STD 5 ENGLISH TERM 2

UNIT 16: TAKE GREAT CARE

THEME: HEALTH AND HYGIENE.

Look at the picture above.
1. What can you see?
2. Is there anything that you know?
3. Where do you find these items?

Read the poem’ TAKE GREAT CARE’ in your primary English pupils’ book pages 127-128.

Try to find out the meanings of the following words as used in the passage.

Vocabulary.

Sickness, illness, health, ill, sick thermometer) thermogun) temperature, cough headache, toothache, stomachache, fever, ward, in-patient, out-patient, HIV-AIDS, injection, injury, immune, immunization, sores, slim, thin.

LANGUAGE CONTENT.

1. (a) use of almost + adjective.

Examples:

-my bottle of medicine is almost empty.

-Our class is almost full

- The river is almost flooded.

(b) use of:

Make/see/feel/hear/watch

Examples:

• The nurse made me take the bitter medicine.
• I felt the doctor touch my forehead.
• The doctor made her get the injection.
• The teacher saw him take the bottle.
• The teacher watched him get the injection.

(c) present perfect tense.

Examples:

-I have always brushed my teeth after meals.

-The lesson has begun.

-Kinyua has gone to the market.

-My mother has prepared supper.

-pupils have gone out for break.

-Many people in U.S.A have died of COVID 19.

NOTE:

Present perfect tense is formed from the verb: has/have + past participle.

Has gone

Has eaten

Has finished

Have sung

It’s used to show that the action has already been done.

EXERCISE:

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES WITH THE CORRECT WORD.

2. He dropped the knife on ……………. leg

3. He had an…………..and went to hospital.

4. The doctor used a ………..to check temperature.

5. The nurse gave him an………………

6. Give another word that means the same as sickness.

7. Give another word that means the same as people who are sick in hospital.

8. Give three different types of people who may be found in a hospital.

9. The patient…………gone to hospital.

10. The doctor has …………. the patient some medicine.

11.  The patient has ………..better.

12.The patient has …………. fever.

13. The nurses have ………….to the injection room.

14. The in-patient has………………many days in hospital.

15. The children have …………milk.

16. The doctor has……………. great care of the patients.

CHOOSE THE CORRECTLY STRUCTURED SENTENCE.

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