Health and Healthcare

The following curriculum framework and pacing guide outlines Health and Healthcare, Literacy Volunteers’ third six-week EL/Civics session, which began in mid-September, 2002. Unlike sessions 1 and 2, this session is a single session devoted exclusively to healthcare and related grammar skills. Users will find below a short description of each lesson and an accompanying timeline for this class of intermediate level English learners. Virtually all of the materials and activities described here are easily adapted to meet the needs of learners at other levels of competency.  

Health and Healthcare borrows from portions of the two previous sessions while adding a number of new lessons. Like its predecessors, this session will build basic health and healthcare vocabulary and questioning skills within the context of authentic situations. However, special emphasis has been placed upon extending previous skills acquisitions into the area of verbal communication. As a result, the lessons in this session are weighed heavily in favor of speaking and listening activities featuring learner dialogues.

Detailed descriptions of the lessons used throughout this session may be found by going to the E/L Civics Complete Lesson Plan Index and clicking on the appropriate subject. Tutors with questions about this session's activities, their sequence or how to apply them to single- and paired–learner environments may call the Literacy Volunteers ESOL coordinator at 265-9339, Mondays through Fridays, or use e-mail anytime.

Timeline

September 11: Practical Healthcare: Vocabulary, Verbs and Frequency Adverbs
September 16: Practical Healthcare: Vocabulary, Verbs and Frequency Adverbs
September 18: Asking and Answering Questions Using Basing Vocabulary

September 23: Speaking with Healthcare Professionals #1

September 25: How Healthy are You?

September 30: Speaking with Healthcare Professionals #2

October 02: Speaking with Healthcare Professionals #3

October 07: Speaking with Healthcare Professionals #3

October 09: Speaking with Healthcare Professionals #4

October 14: Making a Doctor's Appointment over the Phone

October 16: Completing a Confidential Health Intake Form

October 21: Healthcare Writing Practice

Session Objectives

The learner will correctly identify, spell and pronounce unit vocabulary and conjugate unit verbs.

The learner will correctly identify nouns, articles, verbs and adjectives in written and oral work.

The learner will correctly use the frequency adverbs "never," "seldom," "often," "usually," "always," "rarely" and "sometimes" in healthcare related sentences.

The learner will use "Who?", "Where?", "What?" and "Is there?/Are there?" questioning formats to ask and answer questions related to health care.

The learner will write dialogues and perform role plays using health vocabulary and appropriate questioning formats.

The learner will match body parts with the verb(s) that correctly describe their function.

The learner will complete a sample Confidential Health Intake Form with fewer than three errors.