more.
Some 4% said they had made themselves sick to control their weight, while 3.4% reported using laxatives
for the same purpose. Almost a third (31.9%) had "exercised in a driven or compulsive way" in pursuit of
that goal, although that might have been partly due to 52% of the respondents being gym members, when the
average is 12%.
Respondents, of whom about a quarter were gay men, blamed the media and celebrities for unhelpfully
reinforcing unrealistic ideals of physical perfection. "Girls want to be slim and males want to be big and
lean, and while it isn't a bad thing for people to want to look better, it has become more like a competition,
which has a bad effect on most people's mental health", said one respondent.
Alan White, a professor of men's health at Leeds Metropolitan University, said: "These findings are
worrying but not surprising. There's been a big increase in the numbers of British men having cosmetic
procedures such as a nose job or removal of breast tissue; that's gone from almost nothing to quite a
significant industry over the last 10 years. All this fuels the idea of the body beautiful and encourages a
quick fix rather than appropriate diet and physical fitness levels."
Discussion
1. Which information were you most and least surprised by?
2. Why do you think these two numbers are at that level?
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3. What things are similar and different in your country and other places you know about, do you think?
4. How much of your life would you give up to have the ideal body weight and shape?
5. What would you give up a year of your life for? What about two years, five years and ten years?
III You will be split into four groups. Each group discusses the questions below and the group leader
presents the responses/claims in front of the class:
Group 1 Educating people to eat healthier

1. Are people in your country generally knowledgeable about healthy and unhealthy foods, do you think?
2. Do you believe that people in your country learn enough about healthy eating at school?
3. What do you think about obligatory cookery lessons in secondary schools?
4. What can be done to make young people eat healthier food, do you think?
5. What change in people’s diets is the most worrying, in your opinion?
Group 2 Traditional food

1. How have people’s attitudes to foreign food changed over the last 50 years in your country?
2. Is traditional food becoming less popular in your country? Does that worry you?
3. How important is retaining a country’s traditional food culture, in your opinion?
4. Do you think there is a danger that your country’s traditional cuisine could disappear?
5. Some people protest against having American fast-food restaurants in historic areas. How do you feel
about that?
Group 3 Improving people’s diets

1. Do you think that restrictions on the sale of very unhealthy foods are a good idea?
2. Do you think your government is doing enough to improve people’s diets?
3. What information should restaurants be forced to make public to help people choose where and what to
eat?
4. Why do convenience stores not sell healthier food?
5. Are modern “health foods” really good for us, do you think?
6. What do you think about dieting?
7. Do you believe there are any “miracle foods” which are much better for our health than others?
Group 4 Modern food

1. Do you think the food available in this city has got better or worse in the last ten years?
2. Do you think that people’s attitude to chemicals in food is changing?
3. How do you feel about GM foods?
4. Do celebrity chefs have a generally good or bad influence in your country?
5. What are your predictions for people’s diets in the next twenty years?
6. Are supermarkets a mainly positive or negative change in people’s lives?
7. How would you feel about the government making it possible to have more street food in this city?
8. What things other than taste could affect how much someone enjoys a meal? How could a restaurant use
that information?

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Univerzitet u Zenici - Medicinski fakultet

Predmet: ENGLESKI JEZIK I, Handout I 11/10/2023

I Medical vocabulary: Tick the correct response

1. Your tonsils can get swollen when you have a sore

thigh toe __ throat

_elbow ankle _wrist

3. My Dad's little _______ was lost in the accident.

6. Another word for "belly button" is

7. The newborn is getting his _______ changed in the nursery.

12. Discontinue using this cream immediately if it makes you feel

15. Your blood count is abnormal, so you may have

16. _______ from this medication include nausea and depression.

20. You couldn't have inherited the disease because it is not

II Discuss these trends in groups:

Body image concerns more men than women, research finds

Group 1 Educating people to eat healthier

Group 2 Traditional food

Group 3 Improving people’s diets

Group 4 Modern food

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