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Passport to English: Health Listening Activity

Details

Tech Product/Equipment:
Computer and projector, Computer only, Mobile devices for students

Activity Description

 

Symptoms: A CHAT GPT Image
 

In this activity, students listen to a conversation between a doctor and a patient, and answer questions about the dialog.

Preparation

  1. Review the activity and how the site works so you are comfortable with it in class.
  2. Pre-teach any basic Internet navigation and keyboarding skills your students are not familiar with to be able to complete the activity.
  3. Check to make sure the audio file plays on the student computers.
  4. Put the link to this activity on the desktop of each student computer or on your class Web page.

How-To

  1. Review the vocabulary and grammar used in the dialog (see the Lesson 12 Vocabulary and Grammar links)
  2. Have students go to the Web site, listen to the dialogue, and answer the comprehension questions.

More Ways

See the links to other activities for this Lesson 12 - Health lesson including Vocabulary, Grammar, Listening, Dialog, Pronunciation, Dictation, and Game.

Use this site for lessons and exercises for Literacy, Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced level students on 15 other topics including:

  • Greetings
  • School
  • People
  • Work
  • Family
  • House
  • Food
  • Clothes
  • Sports/Hobbies
  • Shopping
  • Transportation
  • The City
  • Animals
  • Weather
  • The Future

Program Areas

  • ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

  • Beginning Low
  • Beginning High

Lesson Plan

Warm-up
Engagement

Use the picture handout.
Ask: “What do you do when you are sick?” Elicit phrases like drink tea, take medicine, rest.

Introduction
Engagement

Write on board: should, shouldn’t, have to.
Briefly explain with examples:

You should drink tea.
You shouldn’t go to work.
I have to go to work tomorrow.
Students repeat chorally.

Presentation
Engagement Enhancement

Use the full dialogue as input and practice:

A – Hi doctor.
B – Hi Nancy. What's the matter?
A – I have a sore throat and a bad cough.
B – Hmmm. You should drink lots of tea and take cough medicine.
A – I have to go to work tomorrow.
B – You shouldn't go to work. You should rest.
A – I have a big project to finish at work.
B – You should rest and you shouldn't talk too much.
A – Ok.
Read aloud line by line; students repeat.
Highlight uses: have to = obligation, should/shouldn't = advice.

Practice
Engagement Enhancement

Have students listen (via link or read aloud) then answer True/False questions (from site) such as:

Nancy has a stomachache. False
She should drink tea and take cough medicine. True
She has to go to work tomorrow. True
She shouldn’t go to work tomorrow. True
She should rest. True

 

Practice
Engagement Enhancement

Use scrambled sentences from site: e.g., You / drink / tea / lots / should.

Divide students into pairs or small groups

Students reorder and write correctly: You should drink lots of tea.
Check answers as a class.

Evaluation

Divide students into pairs. Have students decide who is A and who is B. Give student A the handout for Student A and Student B the handout for Student B. Student A starts as the patient. Student B is the doctor. The student describes the health problem and the doctor can give advice. Use this handout.

Application
Engagement Enhancement Extension

Have students write a dialogue for homework about a health problem they or one of their children had.

Documents

Standards

  • Speaking and Listening
    • CCR Anchor 1 - Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
  • Language
    • CCR Anchor 1 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
    • CCR Anchor 6 - Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

Tags

Listening, Speaking, Writing, doctor's office, giving advice, health, Passport to English, should, shouldn't, What's the matter, What's the matter?, advice

Creative Commons License

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AI Reference

Used Chat GPT to create this lesson
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