EXERCISE 2: READING: Read the following text: 
 
HEALTHCARE 
Is there anything more important than health? It is the resource for everyday life. The World Health Organisation defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease”. Human health has been the centre of scientists’ attention since ancient times. 
Health care is the prevention, treatment and management of illness. Our health is taken care of by professionals in medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. Combining medical technology and the human touch, it diagnoses, treats and nurses people around the clock, responding to the needs of millions. 
Nowadays health care has grown into an “industry”. General practitioners or (family doctors) become the first choice of many families when it comes to taking care of their health. Other services, including insurance, emerge as well, suiting every need of each and every person. 
Complete the sentences below using the words from the text: 
1/ According to the WHO, health is not restricted to being free of ___the absence of disease. _________. 
 2/ Professionals in health care manage, find ways to prevent as well as provide _____ treatment ______ for our sickness. 
3/ Human factors, as well as ______medical technology__________, play a major part in tending to our health. 
4/ Some people prefer to have family doctors, also known as _____General practitioners __________, take care of them. 
5/ A kind of service related to healthcare that has developed recently is _______insurance,_________. 
 
EXERCISE 3: GAP FILLING: Provide the correct form of the verbs below:

vaccinate – deteriorate – diagnose – examine – prescribe – discharge – prevent – recover  
 
1/ In poor countries patients are sometimes discharge from hospital before they are fully cured.
 2/ It is advisable that we go to see the doctor regularly to have our body prevent. 
3/ The patient was diagnose with heart disease. 
4/ All children should be vaccinate against infectious diseases such as measles.
 5/ The doctor prescribe a drug to the patient to help him sleep. 
6/ As soon as he recover from the surgery, he went to work. 
7/ Some diseases, such as AIDS, are still incurable. Therefore, it would be best if one examine them.
8/ Because of his alcohol addiction, the old man’s health deteriorate quickly and he died after one year of suffering