In this section you practise taking notes. First, you listen to someone talking about how to avoid accidents in the home. You then listen to a doctor talking about how to treat flu. Finally, you study vocabulary connected with medicine.

1 Avoiding accidents in the home

You're going to listen to a radio show about how to avoid accidents in the home. Before you listen look at the notes. They are a summary of what the speaker says about accidents in the home. Read the notes and think about what you are going to listen to and what information you need to complete the notes. Read the advice below on completing a summary.

Advice on completing a summary

• Make sure what you write fits the space grammatically. The speaker may give the information in a different form, or the words in a different order from the way you have to write them in the answer.
• The questions are normally answered in order in the listening text, so if you have answered question 2, you will not hear the answer to question 1 afterwards.
• Although marks are not deducted for spelling, try to spell the words correctly.
• While you are waiting for the listening to begin look at the spaces and try to predict what kind of information is needed in the space: e.g."Have non-slip surfaces on floors of the [] and []" obviously suggests the names of two rooms, so while you are listening, listen for the names of the rooms.
• You will listen to the piece twice. After listening the first time, study the questions you haven't managed to answer yet. What did you hear which might go in the spaces? Concentrate on those spaces the second time you listen.
• When you have finished, check your answers. Do they make sense, or are they obviously wrong? If they are obviously wrong, use intelligent guesswork together with what you have heard to write a more reasonable answer.

2 Flu symptoms All over the world, people get a very common illness called flu or influenza, usually in the winter. Match each of these possible symptoms of flu to the correct part of the picture on the right. 3 Flu treatment Listen to a doctor, Dr Marshall, talking about how to treat flu. Complete the notes which summarise what he says.

4 Medical terms for flu

Look at these extracts from the interview:

• You can quite easily diagnose flu for yourself...
• ...when there's a flu epidemic, doctors' surgeries are very full...
• ...he can't give you antibiotics because they don't work...
• ...your body loses a lot of liquid through sweating.
• ...you'll end up infecting all your colleagues with the flu as well.
• Flu is caused by a virus, and you can get vaccinated against it in September or October...

Now match each word on the left with its correct definition.

5 Medical terms for flu in context

Now drag the missing words into the correct gap.