Text 20. OUR HEALTH.

When you are not well, you often have a high temperature. Your mother makes you stay in bed. She calls in a doctor. The doctor examines you; when he knows what is wrong with you, he writes out a prescription.

Some medicines are not nice to take, but you have to take them, because they will do you good.

After a few days, you get better, you leave your bed, and you don’t have to take any more medicine.

In a short time you will be in good health again, and you will go to school.

In a cold season, many people catch cold. When you have a cold, your nose is running, so you have to blow your nose and to wipe it with your handkerchief.

A bad cold with a high temperature is flu. When you have flu, you give it to other people around you, because it is very catching. So, when you have flu, you must stay at home.

When you have a bad tooth, you go to the dentist’s: he pulls out the bad tooth and looks after others.

Children who are in good health are rarely absent from school. Others, whose health is poor, are often absent.

Children and grown-ups must take good care of their health. If you want to be healthy, you must do morning exercises regularly, stay out of doors as long as you can, go in for sports, eat a lot of fruit and vegetables and other healthy food.