4 Tantalizing Telephone Dialogue Exercises for Business English
Telephoning and messaging communication skills in businesses and offices are perhaps more important than ever before. There are many common expressions that students can learn to help them gain telephoning skills fluency .
1 Elementary telephone expressions (with answers)
This is a fun introductory exercise for English language learners that helps them become familiar with telephoning expressions and vocabulary.
2 Making an appointment telephone conversation (with answers)
This is a dialogue or role play exercise for students s to practice creating complete telephone conversations . Students use the cues in the boxes to write appropriate conversations.
This is a telephoning exercise for English language learners to practice using elementary language necessary for simple telephone calls. Students complete the speech bubbles with appropriate language and expressions.
3 Business socializing, requests and talking on the phone (with answers)
Another telephoning exercise for English language learners to practice using elementary language necessary for business socializing and making phone calls. Students complete the speech bubbles with appropriate language and expressions.
Collocations and phrasal verbs are critical to fluency in the English language. Once students start to get a hold of the ways words are joined together in conversation and in texts they are well on their way to being competent communicators.
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1 Common phrasal verbs 1
This is an introduction or review worksheet for common phrasal verbs. Students match the phrases to the pictures and answer the questions.
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2 Husband/wife phrasal verb role play and /or listening activity(with audio and answers)
This is an English ESL role play exercise for practicing phrasal or two part verbs. Students complete the conversations with suitable vocabulary. Then they can listen to the audio, compare answers and carry out the role play.
This is another listening/speaking worksheet for common phrasal verbs. This exercises focuses on the two ways in which phrasal verbs can be used (Eg. “I pick up the book” and “I pick up the book.”). Students listen and completer phrases and answer the questions.
I think the do/go/play collocations exercise is probably the most elementary collocation exercise given to students. It’s ok but usually focuses on sports, just for simplicity, I guess. Most of my students aren’t that interested in sports, so I like to change it a little. I also make it a little more difficult by teaching that “do” and “go” can often be used with the same nouns (eg. do/go shopping). Sometimes they are interchangeable and sometimes they are used for slightly different meanings. This makes it a bit more difficult but more accurately reflects the real world.
The do/make collocation exercise is probably the most useful and important elementary collocation exercise. These are verb-noun combinations that students really need in order to communicate in English.
There are so many verb-noun combinations that can help students improve their fluency. I’m in the process of creating many more of these. “Have” and “take” are two other basic verbs with many useful collocations.
8 Take or have or break ?? collocations exercise (with answers)
Students match the verbs “take” or “have” or “break” with the phrases scrambled at the top of the worksheet. Once they have done this they use the collocations and their own ideas to write sentences at the bottom of the page.
The exercise below is for exploring students’ knowledge of imperatives and collocations. Depending on the level and ability of the students, a teacher may ask students to work in groups or work independently. It is often surprising to learn which expressions students are and are not familiar with.
Brainstorming, outlining and exercises help students to order processes in a logical format and introduce students to process paragraph and essay writing.
1 Writing topic sentences for process essays (with possible answers)
This exercise helps students learn how to write topic sentences for process essays. Students look at the pictures and try to write appropriate topic sentences.
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2 Brainstorming processes for process essays
This is a brainstorming exercise for ideas for a process essay. It is a good icebreaker and a nice way to ease into the topic.
This exercise helps students understand how to write an outline for a process essay. Students match the scrambled sentences on the Page 2 to the appropriate part of the essay outline.
5 Process essay topic and support sentence exercises
This exercise helps students become familiarized with process essay topic and support sentences. Examples are given at the top of the worksheet and students complete the exercises lower down.
This is a worksheet describing the job application process. Students look at the pictures and write appropriate sentences for each step of the process.
Students match the vocabulary to the online order graphic. This exercise helps students become familiar with the language, vocabulary and expressions of online order processing.
Mastering Medical English: Enhancing Language Skills for Healthcare Professionals
Welcome to “Mastering Medical English”! This webpage offers a diverse range of downloadable PDF exercises, listening materials, video exercises, and speaking activities to facilitate effective learning.
Why is it important to learn English in the medical sciences?
In today’s interconnected world, proficiency in English has become a vital asset for healthcare professionals. English serves as the lingua franca of the medical community, allowing effective communication among healthcare providers, researchers, and patients from diverse linguistic backgrounds. By acquiring English language skills specific to the medical sciences, students can improve their ability to:
1. Collaborate with Multicultural Teams: In medical settings, professionals often work alongside colleagues from different countries and cultures. Effective English communication fosters seamless teamwork, enabling efficient patient care, research collaboration, and the exchange of knowledge and best practices.
2. Enhance Patient Care: Accurate communication between healthcare professionals and patients is crucial for accurate diagnosis, treatment, and ensuring patient safety. Understanding medical terminology, conveying instructions clearly, and empathizing with patients’ concerns are vital elements of patient-centered care.
3. Access Cutting-Edge Research: The medical sciences are continuously evolving, and the latest advancements are often published in English. Proficiency in English empowers students to access scientific literature, stay updated with breakthroughs, and contribute to the global medical community.
4. Pursue Global Career Opportunities: English proficiency opens doors to a wide range of international job opportunities in the medical sciences. Whether it’s participating in medical conferences, working in multinational healthcare organizations, or pursuing advanced studies abroad, strong English skills provide a competitive edge in the global job market.
Our Resources:
To equip both teachers and students with the necessary tools for success, our webpage offers a rich array of resources:
1. Downloadable PDF Exercises: Access a variety of exercises designed to reinforce medical vocabulary, grammar, and communication skills. These exercises can be easily printed and used for in-class or self-study sessions.
2. Listening Materials: Students listen to medical terminology used in various contexts.
3. Video Exercises: Explore a collection of educational videos focusing on commonly used medical terminolgy. These videos not only enhance vocabulary acquisition but also provide valuable insights into the real-world application of English in medical contexts.
4. Speaking Activities: Encourage interactive learning with a range of speaking exercises that simulate common medical scenarios. Students can practice giving presentations, role-playing patient consultations, and engaging in group discussions to boost their oral communication skills.
By utilizing these comprehensive resources, ESL teachers can empower their students to confidently communicate and effectively apply English in the dynamic field of the medical sciences.
Remember, mastering medical English is not only about linguistic proficiency; it is also about delivering quality healthcare and making a positive impact on patients’ lives. Let us embark on this exciting journey of linguistic growth and professional development together!
1 Common verbs for medical treatment listening speaking worksheet (with audio, video and answers)
The “Common Verbs for Health and Medical Treatment” worksheet is designed to improve English language learners’ vocabulary and understanding of medical and health-related terms. This interactive resource includes listening and matching exercises where learners pair vocabulary with corresponding pictures, and complete sentences using the given verbs. It also features an array of questions designed to elicit personal experiences related to health and medical issues, such as relieving a headache or consulting a medical professional. The worksheet includes vocabulary relating to different health scenarios and actions, such as prevention of infection, diagnosis of illness, admission to a hospital, adjusting medication, receiving a vaccine, monitoring vital signs, and experiencing stress-induced headaches. It covers a broad range of verbs and medical situations to facilitate a comprehensive learning experience.
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2 The experiment vocabulary introduction
The “Experiment Vocabulary” worksheet aims to enhance scientific vocabulary comprehension. The activity involves matching terms and expressions such as ‘adding’, ‘estimate’, ‘length and width’, ‘steady’, ‘tiny’, ‘measure’, ‘scales’, ‘lower’, ‘counting’, ‘ratio’, ‘less than 50 mls’ to corresponding images. Additionally, the worksheet offers multiple-choice questions that require students to choose the correct term corresponding to given options.
The “Describing Graphs for Medical Science” worksheet helps learners expand their vocabulary pertaining to trends and changes typically described in medical and scientific graphs. It requires students to match certain words and phrases, like ‘peaked’, ‘decrease sharply’, ‘increase slightly’, and ‘fluctuate a lot’ with corresponding images. Furthermore, it presents a series of fill-in-the-blank multiple choice sentences that describe scenarios related to healthcare, such as changes in patient’s blood pressure, pharmaceutical stock prices, and medication effectiveness. Each scenario has multiple-choice options for the missing term. The worksheet aims to build students’ confidence in describing and interpreting graphically presented data in medical science contexts.
“Common Phrasal Verbs for Medical Science” is designed for English language learners who want to familiarize themselves with prevalent phrasal verbs used in a healthcare setting. The worksheet weaves a visual narrative, encouraging learners to match given phrasal verbs with corresponding imagery, aiding in the comprehension and retention of each phrase. It further includes a series of scenarios pertaining to different medical situations, where learners fill in the blanks with the appropriate phrasal verbs from multiple choices. The verbs addressed in this worksheet include ‘bring over,’ ‘take off,’ ‘pull up,’ ‘put up,’ ‘put in,’ ‘plug in,’ ‘tear out,’ ‘press down,’ ‘get on,’ ‘take out,’ ‘pull out,’ and ‘put away.’ From the context of a pharmacist posting new information, a patient removing their shirt for an X-ray, to storing a new shipment of medication, the activity delivers practical exposure to the use of these phrasal verbs in real-life healthcare communications.
Dive into the world of pharmaceutical logistics with our interactive PDF worksheet, “Logistics for medication and pharmaceuticals.” This resource serves to nurture English language skills while simultaneously introducing key concepts related to the healthcare sector. Initially, learners are invited to link visuals with healthcare and logistics-related terminologies such as “patient,” “medication,” and “shipment,” offering an immersive and contextual understanding of the language. The latter section encourages learners to complete sentences by inserting suitable words from a given list, stimulating comprehension of pharmaceutical procedures and interactions, from home delivery and order placement to negotiation with pharmaceutical companies. This novel approach to language learning blends linguistics and industry-specific knowledge, fostering a multifaceted language experience.
This worksheet looks at the functions of the brain – fostering creativity, producing emotions, regulating appetite, and encoding memories. It encourages learners to examine their brain’s strengths and weaknesses and the effects of their habits on its functionality. It includes a matching task linking the brain’s functions to corresponding visuals and a fill-in-the-blank segment highlights functions such as language learning and neurotransmitter regulation.
Engaging students in thought-provoking discussions on viruses, vaccines, and the broader medical field, this English language learning PDF worksheet broadens learners’ vocabularies by prompting them to match words to corresponding statements (gap fill), including “immunity,” “clinical,” and “deadly.” Students are also encouraged to express their opinions on nine distinct statements about the role of vaccines, the nature of viruses, the economics of pharmaceuticals, and personal experiences with side effects.
11 Venipuncture and health check vocabulary exercises (with answers)
This worksheet focuses on vocabulary associated with venipuncture and routine health checks. It includes a pictorial matching task, aligning words and phrases like “dizzy”, “gauze”, and “withdraw the needle” with their corresponding images. The worksheet then challenges them with a multiple-choice section that tests their understanding of contextually used terms like “bandage”, “insert”, and “release”. In the final activity, learners write a sequential guide on the process of drawing blood, using relevant terms including “syringe”, “vein”, “tourniquet”, and more.
The worksheet is designed to help English language learners build their vocabulary around scientific adjectives. It features an activity where learners match these adjectives (like “flammable”, “soluble”, “malleable” etc.) to corresponding pictures. Following this, learners are instructed to sort the adjectives into comparative categories. Finally, students are asked to compose five unique sentences using each adjective in comparative form, demonstrating their comprehension and ability to use the words in context. An example provided in the worksheet is: “Oil is more flammable than water.”
“Basic measuring vocabulary” includes vocabulary commonly used for talking about amounts, sizes and quantities in medical science situations such as in a laboratory.
This is an elementary ESL exercise for practicing language useful for describing medical and health occupations. Students try to complete the sentences with their own ideas. There is some useful vocabulary at the bottom of the page.
This is an elementary English language exercise introducing medical tools vocabulary. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures.
Story telling is a good teaching technique for ESL students because:
1) Storytelling can help students learn new vocabulary in a contextualized way.
2) Storytelling can provide a fun and engaging way for ESL students to practice their listening skills.
3) Storytelling can help students develop their ability to understand spoken English.
4) Storytelling can help students improve their fluency and confidence in speaking English.
1 “The Next Champion?”
This is a sports story about an up and coming tennis champion. The story tracks the female tennis player’s career from her childhood and speculates about her future success.
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2 Mona Lisa’s Sister
In this international news story writing exercise, students have to write a story about the the recent (fictional) discovery of a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci similar to the “Mona Lisa” but titled “Lisa’s Sister”.
“Telling stories” is a story telling exercise using pictures. Students try to match the vocabulary at the bottom of the page to the pictures. Then they can listen to the audio and try to tell stories in the pictures. Or, they can create their own stories.
This is a human interest story. It is a story telling exercise about a common everyday occurrence. A woman loses her keys at the department store and is worried about being late for work. But everything ends well after her keys are returned to her.
This is an English language exercise aimed at engaging students in a discussion about the story of the Titanic. Students try to match the vocabulary at the bottom of the page to the pictures. Then they try to answer the questions and recreate the story of the Titanic in their own words. Or they can listen to the audio and then answer the questions.
Excellent ESL Teaching Exercises for Houses and Neighborhoods
January 3rd 2024
One of the most elementary topics that can be used to get students talking and giving opinions in English is housing. It’s one of those universal topics that works really well in speaking classes. Everyone has opinions about the how they want to live. It can be taught at many levels as long as the vocabulary is adapted to the students’ abilities. Role plays, questionnaires, surveys and picture-vocabulary matching exercises are some of the activities that work well with this topic.
1 Write a conversation: talking about houses & neighborhoods
This is a conversation writing exercise which could be the basis of a speaking activity or role play. Students get to talk about and describe their houses and neighborhoods.
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2 Expressing opinions about houses
A vocabulary and critical thinking exercise for discussing houses and places to live. Students use the words at the bottom of the page to complete the sentences and then agree/disagree with the statements and give reasons for their choices.
This exercise includes vocabulary commonly used to talk about housing and give opinions about neighborhoods and lifestyles. It is also used to discuss the pros and cons of different types of accommodation. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures and answer the questions.
This is an elementary speaking activity and interview in which pairs of students choose their preferred living options from the choices given in each box. They then write a short report comparing their partners preferences with their own.
8 Brainstorming the house: an icebreaker for discussing where you live and describing your house
Some icebreakers are so simple you might feel a fool for not having thought of them before. I certainly have. Brainstorming things…furniture …items…adjectives ..etc that might be used for parts of the house. What a no-brainer! But I didn’t think of it for 30 years of teaching. Icebreakers like this are great for setting up question writing exercises. Once the board is full of vocabulary, you can give a couple example questions, “What kind of furniture do you have in your living room?/ Do you have a big bed?/ Do you have a microwave in your kitchen etc…..” and ask students to create their own questions around the vocabulary.
This is an English language brainstorming, outlining and planning exercise for a presentation about a dream house. Students consider the factors listed on the page and jot down their ideas. I had to add some example sentences to make this activity work effectively. And then it was seamless!
10 Housing complaints, annoyances and problems (vocabulary and speaking with answers)
“Housing complaints’ is a slightly more advanced activity for talking about housing . Students match vocabulary to the pictures. Then they can ask each other the the questions at the bottom of the page.
This is a matching activity helping to familiarize students with vocabulary for houses. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures.
An imaginative role play in which students any kind of house they like and perform a role play with a partner using the questions on the second page of the handout.
This is an ESL writing worksheet for students to describe a room in their house, apartment or dormitory. First, students brainstorm ideas at the top of the page. Then, they write a paragraph about their room.
Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, or ideas. There are several types of nouns, including proper nouns, common nouns, concrete nouns, and abstract nouns. Additionally, there are collective nouns, countable and uncountable nouns, compound nouns, and possessive nouns. The exercises below use pictures, matching exercises, sentence gap fills, as well as listening and speaking exercises to teach nouns. The aim is to use a variety of exercises and engage multiple intelligences.
1 Elementary countable and uncountable nouns (food)
Knowing countable and uncountable nouns is important for students because: it helps them understand the difference between singular and plural nouns; it helps them in everyday language; and it helps them understand when to use articles like ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’.
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2 Countable/uncountable nouns for cities (upper elementary)
Talking about the advantages and disadvantages of cities is a popular way for teaching more advanced countable nouns and uncountable nouns.
3 Countable and uncountable nouns sorting (with answers)
One of the most confusing thing for ESL students is distinguishing between countable and uncountable nouns. In the handout below students try to identify countable and uncountable nouns in the pictures and and list them in the appropriate columns. Then they choose 5 nouns and write 5 sentences.
Another aspect of using nouns is being to use quantifiers which describe the degree or quantity of a specific noun.
Students look at each pictures and then write an appropriate sentence to describe how much or how little of each noun is being expressed by the picture.
