Topic: At hospital

Date: 28.03.2023
Topic: At hospital
Level: A2
Number of students: 16
Time: 40 min
Lesson aim: Students learn and talk about deseases and their treatment.
Lesson objectives: Students will learn new phrases denoting actions that take place at hospital and will be able to express their thoughts with the help of these phrases
New language: doctor, nurse, patient, an operation, an injection, check up, a pill, headache, toothache, pain, hurt, symptoms
Warm Up (4 min)
It’s a bomb! Teacher tells students stand in a circle. T gives one of them a ball, and says “It’s a bomb! The timer is ticking. Then T tells them that they have to say one of the illnesses, that they know, passes the ball to their classmate quickly. The student who has the “bomb” when the timer goes off, leaves the circle. Then T says students re-arrange themselves in the circle so they’re sitting next to different students, and start again.
Pre-activity (6 min)
Activity 1. Students answer the questions with the people in the list below.
a. doctor b. nurse c. out-patient d. sister e. surgeon f. patient
1 Which people work on a ward?
2 Which people work in an operating theatre?
3 Which person is ill and in hospital?
4 Which person is in a waiting room, waiting to see a doctor?
5 Which person is a senior nurse?
Keys:
1. nurse, sister, doctor 2. surgeon, nurse 3. patient 4. out-patient 5. sister
While-activities (20 min)
Activity 2. Matching the verbs
Students match the verbs in A with the words in B. Sometimes there is more than one possible match.
A B
Do an operation
Make an injection
Give some medicine
take a pill
have your temperature
a check-up
Keys:
do – an operation
make
give – an injection, some medicine, an operation
take – some medicine, a pill, your temperature
have – an operation, an injection, a check up
Activity 3. Filling the gaps
Students use the following words in order to fill the gaps. hurt, pain, injured, sick, ache, ill
1.I've eaten too much chocolate. I feel……
2.Ten people were…..in the accident.
3.Sometimes I have a terrible……
in my back. It can really…. I must see a doctor
4. I've got tooth…..and a head…… Do you have an aspirin?
5.My aunt is very……with cancer. We visited her in hospital yesterday.
Keys: 1.I've eaten too much chocolate. I feel sick.
2.Ten people were injured in the accident.
3.Sometimes I have a terrible pain in my back. It can really hurt. I must see a doctor.
4.I've got toothache, and a headache. Do you have an aspirin?
5.My aunt is very ill with cancer. We visited her in hospital yesterday.
Activity 4. Doctor and patient
Students put the dialogue between a doctor and a patient in the right order. Then students should practise the dialogue with their partners.
Just here.
What's the matter?
OK. Breathe in. Breathe out. Good.
I have a terrible pain in my chest.
Take two of these pills twice a day.
Where does it hurt?
What should I do, doctor?
Keys:
What's the matter?
Where does it hurt?
OK. Breathe in. Breathe out. Good.
Take two of these pills twice a day.
I have a terrible pain in my chest.
Just here.
What should I do, doctor?
Post-activity (8 min)
Activity 5. An appointment with the doctor
Read the text. Complete the gaps with the following words: prescription, appointment, temperature, waiting room, symptoms, headache, examined, ill
Last week, I felt 1 _____ So I made an 2 _____ to see Dr Smith. I arrived early, and sat in the 3_____ and read a magazine. I went in to see the doctor, and I told her what my 4 _____ were. I had a bad 5_____ and a high 6_____. She 7_____ me, and gave me a 8 _____ to take to the chemist.
Keys: 1. ill 2. an appointment 3. waiting room 4. symptoms. 5. headache 6. temperature. 7. examined 8. prescription to take to the chemist.
Hometask (2min)
Students should interview their family member asking the following questions:
1.How do you feel today?
2.How often do you see the doctor?
3.Have you ever been to hospital? When? Why?