English Vocabulary in Use Elementary » Unit 3: Parts of the body

Word List
  • arm
  • blood
  • body
  • brain
  • chest
  • ear
  • eye
  • feet
  • finger
  • foot
  • hand
  • heart
  • hip
  • knee
  • leg
  • lip
  • lipstick
  • mouth
  • nail
  • neck
  • nose
  • pain
  • shoulder
  • stomach
  • teeth
  • thumb
  • toe
  • tooth
  • waist
  • wash
  • face
  • hair
  • head
  • side
  • skin
Exercises

3.1 ‣ Here are the names of some parts of the body with the letters mixed up. What are they?

  1. eken
  2. osen _____
  3. rathe _____
  4. hamcost _____
  5. olderush _____
  6. are _____
  7. hotot _____
  8. buhtm _____
  9. akbc _____
  10. tiwas _____

3.2 ‣ Complete these sentences with words from the opposite page.

  1. A hand has five .
  2. A foot has five _____.
  3. An adult has 32 _____
  4. You smell with your _____.
  5. The _____ is a symbol of love.
  6. You hear with your _____.
  7. The child sat on her father’s _____.
  8. Your _____ type can be A, B, AB or O.
  9. You think with your _____.

3.3 ‣ Correct the mistakes in the sentences.

  1. I have a pain in the side.
  2. That woman has got very big foots.
    _____
  3. My grandfather has a pain in the shoulder.
    _____
  4. The baby has already got two tooths.
    _____
  5. The little girl needs to wash the face and the hands before dinner.
    _____
  6. My hairs are dirty. I need to wash them.
    _____

3.4 ‣ Parts of the body are often used in compound nouns too. Complete these nouns with a word from the opposite page.


  1. chair

  2. _____ball

  3. _____stick

  4. _____brush

  5. _____scarf

  6. _____bag

3.5 ‣ Complete the crossword. Look at the pictures.

_____(1)
_____(2→)
_____(2↓)
_____(3)
_____(4)
_____(5)
Answer Key
A ‣ Head and face

B ‣ Arm and leg

C ‣ Rest of body

We have skin covering our bodies.

D ‣ Inside the body

E ‣ Pronunciation problems
  1. eye /aɪ/
  2. knee /niː/
  3. stomach /ˈstʌmək/
  4. heart /hɑːt/
  5. blood /blʌd/
  6. foot /fυt/
  7. tooth /tuːθ/
F ‣ Singular and plurals

one foot – two feet
one tooth – two teeth

Hair is a singular word.
My hair is very long – I must cut it soon.

Common mistakes

Usually we use my, your, his, her, etc. with parts of the body.

Katie is washing her hair [NOT Jane is washing the hair]. I have a pain in my leg [NOT I have a pain in the leg].

(See Unit 6: Health and illness.)

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