HEALTH, MEDICAL, SAFETY
GENERAL RESOURCES
Before starting any new unit, I almost always check to see what is available on the topic in the LINC Classroom Activities resource. If there is something at a CLB level that is appropriate for my group, I'll often start with that.
For health / medical, I also really like Best of the Reader: Your Health, especially for high beginners.
But my absolute favourite "go to" resource is Queen's University Library's English for Your Health materials, though you have to keep an eye out for the odd typo or factual error in the teacher's guide. Divided into two levels, beginner and intermediate, there are detailed lesson plans, worksheets for the learners, and well-made audio files with accompanying worksheets for listening activities. They cover everything: making the appointment; filling out a health history form; talking to the doctor about the health history; reading medicine labels; being sent for tests; healthy lifestyle, and so much more.
Another WONDERFUL RESOURCE is the English in Vancouver website - Health section. Check it out today. Seriously.
Before starting any new unit, I almost always check to see what is available on the topic in the LINC Classroom Activities resource. If there is something at a CLB level that is appropriate for my group, I'll often start with that.
For health / medical, I also really like Best of the Reader: Your Health, especially for high beginners.
But my absolute favourite "go to" resource is Queen's University Library's English for Your Health materials, though you have to keep an eye out for the odd typo or factual error in the teacher's guide. Divided into two levels, beginner and intermediate, there are detailed lesson plans, worksheets for the learners, and well-made audio files with accompanying worksheets for listening activities. They cover everything: making the appointment; filling out a health history form; talking to the doctor about the health history; reading medicine labels; being sent for tests; healthy lifestyle, and so much more.
Another WONDERFUL RESOURCE is the English in Vancouver website - Health section. Check it out today. Seriously.
COMMUNITY CARE ACCESS CENTRE (CCAC)
Okay, this workbook to accompany the Erie Saint Clair CCAC's website and patient guide, designed to be used with a multilevel class spanning CLB three to five, is my Sistine Chapel. I worked on this book off and on for MONTHS and will be over the moon if any other teacher ever lets me know that she or he got some use out of it.
CCAC: Terms and Concepts for Newcomers to Canada
The Herman audio recording is HERE.
Keywords: PSW, home healthcare, CLB3, CLB4, multilevel class, EAP, medical English
Okay, this workbook to accompany the Erie Saint Clair CCAC's website and patient guide, designed to be used with a multilevel class spanning CLB three to five, is my Sistine Chapel. I worked on this book off and on for MONTHS and will be over the moon if any other teacher ever lets me know that she or he got some use out of it.
CCAC: Terms and Concepts for Newcomers to Canada
The Herman audio recording is HERE.
Keywords: PSW, home healthcare, CLB3, CLB4, multilevel class, EAP, medical English
EYE EXAM
My morning students, all over the age of 55, had a lot of fun with our week of vocabulary lessons and skill-building as we worked toward role plays set in our virtual eye doctor's office. I gave out popsicle sticks, card stock and tape from which they constructed paddles for covering one eye during the visual acuity test. We pulled up a Snellen chart on the projector board. Below are some free materials for you to use during your lesson on this topic.
We watched this video, Inside an Eye Exam, which comes with a transcript. I reformatted the transcript and enlarged the font. We used these questions and answers to create and practice our own role plays.
Here are two other worksheets for going "back to the well" with the new lexis: Inside an Eye Exam Rational Cloze, and Eye Exam Vocabulary Activity.
On computer lab day, one of the links I offered on the classroom blog was this page from a talking picture dictionary.
My morning students, all over the age of 55, had a lot of fun with our week of vocabulary lessons and skill-building as we worked toward role plays set in our virtual eye doctor's office. I gave out popsicle sticks, card stock and tape from which they constructed paddles for covering one eye during the visual acuity test. We pulled up a Snellen chart on the projector board. Below are some free materials for you to use during your lesson on this topic.
We watched this video, Inside an Eye Exam, which comes with a transcript. I reformatted the transcript and enlarged the font. We used these questions and answers to create and practice our own role plays.
Here are two other worksheets for going "back to the well" with the new lexis: Inside an Eye Exam Rational Cloze, and Eye Exam Vocabulary Activity.
On computer lab day, one of the links I offered on the classroom blog was this page from a talking picture dictionary.
BODY SYSTEMS
Because my morning students want to go through the entire body--system by system, that's what we're doing. In teams of three to four, they've made posters to go around the room.
Here is a doctor-patient dialogue with some vocabulary exercises at the end.
Other resources I'll tap into during this unit include a diagnostic imaging requisition form (I love realia) and some links for them to use on lab day.
Because my morning students want to go through the entire body--system by system, that's what we're doing. In teams of three to four, they've made posters to go around the room.
Here is a doctor-patient dialogue with some vocabulary exercises at the end.
Other resources I'll tap into during this unit include a diagnostic imaging requisition form (I love realia) and some links for them to use on lab day.
LAB REQUISITION - Diabetes / Fasting Glucose Test
My students really enjoyed the activities we did after working with Best of the Reader: Your Health, specifically the story "Hashim Has Diabetes." We worked with an actual Ontario requisition form for blood work, finding and ticking the boxes the doctor would have ticked for our fasting blood glucose test.
We got in lots of speaking practice using these dialogues I wrote.
More speaking practice was afforded on another day by these discussion questions.
To see the students using realia in their lab role plays, read this blog post.
On computer lab day, students were offered these conversations about having blood drawn in the lab.
My students really enjoyed the activities we did after working with Best of the Reader: Your Health, specifically the story "Hashim Has Diabetes." We worked with an actual Ontario requisition form for blood work, finding and ticking the boxes the doctor would have ticked for our fasting blood glucose test.
We got in lots of speaking practice using these dialogues I wrote.
More speaking practice was afforded on another day by these discussion questions.
To see the students using realia in their lab role plays, read this blog post.
On computer lab day, students were offered these conversations about having blood drawn in the lab.
Hilda Visits Dr. Thomas
Below are some worksheets I used before and after a listening lesson based on this CLB 7 audio text on the Settlement At Work Wiki.
Dr Thomas Activity Pack
Matching Exercise
Below are some worksheets I used before and after a listening lesson based on this CLB 7 audio text on the Settlement At Work Wiki.
Dr Thomas Activity Pack
Matching Exercise
PHARMACY / MEDICATION LABELS
Scroll down to number 11 on the Queen's University English for Your Health Beginner page for lots of great materials on this topic.
My class also likes to use Best of the Reader - Your Health - page 18, How to Read a Medication Label.
I hope your school has a collection of realia, both OTC and Px. If not, have students create some.
You can delve even deeper by studying auxiliary labels with this LP by Aldo Gatti of Toronto.
My students love going "back to the well," i.e., slowing down, turning fewer pages, and engaging more deeply with the subject and lexis of the moment before moving on. Here are several activities you can do with the auxiliary labels before moving to the next text or topic.
Scroll down to number 11 on the Queen's University English for Your Health Beginner page for lots of great materials on this topic.
My class also likes to use Best of the Reader - Your Health - page 18, How to Read a Medication Label.
I hope your school has a collection of realia, both OTC and Px. If not, have students create some.
You can delve even deeper by studying auxiliary labels with this LP by Aldo Gatti of Toronto.
My students love going "back to the well," i.e., slowing down, turning fewer pages, and engaging more deeply with the subject and lexis of the moment before moving on. Here are several activities you can do with the auxiliary labels before moving to the next text or topic.
TELEHEALTH ONTARIO
Adverb Clauses worksheet - CLB 4 and up - topic: Telehealth Ontario, Emergency Room
Adverb Clauses worksheet - CLB 4 and up - topic: Telehealth Ontario, Emergency Room
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