exercises

Here are some links to websites where you can learn more about the topics in the unit and further practice the different skills presented.

More practice on phone numbers:

For more activities on the imperative:

Health Listening Passages

Beginning level and intermediate level students

Topics:
Scripted listening passages with text (for lower level students).

Health related Vocabulary

• Health Flashcards
  Download flash cards for pain related words. Membership required- $22 a year. (note: you must click on the link on the page to get the related materials)

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Health related topics

Links to ESL websites focusing on the language used in the Health and Social Services Domain

For use by teachers and students/professionals

1. EFL Laboratory

Website’s description: “This site targets listening, reading, and writing skills for students enrolled in the health sciences.

Online Pronunciation Guides and Practice Activities

• Word stress in English, including rules, practice and a quiz
• Sentence stress in English, including rules, listening activities and a quiz
• Word linking in English, including consonant to vowel and vowel to vowel

Games and other fun language-learning activities

• Crossword puzzles - for all levels
  (on all kinds of vocabulary topics and grammar points)

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Online Quizzes

(all areas of language development, suitable for all levels)

• Active vs. passive voice
• “a little” vs. “a few”
• “a” vs.

General Vocabulary Development

• Guessing the meaning of difficult vocabulary items from context
• Idioms using parts of the body
• Word-building: nouns from adjectives
• Word-building: nouns from verbs
• Words with

Grammar Activities

Here are various links for grammar activities for all levels:

Online Grammar Rule Sheets

• How to use “So do I”, “Neither do I”, etc. Includes a printable page and practice quiz
• Shows the difference between “all” and “whole”.

Listening Skills

• Short news reports in English - updated weekly
  (Each broadcast includes pre-taught vocabulary items, comprehension questions and dictation exercises)
• Listen to past programs from CBC radio
• Hundreds of short, high-quality video clips from around Britain - for advanced level students