Theme: At the doctor’s

Objectives: SWBAT

Practice vocabulary related to illnesses, their symptoms and treatment.

Materials: Sticky labels for each student, patient’s cards, doctor’s treatment cards, doctor’s and patient’s instructions.

Key vocabulary: Symptoms: be itchy, catch a cold, have a cough, have a headache, have  a high temperature, have a rash, have a sore throat, have a backache, have stomach ache, lose weight, put on weight, scratch, sneeze, sprain, suffer from stress.

Treatments: antibiotics, bandage, cough mixture, cream, diet, exercises, ho to the hospital for the tests, have an operation, injection, painkillers, tablets, vitamins, X-ray.

Procedure.

Warm-up: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”

Ask the class to brainstorm reasons Why someone might go to see the doctor.

Make a list on the board of the problems and symptoms.

New vocabulary.

Memory  text “at the doctors”

My brother suddenly_____(fell) ill. He had a ___(headache) and felt very bad.  He had splitting ___(headache),__(coughing). Then he was__(sneezing).  He had___(blowing nose). He went to bed.

What did the doctor do?

Felt

Examined

Listened to

Took

Prescribed some

Told him