HEALTH ISSUES
SCENARIO
4.3
PREPARATION
1
Have you (or has someone you know) ever
experienced any of these health and well-being
problems? Do you know why you (he/she) had those
problems? How did you (he/she) solve them?
•
had headaches
•
felt run-down – lacking energy and feeling tired
•
felt homesick
•
been unable to concentrate on studies or work
•
felt stressed by exams or workload
SITUATION
2
a
4.3
Universities often have Student Health and
Well-Being Services which provide help and advice to
students who have a range of worries, problems and
minor health concerns. Mavis Much is a Health Officer
at a university. Listen to two students talking to her,
and complete Mavis’s notes.
2
b
What advice can you give the students in Exercise 2a?
2
c
4.4
Listen to the advice which Mavis gives to the
students, and complete her notes below. Was any of
her advice the same as yours?
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Name:
Abigail
Year:
Final
Subject:
Problem:
Nervous about exams + not
well.
Background:
Studies all
,
.
Goes to bed at
, gets up at
.
Has
meals a day.
Drinks a lot of
.
Does
exercise.
Name:
Dane
Year:
Subject:
Problem:
Feels
.
Background:
Not made many
.
Misses his mother and her
.
Only happy when goes to
, goes
there nearly
.
Losing
in his studies.
Wants
.
ADVICE
REASON
Abigail
Take more
.
a little.
Drink less
.
No coffee in the
. Coffee keeps you
.
Don’t take
pills.
Dane
Join a
club.
Make
.
Stop
home.
basketball.
American and
Change eating
.
Don’t go to
Need
.
.
Join a cookery
.
to cook.
Remi
nder
s
+
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