Lesson 14

Question 1

Fertilized

Answer 1

Made to start developing into new life

Question 2

Embryo

Answer 2

Developing baby

Question 3

Implants

Answer 3

Fixed itself

Question 4

Womb / uterus

Answer 4

Organ inside the mother where the fertilized egg develops into a baby; uterus is a more medical word than womb

Question 5

Conceive

Answer 5

Become pregnant

Question 6

Fertility drugs

Answer 6

Drugs that help a woman to become pregnant

Question 7

IVF

Answer 7

In Vitro Fertilization: process that fertilizes a woman’s egg in laboratory

Question 8

Foetus

Answer 8

What the embryo developing in the uterus is known as from eight weeks onward

Question 9

Placenta

Answer 9

Organ connecting the developing baby to the mother and giving it food

Question 10

Go into labour

Answer 10

Go into the last stage of pregnancy where the womb starts the process of pushing the baby out of the body

Question 11

Be induced

Answer 11

Be helped medically to start the process of labour

Question 12

Give birth

Answer 12

Have her baby

Question 13

Midwife

Answer 13

Nurse who specialized in helping women when they are giving birth

Question 14

Deliver

Answer 14

Help the mother to give birth

Question 15

Caesarean section

Answer 15

Operation in which the mother’s abdomen and womb are cut open to allow the baby to be removed

Question 16

Ripe old age

Answer 16

Living well into old age;

Question 17

Late

Answer 17

Now dead

Question 18

Pensioner

Answer 18

Elderly person, receiving an old pension from the state

Question 19

Sheltered accommodation

Answer 19

Special housing, usually for old people, where care staff also live

Question 20

Doddery

Answer 20

Weak and unable to walk well, usually because of old age

Question 21

Gaga

Answer 21

Unable to think clearly because of old age

Question 22

Have all her wits about her

Answer 22

Is still able to think and react quickly

Question 23

Coffin

Answer 23

Box where the dead person is put

Question 24

Wake

Answer 24

Gathering of family and friends after a funeral

Question 25

Will

Answer 25

Legal document saying what is to happen to your possessions after your death

Question 26

Ashes

Answer 26

Remains of a body after cremation

Question 27

Mourning

Answer 27

Expressing sadness after someone’s death

Question 28

Cremation

Answer 28

Service at a place called a crematorium where a dead body is burnt

Question 29

Scattered

Answer 29

Spread around

Question 30

Condolence

Answer 30

Sympathy and sadness for the family or close friends of a person who has recently died, or an expression of this, especially in written form

Question 31

Pass away / pass on / pass over

Answer 31

Euphemism for “to die”

Question 32

Be at death’s door / be on your last legs

Answer 32

Colloquial expressions for being close to death

Question 33

Fatalities

Answer 33

Dead people

Question 34

Perished

Answer 34

Died

Question 35

Slaughtered

Answer 35

Violently killed

Question 36

The deceased

Answer 36

The dead person

Question 37

To bequeath

Answer 37

To leave something in a will

Question 38

To inherit

Answer 38

To receive something from someone who has died

Question 39

To die intestate

Answer 39

To die without having made a will

Question 40

Conception

Answer 40

Time when sperm and egg meet and a baby starts to form