Pick the answer that best fills the gap/s in good, clear and accurate English. 'When the boy tried to climb over the barbed wire fence, he lost his balance, fell over, ... ... '

English has lots of ways of saying that someone is not quite in 100% good health. You might hear some of these when one English speaker asks another the routine social question 'How are you / How's life?' (etc.) Only one of the phrases listed here offers a positive reply to such a question: which one is it?

If you have hurt a part of your body fairly seriously by scraping or banging it somewhere, your body may automatically respond in various quite normal ways as it tries to return to normal. Here are three of them, along with one that's rather less serious. Which is ~ probably ~ this least serious condition?

The human body is a wonderful and complex thing: quite often, something relatively minor will go wrong with a part of it, but just for a short while. Your head may hurt, for instance, or your back, or one of your teeth. English often calls this 'an ache' (rhymes with 'cake'), e.g. 'a headache'. Three of these in the list below are 'normal' English forms of ache: one of them isn't. Which is the odd one out?

If you lose your balance and fall over, so that your body-weight turns on your ankle in an unusual way and it hurts badly when you try to stand up, which of these words best describes what you have done to your ankle-joint?

We use a phrase about feeling unwell, if we want to say that something is very boring (so dull, or so repetitive, or so tiresome that we are 'fed up' with it ~ and it's almost a physical sensation, like when you are excited and you have 'a lump in your throat', or your stomach is uncomfortable because you are worried about something that may be happening rather soon ~ so-called 'butterflies' before you perform in some important way in front of other people, e.g. in a sports match or a musical or drama performance). Which of these do we use to say how 'fed-up' we are?

Most of us, from time to time in ordinary life, suffer occasional 'minor injuries' ~ such as a small cut on the hand, where we mis-handle a piece of paper and the edge of it acts briefly like a knife (what we call 'a paper cut'). It's quite likely that English describes these little accidents in a different way from your language. Here are a few such situations: see if you can find the correct English way of explaining what has happened.

You may be at a party with a variety of food, and need to know if there's something that you can't eat for medical reasons ('it doesn't agree with me', as some people used to say). How do you make this clear?

See if you can find the correct English way of explaining what has happened.

One of these in the list below is a 'normal' English form of ache: three of them aren't. Which one is it?