Medical Procedures: Sample doctor/patient or pharamacist/patient dialogs asociated with different activities and procedures in the hospital. The articles have key vocabulary, warm up questions, sample dialogs, and grammar tips, follow-up speaking tasks, and additional sample sentences or useful language for that situation.

Giving Medicine Lesson Plan:

- Read the dialog aloud to the students or have students in pairs read and practice the dialogue. Answer any vocabulary questions that may come up.

- Go over the different disease states, health problems and medication categores. (They don't match up perfectly. I included what I felt were common and good to know for each section.)

- Have the students change the 2 prescriptions in the example dialog, using the options listed in the bottom half of the worksheet.

** You can stop here and go to the final presentation stage of the lesson.**

Reading a prescription: optional

- The second page has common prescription directions and the shorthand forms used by doctors when writing prescriptions. This is an optional exercise but useful and necessary if you plan to use the final page. Do as is at this point in the lesson.

- On the last page there are 4 additional prescriptions with an exercise for students to write out the three main things they need to tell a patient when giving them these prescriptions: what, why and how. (If you skip the 2nd page, you can just tell them what the directions are for each of the 4 prescriptions.)

what is the medication: This medication is an antibiotic. (or the medication name)

why do they need this medication: This is medication for your infection.

how do they take the medication: Take 1 capsule three times a day for 7 days.

- Have students modify the dialogue using the prescriptions from the last page or create your own prescriptions with different directions.

- When the students feel comfortable ask several groups to perform the procedures in front of the class without the handouts.