Body Parts and Health Basic
Body parts and basic health vocabulary anchor the survival English every learner needs to handle a doctor’s appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a conversation about feeling unwell. Head, neck, shoulder, arm, hand, finger, chest, back, stomach, leg, knee, ankle, foot for anatomy. Headache, stomachache, sore throat, fever, cold, flu, cough, rash, pain for symptoms. Pharmacy, pharmacist, prescription, painkillers, medicine, plaster, bandage for treatment. Combined with verb phrases (feel sick, have a fever, take medicine, see a doctor, get well soon), this is the productive base for A2 health English.
This worksheet builds A2 fluency with body parts and basic health vocabulary in doctor-and-pharmacy contexts.
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What’s inside:
- Vocabulary box with body parts (15+) and common symptoms (10+)
- Picture-labelling task for anatomy
- Doctor-patient dialogue completion
- Pharmacy gap-fill with prescription-and-symptom vocabulary
- Personalised production: describe a recent illness and the treatment you had
Common challenges: Body-vocabulary boundaries differ across L1s — German Arm covers the whole arm-and-hand unit; English distinguishes arm from hand. Symptom-collocation accuracy matters: catch a cold (not take), take a pill (not eat), have a headache (not be). Sick (UK = vomiting, US = generally unwell) vs ill (UK general illness) is a recurring British/American confusion.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A2, in pre-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Health vocabulary is core to Cambridge A2 Key (KET) and B1 Preliminary (PET) Speaking and Writing. Part of the Health & Body collection — the natural next step is Health and Fitness Vocabulary Extended, which deepens the lifestyle and wellbeing dimension.
