HEALTH SERVICE

LISTENING

The 7^th Course

OBJECTIVES:

To revise and enrich student’s vocabulary on the topic

To present and practice words and expressions to describe diseases and their symptoms

To develop listening for gist, details and specific information

1.                INTRODUCING THE TOPIC.

WARMING UP.

TONGUE TWISTER. The students read the tongue twister with various intonation, voice or speed. Then they try to predict the topic of the lesson.

Does a doctor doctor a doctor according to the doctored doctor’s doctrine or doctoring, or does the doctor doing the doctrine doctor the other doctor according to his own doctoring doctrine?

2.                PRE-LISTENING TASKS.

a)                Students in groups complete some proverbs and discuss them.

An apple a day keeps (doctor) away.

A sound mind in a sound (body).

Prevention is better than (cure). Health is better than (wealth).

b)               Students get the list of words (the names of diseases and jobs concerning the topic health) and divide them into the correct column (jobs, diseases).

Surgeon, nurse, dentist, oculist, pediatrician, oncologist, specialist, therapist, chemist, local doctor, private doctor, cardiologist.

Cancer, quinsy, bronchitis, pneumonia, mumps, measles, scarlet fever, chicken pox, gastritis, flu, tuberculosis, gastritis.

Then the teacher takes away the list and offers the students to divide in two groups and during 1 minute write as many words as possible from the columns, then in turns name and cross out the words which the other group has already named.

                3.      WHILE-LISTENING TASK.

The pupils listen to the text and fill with the letters according to the names of the specialists to the duties they fulfill (patient, doctor, specialist, surgeon, nurse)

P - Describes the symptoms of the illness.

P - Makes an appointment.

D - Takes the pulse.

D - Looks at the tongue.

D - Listens to the heart and lungs.

Sp - Prescribes some treatment and pills.

Su - Makes operations.

N - Takes care of patients.

D - Visits the patients at hospitals regularly.

HEALTH SERVICE

 People need to see doctors if they have a cough, a high temperature or some other symptoms of some diseases. If you are ill you should see your local doctor first. So you have to make an appointment. As disease is usually characterized by a set of specific symptoms and sings, the doctor will ask you to describe the symptoms of your illness. Then he’ll take your pulse, look at your tongue, listen to your heart and lungs and check your temperature. He or she will give you some treatment or send you see a specialist.

 Specialists usually work in medical centres or in hospitals. A specialist will examine you and prescribe some treatment, pills, tablets or some other medicine, which you can buy at the chemist’s.

 If you fill too ill to go to the doctor’s, you’ll stay in bed and send for a

doctor. If you have an accident, you go to the Accident and Emergency department of the nearest hospital. Sometimes people need to stay at the hospital for several days or weeks. Surgeons make operations, nurses take care of patients. Doctors visit their patients at hospitals regularly.

 There are many private hospitals today. So you can go to a private doctor or a dentist. You have to pay there, but it’s usually quicker. Today many people can get private treatment.

 To be healthy a person needs living a healthy lifestyle: do regular physical exercises, be outdoors every day, eat only healthy food and get enough sleep. There are two more useful things for your health: to take vitamins regularly and have a complete physical once a year.

                4.      POST-LISTENING TASKS.

a)       The students find an adjective in list (a) to match a noun in list (b). Then the students make their own sentences using set expressions.

(a)     Healthy, high, local, specific, medical, private, regular, unhealthy (b) Lifestyle, temperature, doctor, symptoms, centres, treatment, exercises, food

b)      The students identify the words with the help of the definitions given and find the words in the wordsearch.

A doctor who performs operations on people (surgeon).

An abnormal condition of the body causing discomfort (disease).

A medical doctor who specializes in dentistry (dentist).

A common disease that is caused by a virus and that causes fever, weakness, body aches and breathing problems (flu).

Anything that indicates or is a characteristic of a disease (symptom).

A measure of cold or heat (temperature).

A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary (cough).

A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick and injured (hospital). A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication (pill).

A state of being free from physical or phychological disease (health). A person who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person (patient).

c) The teacher offers a cinquain on the topic and the students makes a conclusion using it. Then the teacher suggests the pupils to change the cinquain or to create their own ones.

HEALTH

IMPORTANT, VALUABLE

PRACTISE, EXERCISE, EXAMINE

FIT AS A FIDDLE

WEALTH LITERATURE: 1.   Дроздова Т., Берестова А.И., Дунаевская М.А. «Everyday English.

Учебное пособие». - Издательство: Антология, 2013 г. – 592 С.

2.            Лисовець І.П. Усі уроки англійської мови. 7 клас. – Х.: ТОВ «Видавнича група «Основа»», 2007. – 288 С.

3.            Методика навчання іноземних мов у середніх навчальних закладах: Підручник/ Кол. Авторів під керів. С.Ю. Ніколаєвої. – К.: Ленвіт, 1999. – С.72.