Mastering Medical English: Language Skills for Healthcare Professionals
19th February 2025
This page offers a diverse range of downloadable PDF exercises, listening materials, video exercises, and speaking activities related to healthcare and the medical sciences.
For the full sets of exercises, go to:
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Dialogue
AI in hospitals isn’t science fiction anymore – it’s helping doctors make better decisions right now. Through this conversation, you’ll pick up the words and phrases you need to talk about healthcare technology. Whether you’re describing symptoms to a virtual health assistant or discussing a relative’s AI-analyzed scan results, you’ll learn to navigate these conversations with confidence.
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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Visual Vocabulary
By connecting words to real examples – looking at how AI analyzes brain scans to detect problems or how neural networks learn from patient records – you’ll understand what all these technical AI healthcare terms actually mean in daily medical practice, no computer science degree needed. It’s like having a visual guide that translates complex medical AI concepts into clear, practical applications.
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Critical Thinking
The ethical and practical implications of AI in healthcare spark important debates in medical communities worldwide. This critical thinking exercise invites students to examine their perspectives on AI healthcare applications through three focused activities.
Drug Development Visual Vocabulary
Picture yourself as a molecule, journeying from a scientist’s breakthrough moment to becoming a life-saving medicine. At each step of your transformation – from laboratory experiments to pharmacy shelves – you’ll discover the exact words that tell your story. This visual journey demystifies the language of drug development, revealing how a spark of scientific inspiration becomes the medicine that helps real people.
Drug Development Dialogue
Step into a laboratory hallway conversation that captures a pivotal moment in medical research. Sarah and Omar’s exchange does more than just share news about a promising cancer treatment – it unveils the careful language scientists use to discuss hope, progress, and caution in drug development. Their dialogue weaves together three crucial perspectives: the researcher’s precision, the medical professional’s care, and the shared excitement of potential breakthrough treatments. As you explore their conversation, you’ll discover how these different viewpoints shape the way we talk about new medicines.
Drug Development Process Q and A
The journey from scientific breakthrough to approved medicine shapes the healthcare we receive today. This discussion guide explores the complex 10-15 year process that transforms promising compounds into life-saving drugs.
Drug Development Collocations
Why do medical researchers always say “side effects” but never “side results”? Why is it “Phase Three” and not “Third Phase”? In drug development, certain words naturally go together, creating a special language that everyone in the field understands. This set of exercises helps you learn these word partnerships through real examples from cancer research, clinical trials, and drug safety studies. You’ll discover how professionals talk about new medicines – from their first breakthrough to final approval.
Common Verbs for Medical Treatment
What’s happening in that hospital room? How do you explain what doctors and nurses are doing? This activity helps you learn the exact words medical professionals use – from simple actions like “measure” and “inject” to more complex terms like “rehabilitate.”
Common verbs for medical treatments worksheet (PDF)
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 Experiment: vocabulary classifying and listening
This exercise follows on from the one above, focusing on the same vocabulary.
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Describing Graphs
The “Describing Graphs for Medical Science” worksheet helps students 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.
Describing Trends
Similar but more difficult than the exercise above, this activity again focuses on vocabulary for talking about trends in the medical sciences.
Phrasal Verbs in the Medical Sciences
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.
Logistics for Medication and Pharmaceuticals
Have you ever wondered what happens between your doctor writing a prescription and you getting your medicine? This activity breaks down the whole process – from ordering medications to picking them up at the pharmacy. You’ll learn the exact words pharmacists use when talking about deliveries, refills, and payment systems
Functions of the Brain
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.
Venipuncture and Health Check (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.
Venipuncture and health check vocabulary exercises (PDF)
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.
Basic measuring vocabulary (PDF)
Laboratory Related Vocabulary and Expressions
This exercise includes language commonly used to talk about equipment and other aspects of a laboratory.
Laboratory related vocabulary and expressions (PDF)
Basic Vocabulary for Medical Tools
This is an elementary English language exercise introducing medical tools vocabulary. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures.
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