Let’s call the doctor – health vocabulary

Lesson overview

In this lesson, the students:

  • revise vocabulary connected with health, doctor appointments and pharmacy
  • practise dialogues and roleplays
  • discuss their experience

The worksheet is great for exam prep and industry professionals but it is also useful for regular people, tourists and teens. It can be used as a standalone lesson or matched with our other lessons such as: Feeling under the weather, Health myths, Present Perfect vs Past Simple.

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Vocabulary and speaking

A big health vocabulary revision including a list of useful phrases at the doctor’s and health/illnesses/injury words, which your students can practice in engaging tasks. Instead of long lists with translations, the brick presents a clearly divided list of symptoms, illnesses, injuries and treatments. In the first exercise, students work on confusing words like pain, sore and ache. Later, they match words to definitions. Then, students talk about their experiences with health problems and tests, practicing the meaning of the phrases at the same time. But what would be a health lesson without dialogues? Real-life examples of at-the-doctors conversations await, gapped so that your students work on the vocabulary in context. Finally, full speaking experience, with prompted role-plays and questions for discussion. Stay healthy and enjoy the lesson!

 

This lesson contains

  • a lesson plan for students in PDF for download (Student’s Brick)
  • a lesson plan for teachers with key and teaching notes in PDF for download (Teacher’s Brick)
  • an online presentation in Google Slides (Online Brick)

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