being ill

 

SPEAKING:

         Drill:   

Teacher: What's the matter?
Student: I've got a headache.
Teacher: Oh.. dear

Note on grammar:

The words for some minor ailments are countable: e.g. a cold, a sore throat, a headache. However, toothache, earache, stomach-ache and backache are more often uncountable in British English. In American English, these words are generally countable.

 

 

Teacher: What's the matter?
Student: I've got a headache.
Teacher: Oh dear!!
Student: What should I do?
Teacher: I think you should .......... take a painkiller
             I think you shouldn't .......lift anything
             I think you should ... ........stay in bed
             I think you should ............. see the dentist
             I think you shouldn't ........eat anything

 

Note on grammar:

 Should is a modal verb.  We use should to give advice.

            You look ill. You should go to the doctor’s.