Antibiotics - Talking About Medication

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Talking About Medication: this series of articles help healthcare professionals practice discussing, in English, the medicine, proper medication use, side effects, and key vocabulary associated with the specific medication class.

Antibiotics

Key vocabulary associated with the antibiotic worksheets: antibiotic, characteristic, swelling, infection, prescription, allergic reaction, bacteria, medication, protein, viral infections, nausea, synthesis, resistant, vomiting, replicate, rash, tolerable

The antibiotics worksheet to print.

Part one of this antibiotic worksheet has an introduction to antibiotics. There are medical discussion questions about antibiotics for warm-up. At the bottom there is a list of key vocabulary for students to review and verify meaning before proceeding to the article.

How to use the Talking About Meds articles:

- Do the first brain storming task in pairs or small groups.

- Have the students answer the discussion questions.

- Go over the key vocabulary and have the students verify the meaning of each word. They can use the vocabulary in a sentence, write definitions for each word, list collocations, or write the translations to the side.

- Proceed to the medical article.

- Give the article to each student for them to read. Once finished they should relay the article and all of its key points to their partner or group. This should be done as a pair work or group discussion to verify everyone understands the information.

- Have students verify information, vocabulary or expressions with each other or the teacher.

- Once discussion is finished each member should answer the questions relating to the article. This can be done in interview fashion, or verified in groups after each student has written their answers.

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