1. Replace the underlined words with a synonym.
alleviate, subside, washed out, stiffness, squeeze, impairment, determine, bring on, cause
1. Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are tremors, slow movement and muscle rigidity.
2. Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease include difficulty in learning and worsening of judgment.
3. Treatments are available to lessen some of the symptoms.
4. What triggers this disease is unknown.
5. We don’t know what causes the symptoms to arise.
6. Scientists have not yet been able to identify the cause.
7. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition in which the median nerve is compressed.
8. During the last phase of migraine the person often feels drained.
9. The bad feeling disappears within 24 hours.
2. Match the words so that they form phrases.
experience
lapse into
lose
myelin
pass on
progressive
recurrent
throbbing
sheath
disease
unconsciousness
consciousness
pain
to a person
convulsion
seizures
Conditionals
0 conditional
If you heat water to 100°C, it boils.
Form
If + ___________, ______________
1st conditional
If I fail the exam, I will be sad.
Form
If + ___________, ________ + __________
Meaning
It describes something which is _____________ , it is
often e.g. a scientific ________________.
Meaning
It refers to the __________
It is __________and also __________that the
condition will be fulfilled.
2nd conditional
If I won a million crowns, I would travel around the world.
Form
If + ___________, ________ + __________
Meaning
It refers to the __________
It is __________but __________, that the condition
will be fulfilled.
3rd conditional
If I had been in the accident, I would have died there.
Form
If + ___________, ________ + __________
Meaning
It refers to the __________
It is __________that the condition will be fulfilled
Complete the following words into the tables above:
fact, possible, past tense, past, always true, would have, present simple, will, past participle (e.g. gone), bare
infinitive, very likely, future, impossible, very unlikely, past perfect (e.g. had found)