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 reading activity listening activity Taking Care of Yourself

Students listen to and identify health-related activities. They also practice present and present progressive verbs.

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 reading activity Medical Appointments

Students learn and practice words related to medical appointments. Then they answer multiple-choice questions about medical appointments.

# Appointments

Students look at 4 appointment reminders and answer 8 multiple-choice questions about them.

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 reading activity listening activity Spelling Health Words

Students listen to and unscramble health-related words.

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 reading activity Understanding Appointment Reminders

Students read three appointment notices and type answers to questions about each notice.

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 reading activity Learning Words That Describe Feelings

Students hear words that describe feelings, match them with pictures, and spell them. Then they unscramble sentences describing feelings.

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 reading activity Reading a Medical History Form

Students read a person's medical history form and answer seven multiple-choice questions.

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 reading activity listening activity Reading Over the Counter Medicine Labels

Students first listen to an explanation of OTC labels and then answer eight questions about a generic label. They then answer eight multiple-choice questions based on a Sudafed label.

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 reading activity Filling Out a Medical Information Sheet

Students fill in a medical form. NO DATA IS COLLECTED.

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 reading activity listening activity Learning Body Parts - Part 1

Students look at pictures of body parts. They see the words and hear how to pronounce and spell them. Then they practice how to spell the words.

Learning Body Parts - Part 2

Learning Body Parts - Part 3

Learning Body Parts - Part 4

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 reading activity Identifying Body Parts

Students look at pictures of body parts and spell them.

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 reading activity listening activity Injuries and Illnesses 1

Students listen to a sentence and then find the body part mentioned in it. They then listen to scrambled sentences and put them into correct order. Grammar focus: questions.

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 reading activity listening activity Injuries and Illnesses 2

Students listen to and unscramble sentences. Then they listen to sentences and type in the missing word. Grammar focus: present and past tenses and possessive pronouns.

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 reading activity listening activity recording activity Making a Doctor's Appointment

Students read parts of a conversation between a receptionist and a patient and then sequence the conversation. Then they read and or listen to parts of the same conversation and reconstruct it.

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 reading activity listening activity recording activity Talking to Doctors and Nurses

Students listen to a recorded conversation of a patient and his/her nurse or doctor. Together with a partner, they record the conversation.

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 reading activity # Identifying Health Problems

Students look at pictures and explanations of simple illnesses. Then they check their understanding by answering ten multiple-choice questions.

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Medicine label words

Students practice or learn the words used on medicine labels.

# Reading Medicine Labels

These activities include the following topics: Prescription Labels, Over-the-counter labels, Special Warning Labels, and Side Effects. Students watch and listen to an explanation of a topic and then check their understanding by taking a quiz on the topic.