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This is usually a fun les son. Learners love it b ecause there’s lots of speaking and listening practice and they can use their imaginati ons and senses of hum our. Procedure:
1 Divide your class in half; half are doctors, half are p atients. 2 Put the patients in an area of the class which becomes the waiting room. The patients sh ould either come up with their ow n symptoms, or you can give them a few ideas – the one who wakes up in the morning feeling sick, the one who can’t sleep, the one w ho’s putting on a lot of weight or th e one who’s losing weight. The pa tient can have any kind of ailm ent they want and the idea is that e very patient should visit every doc tor and get advice from that docto r.
3 Set a time limit for each consultation with the doctors. When the patients ha ve visited each doctor, they ma y want to make notes of the ad vice given, they return to the wa iting area and decide who was the best doctor, and perhaps who was the craziest! 4 Meanwhile, the doc tors all get together, because the y are at a medical conference , and they have to compare the advice they’ve given – and p erhaps decide who was the craziest patient!
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