Vocabulary
- Diarrhea
- loose stools
- bloating
- cramping
- urgent bowel movement
- rehydrate
- Stomachache
- nausea
- vomiting
- Headache
- aspirin
- cloth soaked in hot water
- Common Cold
- germs
- sneezing
- sore throat
- stuffy noes
- coughing
- Flu
- virus
- body or muscle aches
- chills
- cough
- fever
- headache
- sore throat
- Dengue
- spread by mosquitos
- virus
- fever
- joint and bone pain
- nausea
- vomiting
- headache
- fatigue
- rash
- not treated with medicine
- Malaria
- spread by mosquitos
- chills
- headache
- high fever
- treated with medicine
- Cancer
- HIV/AIDS
- spread through sexual contact or sharing needles with an infected person
- swollen glands
- flu-like symptoms
- blood test is used to tell if someone is infected
- use of condoms can reduce exposure
- Allergies
- allergic
- sneezing
- stuffy or runny nose
- itching eyes, nose, mouth
- Pneumonia
- chills
- high fever
- respiratory illness
- rapid,shallow breathing
- cough
- chest pains
- More illnesses for Costa Rica (click here)
Grammar
- What is the matter?
- How do you feel?
- Have you seen the doctor?
- What are your symptoms?
- You need to _________ (drink more fluids, eat, rest,etc.)
Presentation Ideas
- Flashcards
- Show flashcards with symptoms on them and label them.
- Students can draw the picture representation and the words in their notebook
- Translation
- Teachers can use the native language to define the English version of the illness
- Graphic Organizer
- Students can use a graphic organizer to describe the disease with the causes, symptoms, and treatments
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| The illness in the middle. Causes, symptoms, treatments, 1st language translation, and illustration/use in sentence on the sides. |
Practice Ideas
- What do I have?
- Procedure: Students have a illness taped to their back WITHOUT THEM SEEING WHAT IT IS. Once everyone has an illness they must talk to as many other students as possible to ask YES or NO QUESTIONS to find out the illness on their back.
- Dialogues with the Doctor
- Procedure: Students write a dialogue that they would have at a doctor's office. They must tell their symptoms and get the name of the illness with its treatments.
- Modification:
- Students can read various dialogues that would be discussed between a patient and doctor.
- Students can read their dialogue to the class.
- Students can read their dialogue to the class while they or other classmates act it out.
- Commercials for Treatments
- Procedure: In pairs or small groups, students are given a type of medicine. Students will then write a short (30 seconds to 1 minute) commercial telling the class what this medicine treats or prevents.
- Modifications:
- STudents can make a public service announcement on how to avoid various illness (for example: malaria, dengue, STDS, HIV/AIDS, etc.)
Production Ideas
- Matching illness with symptoms
- Procedure: Students are given a worksheet with the list of illness on one side and the symptoms together. The students write the symptoms that go with each illness under it. {MULTIPLE CHOICE OR MATCHING}
- Listing illness with symptoms/treatments
- Procedure: Students will be given a list of illness and they must write out the symptoms and treatment underneath the illness. {SHORT ANSWER}
- Students are the Doctors
- Procedure: Students are given a scenario of a patient with certain symptoms. The students then write what they think the illness is and how to treat (as if they were the doctor). {SHORT ANSWER}
- Comparing
- Procedure: Using a Venn diagram, students compare two different illness. {LISTING}
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