Summary
This ESL lesson plan helps A1-level English students learn essential vocabulary and phrases for visiting a pharmacy. Students will practice describing common symptoms like a headache or a cold and learn how to ask for medicine and advice.
This lesson uses practical, interactive exercises to build confidence for real-life health situations. Activities include a listening exercise, vocabulary matching, grammar practice with "I have a..." and "My... hurts," and a role-play to simulate a pharmacy visit.
Activities
- A warm-up discussion about feeling sick and going to the pharmacy to activate students' existing knowledge.
- A listening exercise where students fill in the gaps in a simple conversation to practice understanding key phrases used at a pharmacy.
- An interactive drag-and-drop game to match vocabulary for common symptoms (e.g., 'headache,' 'cough') with their definitions.
- A grammar focus on using "I have a..." and "My... hurts" correctly, reinforced with multiple-choice and sentence-building exercises.
- A guided role-play activity that allows students to practice a conversation between a pharmacist and a customer, using the language from the lesson.
Vocabulary focus
This lesson introduces essential vocabulary for talking about health and visiting a pharmacy. Key terms include "headache," "cough," "cold," "sore throat," "medicine," "pharmacist," and "pain relievers."
Grammar focus
The grammar section focuses on two simple but important structures for describing health problems: "I have a..." for general symptoms (e.g., I have a cold) and "My ... hurts" for specific pain (e.g., My throat hurts).
