English for Healthcare Professionals

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

9. The cost of healthcare

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

6. Your experience

Media

4. Listen: How the healthcare system works

Speaking

7. Pronunciation: Word stress

8. Say the words

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

3. Practice the words

5. Test Yourself: Vocabulary review

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

9. Let's read: Health insurance cards

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

5. Your experience: Paying for healthcare

8. Your experience: Word stress in your language

Media

2. Listen: Health insurance costs

4. Listen: Health insurance explained

Speaking

6. Pronunciation: Word Stress

7. Pronunciation: Say the words

Vocabulary

3. Word to use

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

3. What's the difference?

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

Media

4. Listen: What's the difference?

Use of English

6. Your experience

7. Reflect on your learning

Writing

5. Venn diagrams

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

6. Clear pronunciation: 'th'

7. Practice: A 'th' tongue twister

Vocabulary

3. Word to use

Media

4. Watch and take notes

Use of English

5. Your experience

9. Reflect on your learning

Writing

2. Using a KWL chart

8. Listen and write: Dictation

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

3. Read and listen: At Urgent Care

Use of English

6. Your experience: TV for English

8. Your experience: Hospitals and clinics

9. Reflect on your learning

Media

4. Listen: Hospital language

Speaking

7. Say it: What's the matter?

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

5. Language use: In the hospital

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

7. Let's read: Workplace injuries

Use of English

8. Reflect on your learning

Media

3. Watch this: Having a safety attitude

Speaking

4. Pronunciation 1: The "er" sound

5. Say it: The "er" sound

6. Pronunciation 2: Accent varieties

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

5. Reading pie charts

Structure

6. Simple vs progressive

Vocabulary

2. Noticing word families

Media

3. Listen: Slips, trips, and falls

Speaking

4. Pronunciation: the /æ/ sound

Use of English

7. Your experience

8. Reflect on your learning

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

5. Say it: Movement verbs

7. Pronunciation: Rising intonation

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Back safety

3. Words to use: Movement verbs

Media

4. Listen: Back safety

Use of English

6. Language use: Advice language

8. Your experience

9. Reflect on your learning

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

6. Read & listen: Which fire extinguisher?

Use of English

4. Language use: Phrasal verbs

7. Reflect on your learning

Media

3. Listen: Fire safety

Speaking

5. Pronunciation: Word stress

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

7. Pronunciation: Say the idiom

Use of English

8. Your experience

9. Reflect on your learning

Media

2. Listen: Safety at work

Structure

5. Language use: Parts of speech

Vocabulary

3. Words to use

4. Words to use: Word families

6. Idiom break: As right as rain

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Media

4. Listen: PPE keeps you safe

Use of English

7. Your experience

8. Reflect on your learning

Listening

5. Listen: Removing your gloves

Reading

3. Bloodborne pathogens

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

6. Language use: Word parts

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Media

4. Listen: What to do

Use of English

7. Your experience

9. Reflect on your learning

Writing

8. Listen & write: Dictation

Listening

2. Listen: Number practice

Reading

3. Read & listen: Needlesticks

Vocabulary

5. Words to use

6. Idiom break: Taking things for granted

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Media

5. Listen & take notes: Food Service

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Kitchen vocabulary

3. Words to use: Food safety

4. Using a word map

7. Vocabulary Review!

Listening

8. Listen & write: Numbers

9. Listen & write: Larger numbers

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

6. Your experience

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

3. Practice the words

5. Pronunciation & word stress

Use of English

9. Reflect on your learning

Media

4. Handling hazardous waste

7. When and how to use passive voice

Structure

6. Who’s doing what: Passive vs active

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

8. Idiom break: Better safe than sorry!

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Listening

3. Listen for rejoinders and follow-up questions

Use of English

6. Your experience

7. Reflect on your learning

Conversation and Practice

2. Rejoinders and follow-up questions

Speaking

4. Say it: Practice

Vocabulary

5. Idiom break: Speak your mind

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

3. Listen & read: Active listening skills

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

5. Idiom break: On the same page

Media

4. Listen: Active listening tips

Use of English

6. Your experience

7. Reflect on your learning

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

2. Asking for clarification

4. Listen and ask a focused question

5. Asking focused questions

Vocabulary

7. Natural English: Question idioms

Listening

3. Listen: Focused questions

Use of English

6. Your experience

8. Reflect on your learning

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

6. Read: I think or We believe

Use of English

8. Your experience

9. Reflect on your learning

Media

5. Listen: Giving/asking for opinions

Speaking

7. Say it: Discuss this topic

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Giving your opinion

3. Words to use: Asking for opinions

4. Words to use: Words about cities

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

8. Say it: Discuss

Use of English

9. Reflect on your learning

Media

6. Listen: More ways to agree/disagree

7. Listen: Giving opinions

Structure

5. Me, too/Me neither

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Agreeing/disagreeing

3. Words to use: More ways...

4. Words to use: Even more ways...

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Media

2. Listen: Rising intonation

Use of English

3. Your experience

7. Reflect on your learning

Listening

5. Show you understand

Speaking

6. Practice: Asking for clarification

Vocabulary

4. Words to use: Ask for repetition

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Listening

3. Listen and paraphrase

Use of English

5. Your experience

7. Reflect on your learning

Conversation and Practice

6. Checking you've understood

Speaking

4. Pronunciation: Sounding friendly

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Paraphrasing

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

6. Pronunciation: Sounding friendly

7. Practice paraphrasing

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Paraphrasing

Listening

3. Choose the best paraphrase 1

4. Choose the best paraphrase 2

Use of English

5. Your experience

9. Reflect on your learning

Writing

8. Writing: Dictations

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

5. Surface and deep culture

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Culture words

3. Practice the words: Cultural iceberg

8. Idiom break: The tip of the iceberg

Media

4. Listen: The cultural iceberg

6. Listen: Cultural misunderstandings

Use of English

7. Your experience

9. Reflect on your learning

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Media

4. Culture: Ways to greet people

Speaking

3. Using contractions

Vocabulary

2. Introduction language

Listening

5. Listen: Introduce yourself

Reading

6. Read & listen: How close is too close

Use of English

7. Your experience

8. Reflect on your learning

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

8. Let’s read: Thanksgiving statistics

Structure

7. Prepositions of time

Writing

2. What do you know?

Media

3. American holidays

5. Choose one holiday to explore

Speaking

10. Making connections

6. Giving a presentation

9. Pronunciation: /w/ and /v/

Use of English

11. Reflect on your learning

4. Your experience

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

3. Say it politely: Intonation

Vocabulary

5. Making polite requests

6. Responding 'yes' to requests

7. Responding 'no' to requests

Media

2. Listen: Polite requests

Use of English

4. Your experience

9. Reflect on your learning

Writing

8. Listen and write: Dictations

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

3. Gestures: Read and learn

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

6. Your experience

Media

7. Gestures around the world

9. Note-taking: Gestures around the world

Speaking

4. What gestures do you see?

8. Communicating with gestures

Vocabulary

2. Body parts

5. Thumbs up: You got it

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

3. Pronunciation: Connected speech

Use of English

8. Your experience

9. Reflect on your learning

Writing

7. Listen & write: Dictations

Media

2. Listen: Polite suggestions

Structure

4. Noticing form

Vocabulary

5. Idiom break: I'm swamped

6. Responding to suggestions

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

5. Pronunciation of lists

9. Natural English: Sports idioms

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Sports and culture

3. Practice the words

Reading

4. Read & listen: Conversational styles

6. Read & listen: 3 different sports

8. Read & listen: Basketball tips

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

7. Your experience

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Media

2. Listen: Inviting

7. Listen: Refusing an invitation

Speaking

10. Practice inviting, accepting, and refusing

Vocabulary

5. Words to use: Dietary restrictions

6. Words to use: Accept an invitation

8. Words to use: Turning down an invitation

9. Idiom break: A rain check

Listening

11. Listen & write: Dictation

Reading

3. Read: Dinner party "rules"

Use of English

12. Reflect on your learning

4. Your experience

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started

Reading

7. Read & listen: Go big or go home!

9. Read & listen: Comparing cultures

Structure

10. Language use: Absolutely!

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Exaggerating

3. Practice the words

6. Tech: Google Ngram Viewer

Media

4. Listen: 10 ways to exaggerate

Speaking

5. Natural English: Exaggerating with absolutely

Use of English

11. Reflect on your learning

8. Your experience

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

2. Let’s read: Scanning

8. Read: Introducing yourself

Use of English

12. Reflect on your learning

5. Emotion and facial expressions

6. Your experience

Writing

11. Writing: Dictations

Media

9. Listen: Good/bad interactions

Speaking

10. Say it: Happiness idioms

7. Natural English: Happy idioms

Vocabulary

3. Words to use

4. Practice the words

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started

Speaking

2. Irony in everyday English

6. An ironic tone of voice

7. Responding to irony

8. Sarcasm

Vocabulary

3. Words to use

4. Practice the words

Media

5. Learning more about irony

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

9. Your experience

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

6. Read & listen: Mindfulness

Structure

10. Irregular adverbs

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

3. Practice the words

8. Common suffixes

Media

4. Listen: Time management

5. Listen: Mindfulness and meditation

Speaking

9. Pronunciation: Word stress with -tion

Use of English

11. Reflect on your learning

7. Your experience

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started

Media

2. How to tell a joke in English

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

9. Your experience

Writing

4. Dictation: What’s the punchline?

Listening

3. The set up and punchline

5. More jokes: Listen and laugh

6. Medical jokes

Speaking

7. Your turn: Tell some jokes!

Vocabulary

8. Read about it: Collocations

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

7. Note-taking abbreviations & symbols

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

5. Your experience

Writing

6. Writing: Note-taking symbols

8. Writing: Dictations

Listening

2. Listen & take notes: Professionalism

Structure

9. Language use: More and more

Vocabulary

3. Word to use

4. Practice the words

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

5. Read & listen: Signing a form

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

6. Your experience

Writing

9. Listen & write: Dictations

Media

4. Listen: The chain of infection

Speaking

7. Pronunciation: Consonant clusters

8. Pronunciation: Transforming sounds

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

3. Practice the words

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Use of English

13. Reflect on your learning

7. Your experience

Writing

12. Dictation: Idioms & phrasal verbs

Media

10. Phrasal verbs: Learn and practice

4. Listen: Hospital codes

5. Natural English: Color idioms

8. Listen: Hazardous spills

Vocabulary

11. Idioms with color words 2

2. Words to use: Codes and spills

3. Practice the words

6. Words to use: Color idioms

9. Phrasal verbs: Cleaning “up”

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

5. Precaution signs

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

Writing

6. Venn diagrams: Critical thinking

Media

4. Listen: Precaution signs

Speaking

7. Pronunciation: s or sh?

8. Tongue twisters

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Precaution signs

3. Practice the words

9. Word parts: en-/em-

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Speaking

5. Your experience: Your passwords

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Safe passwords

3. Practice the cybersecurity words

6. Word families

7. Word parts: -ize and -ization

Media

4. Listen: Creating a safe password

Use of English

9. Reflect on your learning

Writing

8. Writing: Dictations

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started

Reading

5. Good cybersecurity practices

6. Decide: Is it a scam?

Use of English

11. Your experience

12. Reflect on your learning

Media

10. Listen: Avoiding phishing

4. Listen: Phishing explained

Speaking

8. Word stress on compound nouns

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: Cybersecurity

3. Practice the words

7. Compound words: pass + word = password

9. Natural English: Animal idioms

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started!

Reading

7. Read: How to “talk” to ChatGPT

8. Be careful: ChatGPT makes mistakes

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

Media

4. Listen: ChatGPT explained

5. Listen: How to use ChatGPT

6. Let's do this: Using ChatGPT

Speaking

9. Your experience

Vocabulary

2. Words to use: ChatGPT and AI

3. Practice the words: AI and ChatGPT

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started

Reading

6. Read: Professional emails

Vocabulary

2. The 5 parts of an email

3. Words to use

4. Practice the words

8. Idiom break: In the loop

Media

5. Listen: Professional emails

Use of English

9. Reflect on your learning

Writing

7. Write a professional email

Contents

0. Objectives & teacher resources

1. Let's get started

Reading

6. Texting: abbreviations

Use of English

10. Reflect on your learning

8. Your experience

Media

4. Listen: Device security

5. Listen: Safe smartphone passcodes

7. Listen: Text professionally

Speaking

9. Natural English: "Easy" idioms

Vocabulary

2. Words to use

3. Practice the words