At the Doctor's ESL Worksheets, Role-Plays, Games and Activities

ESL At the Doctor's Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Role-Play, Asking and Answering Questions, Gap-fill, Discussion, Writing Sentences - Group and Pair Work In this useful medical advice activity, students practice talking about basic medical issues and giving corresponding advice. First, in groups, students take on the identity of a sick person and ask each group member their name and what their medical problem is, noting down each medical issue. Working alone, students then complete medical advice with verbs from a box. Next, in pairs, students discuss each person's medical problem and write advice for them using the language from the worksheet, e.g. 'Lee should stay in bed and get lots of rest.' Finally, review the medical advice the pairs gave each person as a class. show less

ESL At the Doctor's Worksheet - Vocabulary and Reading Exercises: Categorizing, Matching - Speaking Activity: Role-Play, Freer Practice - Pair Work This comprehensive 'At the Doctor's' worksheet helps students practice vocabulary and language for describing symptoms and giving medical advice. First, students complete conversations between doctors and patients with words from a box. Next, students categorise the words in bold from the conversations into body parts and symptoms. Students then match medical advice to the people in the conversations. After that, students unscramble sentences and place them in a doctor-patient conversation. Lastly, students practice their own doctor-patient conversations, choosing different symptoms, and taking turns to be the patient and the doctor each time. show less

ESL At the Doctor's Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Role-Play, Guided Discussion, Controlled and Freer Practice - Pair Work This 'At the Doctor's' worksheet helps students learn and practice medical vocabulary for visiting the doctor. First, students read eight medical problems and match words in bold with their definitions. Next, students complete sentences using the medical vocabulary. Students then complete medical advice using the vocabulary provided. After that, students write the name of the person from Exercise A that each piece of advice is for. Afterwards, students complete a doctor-patient conversation with medical vocabulary from a box and then practice the dialogue with a partner, changing the symptoms and advice. Lastly, students discuss medical conversation questions with their partner. show less

ESL Health Advice Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Speaking Activity: Role-Play, Communicative Practice - Pair Work In this free giving health advice game and role-play, students match pictures to health problems and health problems to treatments, then role-play giving health advice as a doctor. In pairs, students take turns turning over one picture card and one health problem card. If the picture and health problem match, the student keeps the cards and has another turn. The student with the most pairs of cards at the end of the game wins. Next, students repeat the game, but this time they use the health problem cards and treatment cards, matching the health issues with the treatments. Finally, pairs role-play short doctor-patient interactions. Students take turns picking up a picture card and acting as a patient, saying the health problem shown in the picture, e.g. 'I've got a cold.' The other student acts as a doctor and gives health advice to the patient, e.g. 'You should rest and drink lots of fluids.' show less

ESL Medical Vocabulary Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work Here is a productive medical vocabulary worksheet for upper-intermediate students. Students begin by matching medical words to their definitions. Next, students complete sentences with the medical words. Lastly, students complete questions with the medical vocabulary from the worksheet and then discuss the questions with a partner. show less

ESL At the Doctor's Game - Speaking: Matching, Role-Play, Communicative Practice - Group Work In this free doctor and patient role-play game, students race to suggest remedies to health issues. In groups of three, students take turns taking on the role of a patient and picking up a health problem card. The other students take on the role of doctors and ask the patient, 'What seems to be the problem?' The patient then reads out the health problem, and the doctors race to find the correct remedy card and read it to the patient. If the remedy is correct as shown on the patient's card, the patient replies, 'Thank you, doctor.' The winning doctor then keeps the problem and remedy cards. If the remedy is incorrect, the patient replies, 'Can I have a second opinion?' The other doctor then chooses a different remedy card. The student with the most pairs of cards at the end of the game is the winner. show less

ESL Medical Vocabulary Activity - Vocabulary, Reading and Speaking: Gap-fill, Information Gap, Matching, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice In this medical vocabulary activity, students complete sentences about patients' symptoms and exchange information to diagnose each person's condition. First, in two groups, students use the words provided to complete sentences about different people's symptoms. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group and take turns asking their partner about the symptoms experienced by the people whose details are missing from the worksheet, writing their partner's responses in the table in sentence form. Finally, pairs race to complete sentences by writing each person's name next to the correct diagnosis based on their symptoms. The first pair to complete all their sentences correctly wins. show less

ESL Health Vocabulary Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Categorising, Gap-fill In this insightful health vocabulary worksheet, students practice words related to medical conditions and symptoms. To begin, students match symptoms with medical conditions. Next, students put adjectives related to medical issues in the correct categories. Students then write the adjectives next to their definitions. After that, students match the symptoms mentioned in Exercise A with definitions. Students then move on to match the medical conditions with advice. Lastly, students complete a doctor-patient conversation with the words provided. show less

ESL At the Doctor's Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Gap-fill, Reading Comprehension, Categorising, Matching - Speaking Activity: Freer Practice - Pair Work In this engaging 'At the Doctor's' worksheet, students practice vocabulary and language related to health, illness, and medical consultations. First, students read dialogues between a doctor and four patients and complete each conversation with an illness from a box. Next, students complete sentences about the dialogues by writing the correct person's name. Students then put the words in bold from the doctor dialogues into two categories, symptoms or treatments. After that, students match the symptoms and treatments with definitions. Lastly, students work with a partner and ask them questions about the last time they visited the doctor. show less