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Complete the following sentences with the word required. These are the words you will need:

TOOTHACHE; STOMACH ACHE; HEADACHE; COLD; SORE THROAT; COUGH; TEMPERATURE

1. When you suffer from a it is good to take hot honey with lemon.
2. You should go to the dentist and stop taking painkillers for your , perhaps you need a filling.
3. If you go on listening to the music at such a loud volume you will have a terrible .
4. The heating wasn't working, so she got a terrible and now feels awful.
5. Having a high is one of the symptoms of having an infection.
6. Eating too many sweets makes kids suffer from .
7. Tom has a very bad . Give him a glass of water, please!

Now watch the following video in which a doctor talks about a sore throat and how to cure it.

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