Lead in

1. Play a video clip filmed by students and ask students what is wrong with the girl.

2. Free talk: Do you have health problems? List some.

Warm-up

1. Show some pictures of health problems and match them with correct phrases.

2. Simple drills: Students role-play a conversation with partners.

Listening

1. Guess: Show students a picture of Sandy and make them guess what Sandy’s problem is.

2. Listen to the material and check the guess.

3. Listen carefully and answer the following questions.

(1) What’s the relationship between the two speakers?

(2) How long has Sandy been feeling painful?

(3) What should Sandy do now to relieve his pain?

4. Read the listening material together and underline the expressions about Sandy’s health in the conversation.

5. Language points

1. 看上去健康     look well

2. 感觉良好       feel good

3. 那样的话       in that case

4. 看医生         see the doctor

5. 有选择         have a choice

6. 你怎么了？     What’s wrong with you?

7. 我的牙疼得要命。My tooth is killing me.

8. 疼了多久了？   How long have you been feeling like that?

9. 我建议你立刻去看医生。I suggest you go to see the doctor right now.

Speaking

1. Students need to come up with some other questions when asking about someone’s health and their responses.

2.  Rolets  play: Studenneed to make their own short dialogues with the expressions.

3.  Work in pairs and complete the conversation in Activity Four and ask some representatives to role play it.

Summary

1. Thinking: What should we do if we are sick in school? Then play a video clip to show the appropriate procedure.

2. Discussion: When we are sick, we need to buy some medicine. In this case, we are usually faced with the choice: domestic drugs or imported drugs. Which one will you choose and why?

Homework

1. Work in pairs and make a conversation including some expressions learnt in the class and film it into a vlog.

2. Write down the opinions and reasons in discussion and make it a short passage.