General Listening Quiz

Have you ever been injured in an accident or during physical exercise? What did you do to recover and get better (for example, rest, physical therapy, medication, or a combination of any of these)?

1. 1. Physical therapy helps people recover from injuries.
   2. Everyone should try physical therapy if they hurt themselves.
   3. It’s important to do the exercises your physical therapist gives you.
   4. Physical therapy is only for older people.
   5. You can get better faster by doing physical therapy at home.
   6. Physical therapy can help with long-term pain.
   7. It’s okay to stop physical therapy if you start feeling better.
   8. Physical therapy is a good way to avoid surgery.
   9. Going to physical therapy can be fun because you learn new ways to move.
   10. Physical therapy can help athletes get back to their sport faster.

“no pain, no gain” = you have to work hard or suffer a little to improve or succeed
“I know these stretches hurt now, but remember—no pain, no gain!”

“get back into shape” = become fit and healthy again through exercise
“After his surgery, it took months of physical therapy to get back into shape.”

Listen to the recording and answer the questions. (See transcript)

Here are some words and expressions that appear in the recording:

• trip (over) (verb): hit your foot on something that causes you to fall
  – I tripped over a box in the dark after the lights went out.
• injure (verb): hurt or damage a person or animal
  – Steve injured his leg in the football game.
• can’t beat something (idiom): be better than something else
  – You can’t beat the flavor of this ice cream. It’s the best.
• in your dreams (idiom): something that is not likely to happen
  – A: I think Maria really likes me.
  – B: In your dreams. She’ll never go out with you.

Retell what happened to the man and what he is doing to recover from his injury. 

1. Where did this accident happen?
2. How did it happen?
3. When did it happen?
4. Who was involved in the accident?
5. How often is he getting physical therapy?

Use the internet find common treatments for these injuries:

• a sprained ankle
• lower back pain