13.1 The doctor - tto123

13.1 The doctor - tto123

The doctor

Introduction

The subject of this period is the GP.

A GP is a medical doctor who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients.

Discuss the following questions with a classmate:

  • Have you ever had an injury?
  • How did it happen?
  • How long were you injured for?
  • What did you do about it?

Step

Activity

Aim

Time

 

Introduction

Find out what you already know.

10

Step 1

Listening
Injury

You can understand a podcast about an injury and answer questions about it.

15

Step 2

Reading
Xtra doctors

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

15

Step 3

Vocabulary

You can understand and use the vocabulary about injuries.

15

Step 4

Grammar
Future

You can understand and use the 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

Reflect on what you have learnt.

05

Step 8

Extra
The Doctor said

Listen to the song.

 

Step 1 - Listening

Injury

You are going to listen to a podcast by Tess and Ravi.

  • Listen to the podcast and do assigment 1.
  • Read the questions.
  • Listen again and do assignment 2.

Assignment 1

Answer the questions (on your own) and discuss the answers in your group. 

a. What are Tess and Ravi doing? (use key words)

b. What is Ravi's problem? (use key words)

c. Where are they going in the end? (use key words)

Questions

  1. What is the first question Tess asks Ravi?
  2. Why does she ask this question?
  3. What is Ravi’s problem?
  4. What did Ravi do on Saturday?
  5. Is Ravi planning to go to the doctor?
  6. What does Ravi think about his injury?
  7. What does Tess want to know?
  8. What does Tess suggest to do after finishing the podcast?
  9. How does Ravi react to this suggestion?
  10. Why does Tess give Ravi a lift?

Step 2 - Reading

Doctors

You are going to read a text about doctors.

  • Do assignment 1.
  • Read the questions, read the text and do assignment 2.

Assignment 1

Try to write down as many words you know about doctors and illnesses.
Compare you list with a classmate.

Questions

  1. What is the difference between a specialist and a GP?
  2. Where do GP's normally work?
  3. Why will you often have to wait to see a GP?
  4. What sort of person will most likely be visited by a GP in their own home?
  5. What do GP's do as well as making ill people better?

Read the text and do the exercise.

Doctors - GP's
When people are ill with a non-life threatening condition they will often see a General Practitioner (GP), 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, other GPs can work in a very wide range of 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 and treat 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. Then for more serious cases they will refer the patient to a specialist who works in a hospital.

If you are ill and need to see a GP you will normally need to make an appointment. Sometimes you can just walk into the surgery and see a doctor, but that is not very likely as GPs are normally very busy and all their appointment times will be fully booked. Often you have to wait several hours if not at least one or two days before you can get an appointment with a GP. If you are too ill to wait you have to go to a hospital and visit the accident and emergency department.

GPs also make house-calls. These are when the GP comes to your house to treat you or see a patient. Most often a GP has to make house-calls to see elderly people who cannot get to the surgery easily. They might be ill and need the doctor to give them medicine or it could be that the GP just wants to check on them and make sure that they are ok.

If you are ill, the doctor will normally prescribe you some medicine and tell you to go away for a few days before you go back and visit them again if you have not started to get better. The GP will also explain how you can have a better lifestyle that could prevent you from becoming ill in the first place. They will normally recommend that you stop smoking cigarettes (if you do), not to drink too much alcohol and to exercise. Once you have your prescription you will need to visit a pharmacy to get the medicine the doctor prescribed you.

Step 3 - Vocabulary

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

Vocabularylist The doctor

Step 4 - Grammar

Will-future

Have a look at knowledgebase 'future: will'

Future: will

Now you are ready to do the following exercises.

Step 5 - Speaking

Speech card

Now you are going to have a conversation about health with someone else.
You and your partner are going to act out a conversation at the doctor.
One of you is the doctor (person A), and the other the patient (person B).

Expressions: If you need some extra help, go to your StudioWozzol account and take another look at the chunks.
Now you are going to have a conversation.

  1. Find someone to work with and use the schedule at the end of the page.
  2. Write down a couple of words to help you during the conversation.
  3. Practise your conversation at least twice.

After practising twice, do the following things:

  1. Find another pair to work with.
  2. Act out your conversation.
  3. Let them write down feedback for you.
  4. Let them do the conversation and write down feedback for them.
  5. Discuss what things were good and what you can do better next time.

Person A: The doctor

Person B: The patient

1

Greet the patient and ask the patient to take a seat.

1

Greet the doctor.

2

Ask what is wrong.

2

Make up something that is bothering you (headache, nausea, dizziness).

3

Ask how long the patient has had these symptoms and whether the patient knows where it comes from.

3

Answer the question.

4

Say you think it is (make up a disease). Tell him/her that you are prescribing medication that should quickly resolve the symptoms.

4

Ask what kind of medicine it is and how often and at what times of the day you should take it.

5

Answer the question. Also state that if he/she is not better in 48 hours, he/she should come and see you again.

5

Say you understand, thank the doctor and end the conversation.

6

Say 'you're welcome' and end the conversation.

 

 

Evaluation

Discuss what went well and what you can do better next time.

Step 6 - Writing

An essay about the General Practitioner

You are going to write an essay about GPs.

  • Read the three 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 are you visiting the GP?
  • When?
  • Who did you meet in the waiting room?
  • What did the GP give to you?

Option 2: My working day as a GP

Imagine you are a GP. What happens during the day?

  • How does your workday start?
  • Where do you work?
  • What kind of patients do you see?
  • What kind of illnessess do you see?

Option 3 Why I want to become a GP

You are going to write an essay about what motivates you to become a GP.

  • What are the advantages of the job?
  • What are the disadvantages?
  • What motivates you?

Step 7 - Evaluation

What have you learnt in this 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?
  • What do you have to ask your teacher?

Step 8 - Extra

The Doctor Said

You are going to listen to the song The Doctor Said by Chloe Adams.

  • Watch the video.
  • Explain in your own words what the song is about.

 

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    Toelichting
    Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollectie voor Engels voor tweetalig onderwijs, leerjaar 1, 2 en 3. Dit is thema 13 'Health and welfare'. Het onderwerp van deze les is: The doctor. In deze les staat de General Practitioner (huisarts) 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'.
    Leerniveau
    VWO 2; HAVO 1; VWO 1; HAVO 3; VWO 3; HAVO 2;
    Leerinhoud en doelen
    Engels;
    Eindgebruiker
    leerling/student
    Moeilijkheidsgraad
    gemiddeld
    Studiebelasting
    1 uur en 40 minuten
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    (huis)arts, arrangeerbaar, engels, future, general practitioner, injury - verwondingen, stercollectie, the doctor, tto123

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