Here you can find some questions you can ask your partner during conversation about health:

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1. Do you care about your health ? How?

2. Do you always eat healthy food?

3. Do you eat a lot of vegetables and fruits ?

4. Do you often eat fruits?

5. Do you drink a lot of alcohol?

6. Do you often eat junk food ?

7. Do you smoke ?

8. Have you ever been on a diet ?

9. How do you spend your free time?

10.   Do you do any sport? What sport?

11.   Do you exercise ? If so, what kind of exercise do you do?

12.   Are you muscular ?

13.   Do you have a good physical condition ?

14.   Are you a member of a fitness club?

15.   Do you often catch a cold ?

16.   Do you take medicine when you catch a cold?

17.   Do you take a lot of medicine?

18.   Do you often take pain-killers ?

19.   Do you have regular medical check-ups ?

20.   How often do you visit a dentist?

21.   Have you ever had braces on your teeth?

22.   Do you suffer from headaches ?

23.   Do you suffer from backaches ?

24.   Do you suffer from any other aches?

25.   Do you suffer from allergies ?

26.   Have you ever been to hospital? If so, what happened?

27.   Have you ever lost consciousness ?

28.   How long do you normally sleep at night?

29.   Do you take naps during the day?

30.   Do you suffer from insomnia ?

31.   Do you often have to take sleeping pills ?

32.   Have you ever broken a bone ?

33.   Have you ever sprained a joint ?

34.   Have you ever had a serious accident ? What happened?

35.   Do you know your blood group ?

36.   Have you ever donated blood ?

37.   Have you ever donated marrow ?

38.   Do you live in a big city or in a village?

39.   (If you live in a big city) Is there high air pollution in your city?

40.   What kind of air pollution is harmful to people’s health?

41.   Do you have a lot of stress in your life?

42.   What do you do to relax after a stressful day?

43.   Are you afraid of getting old?

44.   What do you think about alternative medicine ?

45.   Have you ever tried alternative medicine?

46.   What are the most dangerous diseases of our times?

to care about (level: intermediate)
to pay attention to something
If you don’t care about your health when you are still young, you will cope with more health problems when you are old.

health (level: pre-intermediate)
good general condition, the state of having no illnesses and feeling well
She had to give up smoking not to damage her health any more.

vegetables (level: elementary)
(usually) a plant or a root that you eat, which is good for your health
If you want to lose weight you should eat more vegetables instead of sweets.

fruits (level: elementary)
usually a sweet and tasty part of a tree or a bush which can be eaten directly from that tree/bush
Oranges are my favourite fruits.

junk food (level: intermediate)
food that is quick to prepare and easy to eat, but very unhealthy, because it contains a lot of fat
She doesn’t let her children eat junk food any more, after she realised how much fat it contains.

to smoke (level: intermediate)
to breathe smoke through the mouth, mainly from a cigarette or a pipe
He used to smoke about three packets of cigarettes a day, which made him die of lung cancer at young age.

diet (level: pre-intermediate)
eating less or more healthy food in order to become slim or feel better
“Would you like a piece of cake?” “No thanks, I’m on a diet.”

to exercise (level: intermediate)
a physical activity that you do to be healthy and strong
If you exercise while being on a diet, you are more likely to succeed and lose your weight more quickly.

muscular (level: intermediate)
strong, with well-developed muscles
He wants to be more muscular, so he started to go to the local gym every day.

good physical condition (level: intermediate)
the state, in which you do not get tired easily while doing physical activities
Her physical condition is not good enough to go climbing with us.

catch a cold (level: intermediate)
to become infected, which leads to a cough and a running nose, sometimes with a fever and pain in muscles
He said he wouldn’t come to the party, because he’d caught a cold.

medicine (level: intermediate)
a pill or a liquid that you take as a treatment for illnesses or injuries or as a prevention from them
I prefer natural medicines, especially those based on herbs.

pain-killers (level: upper intermediate)
medicine, pills that make you feel less pain
I always have some pain-killers at home in case I may have this terrible headache again.

medical check-ups (level: upper intermediate)
medical examination
I used to have regular medical check-ups when I was younger, but now I have no time for that.

dentist (level: intermediate)
a person who treats people’s teeth
Children are usually afraid of dentists.

braces (level: advanced)
a device that you wear to move your teeth to the right position in order to have a beautiful smile and healthy teeth
She’s got a perfect smile. She must have worn braces.

backache (level: intermediate)
pain in your back
He had to stop exercising in the gym for a month after he’d got that terrible backache.

headache (level: intermediate)
pain in your head
When I work too much I end up having a terrible headache in the evening.

to suffer from (level: intermediate)
to experience pain (physical or mental)
If you don’t care about your health when you’re young, you’ll suffer from various diseases when you’re old.

allergy (level: intermediate)
becoming ill or having skin problems because of being close to certain substances or eating certain food
I had to sell all my cats after I found out that I have an allergy to their fur.

to lose consciousness (level: upper intermediate)
the state in which you are not awake and you don’t know what is happening around you
She lost consciousness in this accident and never woke up again.

to take a nap (level: upper intermediate)
to go to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day
I am used to taking a 20-minute nap after my dinner.

insomnia (level: advanced)
the state in which you cannot sleep at night
She has a lot of stress in her live, so she lies in her bed for several hours before she can fall asleep.

sleeping pills (level: upper intermediate)
a pill that makes it easier for you to fall asleep
I always have to take a sleeping pill before an important meeting or exam, because I usually can’t fall asleep because of stress.

bone (level: intermediate)
a hard part of people’s and animals’ body
If you are older it is easier to break a bone.

joint (level: upper intermediate)
a place of your body that connects two bones
I sprained my knee joint when I was jogging, so I went to the doctor.

accident (level: pre-intermediate)
something that happens suddenly, when nobody expects, and usually has bad consequences
Two people died in the car accident that happened in front of her house.

blood group (level: intermediate)
blood type
She has a rare blood group B RH negative.

to donate blood (level: advanced)
to give blood so that it is stored for people who may need it after an accident or an operation
He has a rare blood group so I suggested that he starts donating blood, because it may save somebody’s life.

to donate marrow (level: advanced)
to have the tissue that you have in your bones taken by a trained person so that it is used for somebody who may need it as a result of a serious illness
I was registered in the Bone Morrow Bank a month ago, and if they informed me some day that my morrow is needed for somebody else, I wouldn’t hesitate a minute.

air pollution (level: intermediate)
damage caused to air by certain substances
Something needs to be done to prevent further air pollution in big cities.

harmful (level: intermediate)
causing harm, damage
Smoking and drinking alcohol is harmful to your health.

exhaust fumes (level: intermediate)
Cars produce a great amount of exhaust fumes.
afraid of – level: intermediate

alternative medicine (level: upper intermediate)
a range of treatments that people use instead or with traditional medicine
She decided on an alternative medicine that is based on hypnotherapy, because she believes that all those pills prescribed by her doctor irritate her stomach.

dangerous (level: pre-intermediate)
able to harm you
Don’t touch the cages when you are in a zoo. The animals can be very dangerous.

disease (level: intermediate)
illness
The first symptom of this disease is a cough and a fever.

cancer (level: upper intermediate)
a serious disease that is more and more frequent nowadays and often causes death
He had been smoking for almost all his life and he finally died of lung cancer.

to be under the weather (level: advanced)
to feel ill
I didn’t go to work yesterday, because I was under the weather.

to be off colour (level: advanced)
to be unwell, ill
You’d better stay at home today, you seem to be off colour.

to die with one’s boots on (level: advanced)
to die when you are still active in your work
It was a great shock to his colleagues when he died of cancer at the age of 35. He died with his boots on.

to dice with death (level: advanced)
to do something dangerous
He dices with death every time he goes skating on the frozen lake!

a bag of bones (level: upper intermediate)
to be very thin
She’s been on a diet since I remember. It’s no wonder that she looks like a bag of bones.

to get yourself back into shape (level: upper intermediate)
to become fit again after a break in exercising
She quickly managed to get herself back into shape after giving birth.

to be in shape (level: upper intermediate)
to be in a good physical condition
My parents eat healthy and exercise a lot to be in shape all the time.

to keep fit (level: upper intermediate)
to keep a good physical condition
His brother does jogging every evening in order to keep fit.

to be a picture of good health (level: upper intermediate)
to be perfectly healthy
We all wonder how she is doing this: she’s almost 70 and she’s still a picture of good health.

to have a spare tyre (level: advanced)
to have a lot of fat around your stomach
He rarely drinks beer and regularly goes to the gym not to have a spare tyre like most of his friends.