Medical Procedures: Taking a Patient's Blood Pressure

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Medical Procedures: Sample nurse/patient or doctor/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.

Taking a Patient's Blood Pressure:

Vocabulary: blood pressure, diastolic, pulse, breath, systolic, temperature, Fahrenheit, stethoscope, Celsius, thermometer, blood pressure monitor, sphygmomanometer

The taking a patient's blood pressure worksheet to print.

There are 2 parts to the worksheets. The first page has a warm-up brainstorming activity and discussion questions related to the medical tasks. There is a vocabulary introduction section and sample nurse/patient dialog.

There is a grammar explanation section with sample sentences and a follow-up exercise at the end.

Taking a Patient's Blood Pressure Lesson Plan:

- Part one of this medical procedure worksheet deals with brainstorming language surrounding taking a patient's blood pressure, pulse and temperature. Have the students complete this first task.

- In pairs or small groups try the discussion questions. Hopefully, that will draw out some of the key vocabulary needed for this medical procedure. Move around the class and assist students as needed. Once students are finished, verify answers as a whole-class discussion activity.

- Go over the medical vocabulary with the class and check understanding. Allow students to work in pairs first to discuss the meaning and then explain the words to the class as needed.

- Read the dialog aloud to the class. Students can just listen or listen and repeat. (I usually have them listen one time and then I read the dialog again for them to listen and repeat.)

- Have students practice the dialog in pairs and then ask several groups to perform the procedures in front of the class without the handouts.

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