HEALTH CARE
Topic: Health Care
Level: Pre - Intermedite
Aims:
- to practice useful vocabulary and expressions;
- to develop students’ reading skills;
- to provide opportunities for developing students’ speaking skills (group work).
Activity: listening, reading exercises: true/false exercises, matching activity, interactive activity,speaking – giving own opinion about the subject.
Equipment: the course book “Success” Pre – Intermediate, CD, handouts.
I Warm – up
II Main Part:
III Final Part:
PROCEDURE
Good health is a gift, it is the responsibility of the individual to maintain that
good health. What is necessary to be healthy.
II Main Part:
Students get handouts. They have to set the words in 3 groups: parts of the body, diseases, symptoms. Toe, mumps, stomach – ache, knee, wrist, chest, sore throat, ear, head, tooth –ache, sneezing, headache.
2.Reading Activities
2.1 Pre Reading
Match the phrases and make up the sentences in pairs.
1) Go for a) smoking
2) Look after b) yourself
3) Put on c) your lifestyle
4) Give up d) a check up
5) Keep in e) your teeth
6) Take up f) weight
7) Change g) a sport
8) Brush h) shape
2.2While Reading activities
1) Read the text and try to work out the meaning of the underlined phrases.
Once a year dad goes to the doctor for a check – up. He went last week and got a bit of a shock. The doctor told dad he wasn’t looking after himself properly. Apparently dad has put on weight in the past 12 month and he needed to have a more balanced diet with more fruit vegetables, less meat and bread, and fewer potatoes. He also has to give up smoking completely. The doctor said that he should keep in shape by taking up some kind of sport. So, dad is going to have change his lifestyle completely.
2.2 After Reading
2) Use the underlined phrases from the text to complete these sentences.
a) Just eating hamburgers and chips is no good for you. You need a _______
b) She looks far too thin. She needs to ______
c) My aunt ____ by going swimming three times a week.
d) I haven’t been to the dentist for about 2 years. I think it’s time for me to have a ____
e) My sister’s a vegetarian. She ______ meat three years ago.
f) Bill left home when he was 17. He had to learn to______ himself very quickly.
3. Lictening Activities
While Listening Activity
Listen to the text and try to understand what English proverbs mean?
Tapescript:
Medicine and Health
“Medicines are not meant to live on”, an English proverb says. Yes, that’s true and we may add that good health is better than the best medicine. And if your health is good, you are always in a good mood. You have “a sound mind in a sound body”, as the old Latin saying goes. The English proverb “sickness in the body bring sickness to the mind” expresses a similar idea, but from a different point of view.
Taking medicines is an unpleasant thing, of course, and if you want to avoid it, you should go in for sports and keep yourself fit. Physical exercise is necessary and very important. As doctors say, if a grown – up person doesn’t take exercise, he can easily catch an illness. Physically inactive people get old earlier than those who have plenty of exercise. If you do daily exercises, you feel refreshed, you have a good posture, and that makes you feel good. So pay attention to the way you stand, walk and sit. Here are some of the rules for health.
- Take long walks in the open air as often as you can
- Keep your body clean
- Keep your teeth clean
- Wear clean clothes
- Sleep with your window open
- When you are reading, let the light come from behind your left shoulder.
After Listening Activity
Answer the questions.
1) What English proverbs are mentioned in the text?
2) What are the medicines?
3) What should we do to avoid taking medicines?
4) Are physical exercises very important?
5) What are the rules for health?
4. Speaking Activity
Work in groups:
Students in groups work out their own rules for health and discuss some problems:
* Why must you wash your hands before you take medicine? How can you catch an
Infection?
* Why must we keep medicines in a place where small children can’t get them?
* Is it advisable not to keep medicine in a warm place? Where should they be kept?
III Final Part
Home Task Aid
Prepare a Project a Few Don’ts ( the students write down some Don’ts – what a person shouldn’t do to keep in good health.
Marks Motivation