PDFs, lesson plans and lists of useful language for teaching English to doctors, nurses, people working in pharmaceutical companies, etc. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Lists of useful Medical English
British and American medical English list – the tenth list here
Colloquial expressions for medical terms
The answer key to this brainstorming worksheet
Photocopiable Medical English classroom materials
See further down the list for more general ones
Medical English news lessons/ discussion lessons/ issue-based lessons
Body image problems for men (my version of a Guardian news lesson)
Denial of treatment for smokers and the obese (ditto)
Scientific proof of alternative medicine (similar)
Medical English lesson plans with worksheets
The roots of medical English– (with four worksheets – originally written for Onestopenglish but here for free!)
Medical English pronunciation worksheets
Technical and medical a and u pairwork
Medical English difficult sounds pairwork
Technical and medical Simple Past pronunciation
Medical English worksheets including grammar
Defining medical vocabulary with relative clauses practice – NEW
Medical problems and solutions Present Perfect practice
Medical English Present Continuous mimes
Technical and medical Simple Past pronunciation
Medical moral dilemmas for second conditional
Passive tenses medical breakthrough dominoes
Medical English articles definitions game
Medical vocabulary Relative clauses definitions game (for use with IELTS Graduation, but last page useable without the book)
Other photocopiable medical English classroom activities
Strong and weak medical advice – NEW
Guess the medical problems from the advice
Medical controversies vocabulary and discussion
The history of medical English
The original meanings of medical vocabulary
Health and fitness vocabulary ask and tell game
Health and exercise generalisations and recommendations (with useful language for writing reports)
Health vocabulary brainstorming
FCE Writing Part One essays on health
FCE Speaking Part Four on health
Medical problems and symptoms guessing
The history of medical English
Medical English online practice
Medical English for doctors and patients (29 useful but rather boring online quizzes, actually also covering stuff for neither doctors nor patients, including language for dentists, about biotechnology, etc – near the bottom of the page)
Other other people’s Medical English lessons
English for nurses and medical professionals (basic lists and quizzes from Englishclub.com)
A long list of Medical English links (mostly for language learners, but some originally for native speakers)
Updated 11 October 2022
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Hello, can I just say, your lessons are amazing and super super helpful!!!! Thank you for taking the time and trouble to post all these nifty lesson plans!
This is a great resource, adding some nice activities to the curriculum I use. Thanks so much.
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Fantastic resources. Thank you so very much
Hi
I have taken a Tefl course recently.
I’m a recently retired medical practitioner.
How does one get work teaching medical English?
I would be grateful for any tips.
Yours
Michael Lyall