6TSO Unit 1 Step 2: What seems to be the problem?

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PART 1 

Conversations at the doctor's surgery

p. 17

Tweepraat

Sit per 2.

Student A starts and answers the questions on the slide (whiteboard).

Talk for the full minute.

After one minute, student B does the same.

Keep talking even if you have answered all questions!

Tweepraat

• Do you think it is important for people to have health checks         from a doctor regularly?

• Would you like to be a doctor? Why (not)?

• What should happen when a doctor makes a mistake?

Ex. p. 17

Listen to the doctor-patient conversation and indicate the correct answers. Sometimes more than one answer is correct.

Take notes in your workbooks.

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1 The patient’s name is:

1. Mr Pierce
2. Mr Hughes
3. Mr Peas

2 The patient has:

1. a fever
2. a cough
3. a runny nose
4. a rash

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Take temperature.

Sit on the examiner’s table. 

Open shirt.

Feel glands.

Cough.

4 What feels sore according to the patient?

1. neck
2. muscles
3. glands
4. arms and legs

5 What does the doctor advise the patient to do?

1. Take something for the fever. Take painkillers. Stay home from work. Sleep a lot.
2. Go work out a lot. Get up early. Drink water and tea. Drink lots of coffee.
3. Get up early. Drink water and tea. Drink lots of coffee. Don’t go to school.
4. Take something for the fever. Stay home from work. Sleep a lot. Drink water and tea.

6 What does the doctor mean by: ‘let the disease run its course’?

1. It has to continue naturally until it has finished.
2. It has to be treated urgently so it passes more quickly.
3. His nose will become very runny.

Ex. 3 

What does the doctor say and what does the patient say? Sort the expressions into the correct column.

(2 minutes)

1 student whiteboard

Green

Red

Ex. 4:  Act out a conversation at the doctor’s.

a) Preparation: choose one of the situations on the next slide. 

Check the strategy on how to have a conversation with your doctor on page 36 and the useful expressions on how to give advice on page 37. 

b) Action: find a partner to act out the conversation. Practise first.

c) Reflection: evaluate yourself using the checklist below.

p. 36

Choose between:

1. You have been having a pain in your back for 2 weeks now.
2. You have been suffering from stomach cramps for a couple of days.
3. Your ankle hurt after you went jogging.
4. You fell on your head and now feel very dizzy.
5. You have a temperature and have a runny nose. You cough and sneeze all the time. 

PART 2 

Conversations at the hospital

Ex. 5 Watch the video in which Dr Mike gives advice to some of his patients.

a) Sort the conditions and the advice accordingly. Choose from the box below.

1 student whiteboard

Ex. 6 When you check into a hospital you have to fill in a patient form. Watch the video and complete Ron’s

hospital form.

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Ex. 8 Filling in a hospital form

You will get a hospital form and a role card / medical ID card. Find a partner. One is triage nurse, the other is patient. 

Triage nurse: ask questions so you can fill in the patient’s form.

Patient: provide details. Make up information if you can’t find it on your medical ID card/role card.

Afterwards, switch roles.