ESL Health Unit Three:
Managing Illness

Content Overview
Intermediate 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
• Using the modals “should”, “ought to”, “have to”, and “had better” to give advice
• Using modals to express future possibility
• Common reductions in spoken English (pronunciation)
• Using past tense modals

Cultural Focus

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