HEALTH CARE
Topic: How do you feel today?
Level: pre-intermediate ( A2)
Aims: to present and practice words and expressions
to describe diseases and their symptoms ;
to practice speaking in the situation when you’re ill.
Activities : listening, reading exercises :true\false exercises,matching activity, speaking, writing and giving own opinion about the subject.
Equipment : the course book “ Success” Pre-Intermediate, CD, handouts
I Warm-up
II Main Part:
1.New Vocabulary
2.Speaking Activity.
3Listening Activities:
3.1Before Listining
3.2While Listening
3.3After Listening
III Final Part:
1.Home Task Aid
2.Marks Motivation
PROCEDURE
I Warm up
The students read the poem and try to predict the topic of the lesson
After the party
Jonathan Blake
Ate too much cake
He isn’t himself today
He’s tucked up in bed
With a feverish head
And doesn’t much care to play
Answer the questions
1 When do we think about our health?
2 When and how often do you call the doctor?
3 When do we begin to take care of our health?
II Main Part :
1 New Vocabulary
Teacher : We should think about out health before we get ill and take care of our health from the early age.
To hurt |
Diseases |
One’s nose is running One’s nose is clogged up To catch a cold To feel sort of feverish |
Pain |
Flu (influenza) |
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Headache/toothache |
quinsy |
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Stomachache |
bronchitis |
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Sore throat |
pneumonia |
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Heart attack |
mumps |
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cough |
measles |
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sneeze |
Scarlet fever |
Translate the sentences
1 The weather’s fan windy and rainy this week and Kate has caught a cold.
2 I have a terrible headache.
3 Anything that hurts or aches causes pain.
4 The pain in the knee was sharp, it ached to move.
5 We often sneeze and cough when we catch a cold.
2 Speaking Activity
Make up dialogues
-- I ‘ve got a cold -- Poor you! --- You should get up
toothache shouldn’t go to bed
cough stay in bed
chicken pox go to the dentist
scratch your sports
take some cough mixture
Students in pairs roleplay the dialogue
“Hello,how are you?
“Bad’’.
“What’s wrong?”
“I feel I have nephritis,nettle-rash,neuralgia,neurasthenia and neurosis”.
“Can a person have so many illnesses at once?”
“I can.”
“Since when did you start feeling the symptoms of all these illnesses?”
“Since mother gave me the Medical Encyclopedia and I started working at letter N”
3 Listening Activities:
3.1Before Listening Activity
Agree or disagree with those statements using the following phrases
You’re quite right. I quite agree here. Certainly(not)! Of course (not)!
I can’t agree. I don’t agree at all. I shouldn’t say so.
1) I think people need the service of a doctor when they are well.
2)You should consult a dentist when you have a toothache.
3)Sick people never stay in bed when they are ill.
4)You should scratch your pots if you’ve got a chicken pox
5)You have a sore throat when we have quinsy.
6)A person doesn’t feel any pain in the heart when he has a heart attack
3.2 While Listening Activity
Listen and complete the dialogue.
Alex.You look awful! What’s the ___(matter)?
Mark.I’ve got a terrible___(pain) in my side.
Alex. Where exactly?
Mark.Just here.
Alex. How long ___(have) you ___(had) it?
Mark. Not long. It___(started) last night.
Alex.I think you____(should) see a doctor.
Mark. Well, maybe I’ll go tomorrow_
Alex. I think you’d ___(better) go now. It___(might) be your appendix
3.3 Afret Listening Activity
Complete the dialogue with a suitable word for each gap.
Doctor. Good morning! What’s the matter?
Patient. Well, I’ve got a ____(sore) throat and my muscles ____(ache).
Doctor. Have you got a ____(temperature)?
Patient. Yes, about 38 ____(degrees).
Doctor. Let me have a look at your throat. Mm I’m sure you’re got ___(flu).
Patient. I thought so. I feel really ___(weak/sick).
Doctor. Yes, you’ll have to stay in____(bed) for a couple of days and drink
a lot of ____(liquids).
Patient. Thank you, doctor.
Work in pairs
Ask your partner:
Why he/she looks seedy today;
What his/her temperature is;
If he/she’got cough;
What his/her complaints are.
III Final Part :
Home Task Aid
You are ill. Write down the symptoms of your illness.
Marks Motivation