The health and medical sciences are specialized subjects with a lot of vocabulary learning required by students who are not native speakers of English. It’s now quite easy to access large libraries of images and create really useful health science vocabulary worksheets with images that graphically correspond with specific vocabulary. Topics include a venipuncture and health check lesson and exercises for scientific adjectives, measuring, laboratory vocabulary and microbiology related vocabulary.
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10 Helpful Health and Medical Sciences Vocabulary and Language Exercises
1 Health/medical sciences vocabulary worksheets
These health/medical sciences vocabulary worksheets using images which graphically represent the meanings of words are great introductory exercises for teaching non-native speakers the English language terminology of medical sciences subjects such as medical technology.
Health/medical sciences vocabulary 1 (PDF)
Health/medical sciences vocabulary 2 (PDF)
2 Venipuncture and health check vocabulary exercises (with answers)
This is a complete venipuncture and health check language lesson including picture vocabulary matching, multiple choice quiz and venipuncture process writing activity. I have developed this lesson for teaching medical technology students in Thailand.
3 Scientific adjectives
“Scientific adjectives” includes adjectives frequently used in the health sciences. It also includes a picture-vocabulary matching activity and a comparative adjective grammar exercise helping students understand how to use these adjectives when making comparisons.
4 Basic measuring vocabulary
“Basic measuring vocabulary” includes vocabulary commonly used for talking about amounts, sizes and quantities in medical science situations such as in a laboratory.
5 Jobs and people in medicine
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.
6 Using needles (giving injections) vocabulary
This is an elementary ESL exercise for practicing language useful for talking about using needles and giving injections. Students try to complete the sentences with the words at the top of the page.
7 Talking about blood vocabulary worksheet
This is an elementary ESL exercise for practicing language useful for talking about blood. Students try to complete the sentences with the appropriate words.
8 Laboratory related vocabulary and expressions
This exercise includes language commonly used to talk about equipment and other aspects of a laboratory.
9 Microbiology related vocabulary review
This includes worksheet includes language commonly used to talk about topics related to industrial microbiology.
10 Basic vocabulary for medical tools worksheet
This is an elementary English language exercise introducing medical tools vocabulary. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures.
