What Are They Doing?

1 |PRACTISE: Workplace vocabulary

Who does what? Which picture matches each description?

a A health worker is talking to a patient.

b A dental health secretary is taking an X-ray of a patient.

c A health worker is helping a woman in a wheelchair.

d A childcare and youth worker is reading to a couple of children.

e Ambulance workers are loading a patient into an ambulance.

f A chiropodist is checking the custom foot insole of a patient.

g A medical orderly is pushing a patient in a wheelchair.

2 |REFLECT

In which of these occupations would you most and least like to work? Explain why.

3 |CREATE: Quiz and mind map

a On your own, make a quiz with five questions based on the mind map on pp. 64 – 65.

Example: In which occupation is a good knowledge of maths necessary? ( Answer : pharmacy technician) b Swap quizzes with a partner. See who can answer the most questions correctly. c The following occupations were not included in the mind map on pp. 64 – 65: skin care worker – orthopaedic technician – chiropodist –medical orderly – dental health secretary

Choose three of these occupations and create a mind map with the same kind of information as in the mind map you studied earlier.

Read the poem by Michael Rosen written for the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service (NHS). The NHS is the national medical and healthcare system that everyone living in the United Kingdom can use without being asked to pay the full cost of the service.