Select useful words and connect them to a situation.
Vocabulary Builder · B1
Health, Treatment, and Recovery
Give useful health information by describing the symptom, when it began, how severe it is, what changes it, and what treatment or recovery has involved.
Your goal
By the end of this lesson, you can describe symptoms, severity, treatment, and recovery clearly in everyday health conversations.
Why these words matter
Use this vocabulary to move from naming the topic to explaining, comparing, choosing, or solving a real communication need. Learn the words in useful chunks, then use them in your own message.
TF14 · Health, Body & WellbeingTF14 · Health, Body & WellbeingProgress focusVRFP
VR · Vocabulary RangeChoose suitable target words or chunks and use them naturally in an original message.
FP · Functional PerformanceComplete the lesson’s real communication outcome with less support.
Lesson structure · Progress path and 30-minute route
Listen, notice and make short personal examples.
Use the vocabulary to complete a real communication task.
3 minSet the goal
7 minBuild words
5 minListen & notice
6 minSupported use
5 minCommunicate
4 minFinal & retry
Teacher Lesson Plan · Read before class
Teacher Guidance · How to conduct this class
30-minute must-do route
- Confirm the observable outcome and connect it to one realistic learner need.
- Use the visual and first audio or text for meaning before explaining language.
- Select only the useful-language items needed for this learner and this task.
- Run the supported rehearsal without reading every instruction aloud.
- Run the main task: Roleplay a non-emergency clinic conversation using fictional patient cards. Ask and answer questions to complete a safe information summary.
- Record focused evidence, give one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most, repeat the weakest part, and complete the exit check.
60-minute extension
- Summarise another person’s health update accurately and identify missing information.
- Change the role, information, listener, or constraint so the learner transfers the skill rather than repeating the same answer.
- Compare the first and second performance and record one specific improvement.
Make it easier
Use a symptom–time–severity–change form and fictional choices.
Make it harder
Summarise another person’s health update accurately and identify missing information.
Likely difficulty
The learner may confuse ache, pain, sore, and hurt or state a diagnosis as certain.
Correction priority
Correct potentially unsafe meaning first, then collocation and tense.
Thai support rule
Keep the Thai panel closed unless examples, visuals, replay, reformulation, and simpler English do not allow progress. Explain only the key distinction, then return to English.
Progress record
Score VR, FP from 0–2 and record one recurring need from: symptom-description, collocation, safe-communication.
Retry
Give one meaning-focused correction and one language-focused correction at most, then ask for a second attempt with fewer visible prompts.
Engduo Audio: Licensed voices prepared for this lesson. Audio never starts automatically. Use the transcript after the first listening attempt.
1. Build the useful words and chunks
Study the target language as useful words and chunks. Choose the items needed for this lesson goal and make one short personal example.
I’ve had ___ since ___.
It feels worse when ___.
The pain is mild but persistent.
I was prescribed ___.
I’m recovering from ___.
The symptoms have gradually eased.
How to run Stage 1
Model one word or chunk in a complete sentence. Ask the learner to choose only the items needed for today, explain the meaning and make a true example. Do not turn the whole language bank into reading practice.
2. Listen and connect the words to a situation
Look at the visual and listen before opening the transcript. Identify the situation and the words or clues that carry the meaning.
- symptom and body area
- severity and pattern
- treatment or advice
- recovery and change
Engduo Audio • British English
Transcript — open after listening
I’ve had a persistent cough since Monday. It feels worse at night, but I don’t have a fever.
Engduo Audio • American English
Transcript — open after listening
I was prescribed a short course of medicine, and the symptoms have gradually eased. I’m still recovering, so I’m resting more than usual.
How to run Stage 2
Use the visual before the transcript. Play each recording once, ask which word or clue carried the meaning, then replay once to confirm. The learner should explain the clue instead of guessing.
3. Use the vocabulary with support
Complete the supported task. Use the frame only while it helps, then make short, true examples instead of reading a list aloud.
- Separate symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, and recovery words.
- Build clear symptom descriptions from incomplete fictional notes.
- Choose language that reports experience without making a diagnosis.
How to run Stage 3
Demonstrate one supported example, then give the learner thinking time. Keep the frame visible only while it is needed and ask for a personal or situation-specific example.
4. Use the vocabulary to communicate
Exchange information, explain a choice, compare options, or solve the real communication need in this lesson.
Roleplay a non-emergency clinic conversation using fictional patient cards. Ask and answer questions to complete a safe information summary.
How to run Stage 4
Take the partner role and run the communication task without correcting every sentence. Ask one natural follow-up, switch roles when useful, and save the main correction until the round ends.
Final practice: Use the vocabulary independently
Complete the final task with keywords only. Receive one focused correction, then repeat the weakest part with less support.
Give a ninety-second health update with symptom, timing, severity, treatment, and recovery language, then answer two clarification questions.
Retry: Repeat once with clearer meaning, stronger evidence, more accurate listening, or less support.
How to run Stage 5
Remove full-sentence models. Let the learner complete the independent task first, score VR and FP from the evidence, give one focused correction, and ask for one shorter retry.
Exit check
Complete this without reading a model: Describe one fictional symptom and how it has changed, without diagnosing the cause.
Success looks like: The description is precise enough for the listener to understand the experience and avoids unsupported medical conclusions.
Evidence: speaking · Repeat the weakest part once after one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most.
Teacher scoring guide
Score the independent final attempt—not the supported practice.
VR · Vocabulary Range
0 · Not yet Relies mainly on teacher-supplied words or cannot yet choose vocabulary that fits the meaning.
1 · With support Uses some suitable target words after one prompt, model, or focused correction.
2 · Independent Chooses and uses a useful range of target words naturally in an original message.
FP · Functional Performance
0 · Not yet Cannot yet complete the stated communication outcome clearly enough for the listener.
1 · With support Completes the outcome after one clear prompt, repair, or supplied frame.
2 · Independent Completes the real communication outcome clearly without a model or supplied key sentence.
How to run the Exit check
Record focused evidence, give one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most, repeat the weakest part, and complete the exit check.
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Continue your learning path
- Council of Europe — CEFR Companion Volume — Supports action-oriented language learning through age- and level-appropriate interaction, descriptions, goal-oriented co-operation, written interaction, and observable communication outcomes.
- British Council LearnEnglish — Health vocabulary — Supports B1 topic vocabulary for discussing health, symptoms, treatment, and healthcare situations.
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