At the Hospital Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives: To develop and practise reading for specific information, hospital vocabulary, and to review passive sentences. Skill/Grammar: Reading, Vocabulary, Writing, Passive Voice Resources: At the Hospital Worksheet, At the Hospital Answer Key Preparation Time: 0 minutes Completion Time: 60 minutes Age/Level: Lower Secondary/Intermediate

Warm-Up (5 minutes)
Students complete the mind map in small groups. Feed back to create a class mind map on the board.
Key: The mind map may include the following words and phrases: e.g. waiting room hospital ward operating theatre X-ray department paediatric clinic A&E department large kitchen pharmacy

e.g. nurses doctors patients specialists surgeons radiologists paediatricians A&E doctors chefs pharmacists

people hospitals

places

activities

e.g. take someones temperature examine a patient write a prescription prescribe medicine operate on someone take a blood sample take X-rays treat children prepare meals mix, measure, hand out medicine

Reading (10 minutes)

Students work individually to complete the table. Students then add any new words/phrases to their mind map.

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Key: 2 job Kenny Ayoub Maria Mark Laila radiologist paediatrician A&E doctor chef pharmacist place paediatric clinic A&E department large kitchen pharmacy main activity treats children examines and treats patients prepares meals mixes, measures, hands out medicine 3 See the words and phrases in italics in the mind map. X-ray department takes X-rays

Presentation (10 minutes)

Remind students that the focus of the sentence comes at the beginning of the sentence. In the first sentence, the focus is on what happened (X-rays are taken ). In the second sentence, the focus is on the person (Radiologists ) Elicit that the sentence where the focus is on the person is an active sentence because radiologists are doing the action. The other type of sentence is a passive sentence. Analyse the two different sentences on the board. 1 X-rays are taken in the X-ray department. 2 Radiologists take X-rays in the X-ray department. Elicit the structure of the sentences: Simple present (active): Simple present (passive):
Key: 4 a We should use the second sentence, Radiologists take X-rays in the X-ray department. b We should use the first sentence, X-rays are taken in the X-ray department. c This type of sentence is called a passive sentence. d It is made using the verb to be + the past participle of the verb. The object of the active sentence comes at the beginning of the passive sentence, e.g. Radiologists take X-rays X-rays are taken.
SUBJECT VERB OBJECT

subject + verb + object subject (object of the active sentence) + (am/is/are) + past participle

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Practice (20 minutes)
Elicit that the sentences in activity 5 will be passive sentences. Students work individually and check in pairs.
Key: 5 Children are treated in the paediatric clinic. Patients are examined and treated in the accident and emergency department. Meals are prepared in the large kitchen. Medicine is mixed, measured and handed out in the pharmacy. 6 No. The verb wait is intransitive (intransitive is a word we use to describe verbs that dont have or dont need objects. It is written as an I in your dictionary.) Wait has no object that could come at the beginning of a passive sentence.

Elicit that the sentence in activity 6 cannot be changed into a passive sentence because wait is intransitive and there is no object in the sentence. Students make their own mind maps either individually or in small groups. Allow them to use dictionaries if necessary. Students write sentences based on their mind maps using the passive wherever possible, e.g. Letters are posted at a post office. / Trains leave from the railway station.

Check the students sentences.

Closure (15 minutes)

Students draw a grid which is 12 squares across and 12 squares down. Students use their sentences to create crossword puzzles. For the clues, they should copy out their sentences leaving a blank for each answer. e.g. Letters are posted at a _____________________ office. (4 letters) (Answer: post) Trains leave from the railway _____________________. (7 letters) (Answer: station) Students exchange the puzzles. Students find the missing words to complete the crossword puzzles.

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