Unit 6: Diseases and Illness

Vocabulary Builder Activity

Students will learn the following key terms and phrases:

• Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
• Anemia
• Bacterium
• Cancer
• Chlamydia
• Condition
• Diabetes
• Disorder
• Epidemic
• Heart disease
• Incurable
• Infectious
• Infertility
• Influenza
• Meningitis
• Outbreak
• Polio
• Sexually transmitted disease
• Terminal
• Virus

Reading Activity: Diseases and Illness.

Students will be able to correctly answer true/false questions after reading and listening to topical short articles and dialogs featuring topical vocabulary.

Extract from a medical journal. According to recent statistics from the American Center for Disease Control (CDC), the number of people suffering from serious diseases has increased when compared to ten years ago. This raises the questions: Why has this happened? and What can be done to stop it? The expectation was that this number would decrease thanks to… Continue

Multiple Choice Activity

Students will be able to select the best match between unit terms and their definitions.

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Listening Comprehension Activity

Students will be able to listen to short audio clips in English and then spell them correctly.

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Spelling and Recognition

Students will be able to identify and spell a vocabulary term correctly given only the definition.

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Speaking Practice Activity

Students will be able to speak and record 5 example sentences from the unit vocabulary and then submit them for grading by the classroom teacher. If no teacher is available or desired, then the students will be shown good examples of other students' work.

Writing Practice Activity

Students will write a short essay to be graded by the teacher. If no teacher is available or desired, then the student is shown previous examples of other writings by students.