Health Problems Abroad

B1 · Intermediate57 minTravelLesson 3 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: get medical help abroad — explain your symptoms, mention allergies, and get the right medicine or appointment.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Feeling ill abroad

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: At the Pharmacy in Barcelona

    Read a 263-word text about At the Pharmacy in Barcelona

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Health and Medical Words

    7 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Health Problem Sentences

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match the Health Problem to the Solution

    Matching exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Visit a Doctor Abroad

    Role-play: You feel very ill at your hotel and visit a local clinic (7 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: at the pharmacy

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

pharmacyprescriptionsymptomallergicfirst aidmedical appointmenttravel insurance

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