Beginner Health at the Chemist Tutor Notes

Beginner Health At the Chemist Tutor Notes

Beginner Health At the Chemist: Tutor Notes

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Task 1: / Can shop at the chemist
Vocabulary: / chemist, pharmacy, prescription, eye drops, cream, ointment, syrup, inhaler, tablets, soluble tablets, capsules, spray
Language structure: / What’s this? It’s ___ (ointment, cream an inhaler etc).

Preparation

Bring some empty containers of authentic items from the chemist and an old prescription to the session.

Activity instructions

Identify and discuss items from the chemist

Worksheet1: Chemist

Show the picture on the worksheet and discuss.

Ask questions: Where are these people? Explain that the two words, pharmacy and chemist, mean the same.

Do you ever go to the chemist?

What can you buy at the chemist?

Introduce the word ‘prescription’. Show a real prescription and discuss.

Ask: Has the doctor given you a prescription?

Worksheet 2: At the chemist

Show the pictures on the worksheet and discuss.

Introduce vocabulary. Learner repeats.

Show some real items or point to the pictures and ask: What’s this? Model language: It’s ointment.

Discuss which items learner has bought.

Extension activity

Role play shopping at the chemist

Role play buying things at the chemist.

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