The Healthy Talk
ESL Lesson PlansThe Healthy Talk

The Healthy Talk

This lesson plan helps B1 ESL students practice communication in medical settings. Students will watch a video, match useful hospital phrases, and role-play situations like making appointments, describing symptoms, and asking for a sick note. The lesson plan builds skills in giving and receiving information, essential for dealing with real-life health scenarios.

Skills

  • The student can exchange, check and confirm information, deal with less routine situations and explain why something is a problem.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Watch the video. Describe the situation in a couple of sentences.

1
What is happening in the video?
2

Find the matching halves of phrases people usually use in the hospital.

3

Sort the following conversations into the categories given below.

4

Fill in the gaps. Then role-play these situations with your teacher/partner, using your details. You can use the questions and expressions from the dialogues as a basis for your conversation.

5

What would you say in the following situations?

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