Topic: Health & Fitness / Modal Verbs

Test: 45’

Maximum points: 42

Level: pre-intermediate

Topic: health & fitness / modal verbs

Teachers: Maja & Paul

(1)

Fill in the gaps.

Insert the 5 verbs given below by finding the correct order; adjust the grammatical verb forms.

[5 points.]

Have you ever...

...______sick?

...______injections?

...______your nose?

...______the doctor?

...______in a sanatorium overnight?

visit – have – become – break – stay

(2)

Complete the table below with 10 names of sports (or sports activities). Use at least 3 examples per column.

[5 points]

(3)

Read the following text and answer the questions below by taking into account what the text says. Do not invent your own theories.

How medicines help with mental illness

Medicines can reduce the number and severity of symptoms experienced by people with mental illness.

They don’t provide a cure, but they do allow for symptoms to be managed and so improve a person’s quality of life and help them cope with their condition.

While there are fewer side-effects with newer drugs, it can still be necessary to monitor their effects quite closely or to prescribe other drugs to manage side-effects.

Unless you want to put your life in danger, it’s always essential to ensure your psychiatrist knows about any other physical health problems that you have, and about any other medicine that you're taking.

If you have any questions about a drug you should discuss it first with your doctor or your pharmacist.

If you still feel that you want more information you could ask to look at a copy of the British National Formulary (BNF). This list, which is updated every six months, shows all the drugs a doctor can prescribe and gives information about:

•Doses

•Side-effects

•Interactions with other drugs

Your pharmacist may be able to help you look up the drug that you're concerned about.

[Source: BBC Health. 2011. Accessed 15 Dec 2011.

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a) What does the text above say about the probability of curing a mental illness?

[2 points]

b) How much information do you give to your doctor about your physical condition?Why do you give your doctor this information? [4 points]

c) What does the text say about the side-effects of drugs? [2 points]

d) According to the text: If Jack were mentally ill, what would be the first thing for him to do? [2 points]

(4)

Complete the sentences below; use suitable verbs, and combine them withthe following modal verbs

- should

- shouldn’t

- ought to

- must

- mustn’t

a) Liz has toothache. She ______a dentist. [1 point]

b) Your blood pressure is very low. You______your doctor. [1 point]

c) Chris is in the hospital. Here, he ______smoke. [1 point]

d) The pupil broke her leg. She ______to hospital. [1point]

e) My father had a heart attack. He ______work too hard. [1 point]

(5)

In which sentences can you use ‘should’ or ‘must’ and in which can you only use ‘must’? Fill in the gaps accordingly.[5 points]

a) A timetable ______be set for withdrawing the army.

b) Les isn’t home yet. He ______have been held up at work.

c) ‘I wonder how old Mike is.’ ‘Well, he went to school with my mother, so he ______be well over 50.’

d) If you smell gas, you ______phone the emergency number.

e)You ______try to visit Nepal – it’s a beautiful country.

(6)

What do you do to stay fit? Write 5-8 sentences.

[12 points]

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Total points: __

Maximum points: 42

Formula:{[attained points x 5] / max points} + 1

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