Lesson 15: Sicknesses and Symptoms
Lesson Plan
Learning Objectives:
 Students should be able to state various feelings
 Students should be able to state how they feel
Vocabulary:
 Sick
 Tired
 Nauseous
 Well
 Sore throat
 Headache
 Stomachache
 Cold
 Cough
 Fever
 Flu
 Earache
 Backache
 Diarrhea
 How are you feeling today?
 I feel ____.
 I have (a) _____ (eg. Headache)
Required Materials:
 Whiteboard and markers
 Pictures of sicknesses
o Sicknesses worksheet
o Health Problems PDF
o Health Problems 2 PDF
Lesson Plan:
Review material from previous lessons.
Sicknesses
1. Introduce new vocabulary using pictures and motions to represent illnesses. For each
word, write the word on the board and show a motion/picture. Have students repeat
each word 2-3 times.
a. Sick
b. Tired
c. Nauseous
2.
3.
4.
5.
d. Well
e. Sore throat
f. Headache
g. Stomachache
h. Cold
i. Cough
j. Fever
k. Flu
l. Earache
m. Backache
n. Diarrhea
Hold up pictures and ask students what it is (e.g. hold a picture of someone with a
headache- students should say “headache”). Keep the words written on the board
behind them so students can use that as a clutch.
Repeat the words students have difficulty with 2-3 times
Now hold up pictures again, but this time, take away the clutch so that the students
can’t see the words on the board. This allows them to practice remembering the words.
Activity: Charades- Put sicknesses in a bag/hat and have students pick out a sickness to
act out. Let students guess the sickness.
How are you feeling?
1. Teacher dialogue:
a. T1: How are you feeling today?
b. T2: I feel sick.
2. T writes on the board “How are you feeling today, and says the phrase. Students repeat.
3. T writes on the board “I feel ___” and inserts a word. Students listen and repeat.
a. word options:
b. Sick
c. Tired
d. Nauseous
e. Well/Good
4. T asks individual students “how are you feeling today?”, students respond
5. Teacher dialogue:
a. T1: How are you feeling today?
b. T2: I feel sick. I have a ________.
c. word options:
i. Sore throat
ii. Headache
iii. Stomachache
iv. Cold
v. Cough
vi. Fever
vii. Flu
viii. Earache
ix. Backache
x. Diarrhea
6. T shows a picture of a sick person. Writes on the board “how is he feeling today?” “he is
sick, he has a _____”
7. T asks students to respond for the picture- he is sick, he has a ____”