13.1 The doctor - hv12

13.1 The doctor - hv12

The doctor

Introduction

The subject of this double period is the GP.

  • Work together with three or four classmates.

Discuss the following questions in your group in English

  • What do we call a GP in Dutch?
  • Why would a person go to the GP?
  • When should you go to a different doctor?
  • Have you ever been to a GP? Why (if you feel comfortable sharing this)?

Step

 

activity

aim

time

 

introduction

Find out what you already know.

10

Step 1

listening
A day in the life of a GP practice

You can understand a video about a GP practice and answer questions about it.

15

Step 2

reading
General Practitioners

You can understand a text about GPs and answer questions about it.

15

Step 3

vocabulary

You can understand and use the vocabulary about going to the doctor.

15

Step 4

grammar
Future

You can understand and use the will-future.

15

Step 5

speaking
Speech card

You can tell what is wrong with you to the GP.

10

Step 6

writing
An essay about the General Practitioner

You can write an essay about a General Practitioner.

15

Step 7

evaluation

Reflecting on what you have learnt.

05

Step 1 - Listening

A day in the life of a GP practice

You are going to watch a video about a GP practice.

  • Work together with three or four classmates and do exercise 1.
  • Watch the video from 0:16 and do exercise 2.

Exercise 1

Discuss the following questions in your group in English:

  • Is there a GP practice near where you live? Where is it?

Step 2 - Reading

Doctors

You are going to read a text about GP’s.

  • Scan the text and do exercise 1.
  • Read the text and do exercise 2.

Doctors - GP's

When people are ill with a non-life-threatening condition they will most often see a General Practitioner, a GP for short. This type of doctor is often also called a Family Doctor. These doctors generally work in the local community in surgeries rather than in hospitals, so they are convenient for people to see for a consultation. However, some GPs work in other areas, such as in hospitals, in education and for insurance companies.

As the name suggests, GPs are doctors that do not have a specialty, such as a brain surgeon or cancer specialist: they are able to diagnose all the possible diseases and problems that one of their patients might have. They can treat and manage most illnesses and perform some minor surgeries in their practice. So, they are very versatile and need to have a lot of knowledge about all different kinds of ailments. They often also know their patients quite well because they have insight in their patients’ entire medical history. Only if a patient is seriously ill or the GP cannot treat the illness, the doctor will refer the patient to a specialist that works in a hospital.

If you are ill and need to see a GP you normally need to make an appointment. Sometimes you can just walk into the surgery and see a doctor, but that is not very likely. GPs are usually very busy and all their appointment times will be fully booked. Often you have to wait several hours, or even a few days, before you can get an appointment with a GP. Therefore, it is recommended that you call the practice and make an appointment with the GP’s assistant before you go to the surgery. If you are too ill to wait you have to go to a hospital and visit the emergency room.

GPs also make house-calls. A house-call is when a GP comes to your house to treat or see a patient. Most often a GP makes house-calls to see elderly people who cannot get to the surgery easily. In some cases, the doctor visits the patient to give them medicine. In other cases, the GP just wants to check on them and make sure they are ok. House calls can take up a lot of time but they are an essential part of health care for a lot of people.

If you are ill or in pain, the doctor will probably prescribe you some medicine. In a lot of cases the GP will tell you to come back if you have not started to get better in a few days. GPs often also explain how you can have a better lifestyle that could prevent you from becoming ill in the first place. They recommend people to stop smoking, not to drink too much alcohol and to get enough exercise. If the GP has prescribed you medicine, you need to go to a pharmacy with your prescription to get the medicine.

Exercise 1

  • Write down the words from the text that you don’t know yet.
  • Look up the meaning of those words.

Step 3 - Vocabulary

  • Study the vocabulary. (10 minutes)
  • Do the exercise.

Woordenlijst The doctor

Step 4 - Grammar

If you want to talk about the future, you can use the will-future.
Study the explanation of the will-future and think about the following questions.

  • When can you use the will-future?
  • The negative form of the will-future has two short forms. What do these look like?

Step 5 - Speaking

Going to the doctor

You are on holiday in an English-speaking country and have to go to the doctor.

  1. Work together with a classmate.
  2. One of you is the doctor and the other the patient.
  3. Use the speech cards and the table below.
    Speech card patient
    Speech card doctor
  4. Have a conversation with the help of the speech cards. The doctor starts the conversation.
  5. Finished? Switch roles and have the conversation again with another condition.

Condition

Treatment

Flu

Antiviral medication. Take three times daily after meals.

Rash

A cream. Apply four times a day.

Sprained ankle

Some painkillers. Take whenever you have pain. (maximum five times daily)

A bad cut

An antibacterial ointment. Apply three times daily.

 

Speech card patient

You are a patient and have an appointment with the doctor.

  • Greet the doctor
  • Tell the doctor why you came in. (choose a condition from the table)
  • Answer the doctor’s question.
  • Answer the doctor’s question.
  • Thank the doctor.

 

Speech card doctor

You are a doctor and a patient comes into the surgery.

  • Greet the patient.
  • Ask the patient why they came in.
  • Ask how long this has been going on.
  • Tell the patient what the treatment is going to be. (Use the table)
  • Ask if there is anything else.
  • End the conversation.

Step 6 - Writing

An essay about the General Practitioner

You are going to write an essay about GPs.

  • Read the two options.
  • Choose one to write about.
  • Ask your teacher how many words you have to use.

Option 1: My visit to the GP

You are going to write about your visit to the GP. You are allowed to make it all up, you don’t have to write about the truth

  • Why did you visit the GP?
  • When did you visit the GP?
  • Who did you meet in the waiting room?
  • What did the GP give to you?

Option 2: My working day as a GP

You have read a text about GPs and watched a video about their work.
Imagine you are a GP. What happens during the day?

  • How does your day start?
  • Where do you work?
  • What kind of patients do you see?
  • What kind of illnesses do you see?
  • How does the day end?

Step 7 - Evaluation

What have you learnt in this double period?
Answer the following questions:

  • What was the easiest part of this lesson?
  • What did you already know?
  • What was the most difficult part?
  • What was new to you in this lesson?
  • Are there things you don't quite understand yet? How are you going to deal with them?
  • What do you need to ask your teacher?

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    Toelichting
    Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollectie voor Engels voor havo en vwo, leerjaar 1 en 2. Dit is thema 13 'Health and welfare'. Het onderwerp van deze les is: The doctor. In deze les staat de (huis)arts centraal met daarbij de enkele redenen waarvoor je naar de dokter zou moeten (bijv. injury - verwondingen) en wat de dokter kan doen. De grammaticaopdracht behandelt de 'future' aan de hand van het woord 'will'.
    Leerniveau
    VWO 2; HAVO 1; VWO 1; HAVO 2;
    Leerinhoud en doelen
    Engels;
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    gemiddeld
    Studiebelasting
    1 uur en 40 minuten
    Trefwoorden
    (huis)arts, arrangeerbaar, engels, future, hv12, injury - verwonding, stercollectie, the doctor

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