Doctor’s Visit: Tests and Treatments

In this lesson, your students will:

• Reflect on doctor–patient communication styles
• Generate and listen to typical GP questions and practice writing and responding to them
• Explore key collocations with medical vocabulary and their meanings and real-life use
• Study the ways to talk about allergies
• Role-play a simple doctor visit using a model dialogue
• Practice phrases used at the pharmacy
• Compare healthcare systems and reflect on cultural differences
• Expand vocabulary on tests, medications, and health issues

This lesson includes 13 exercises that work together to expand students’ vocabulary related to symptoms, medical tests, and treatment, and build students’ confidence in using collocations and set phrases when discussing health issues.

Functional language: ”Are you in any pain?”, “Any history of illness in your family?”, etc.
Vocabulary: be allergic to, get an X-ray, etc.
Additional resources: WordWall, LearningApps, Quizlet