Teacher Notes
Topic: occupational health
Timing: 30–40 mins
Lesson type/focus: reading and vocabulary
Level: B2 C1
Sector: medicine, nursing, care, other
Medical Area: history and assessment, symptoms, diseases and conditions, treatment and medication, other
Skill focus: reading, vocabulary, pronunciation
Aims
Teaching notes and answer key
Part 1: speaking
Put students into pairs or small groups and ask them to discuss questions 1–3 on the student worksheet. Encourage them to share examples from their own experience.
Do whole class feedback to discuss and share answers.
Part 2: vocabulary
A. Ask students to look at the list of words. Model the pronunciation and have students say each one aloud.
Don’t go through the meanings of the words as students are going to look at this in activity B.
B. Have students work in pairs to complete the definitions with words from A.
Go through the answers as a class.
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