ESL Health Unit Three:
Managing Illness

Content Overview
Advanced Beginning Level

Health Focus

• Understanding and being able to talk about: the symptoms and complications of, the risk factors for, and ways to prevent and manage Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke

Language Focus

• Vocabulary for describing the symptoms, complications, risk factors and common treatments for diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke
• Use questions with helping verbs to get advice and information
• Use “will” and “be going to” to talk about the future
• Common reductions in spoken English (pronunciation)
• Using present and past continuous

Cultural Focus

• Discuss differences in how these chronic illnesses are thought about and managed from country to country