Lesson Overview

This ESL lesson plan on illnesses and treatment is perfect for your A2 beginner students. It provides all the necessary language and scaffolding to ensure students are able to participate fully and enjoy it. 

The class begins with a fun warm-up exercise. Next, they are introduced to new words related to the topic, which they are then challenged to use in the next exercise. 

The grammar point of “countable and uncountable nouns" is explained before learners are given a series of tasks related to the topic. Afterwards, there is a reading exercise in which students read about Wendy’s illness and trip to the doctors. 

This ESL lesson plan on illnesses and treatment finishes with an awesome speaking activity and dialogue task that your students will love!. The lesson finishes with an excellent listening activity which enables students to practise their comprehension skills. 

1. Warm up
2. Illnesses and treatment vocabulary. 
3. Expand your vocabulary. 
4. Countable and uncountable nouns. 
5. Grammar practice. 
6. Reading: Going to the doctor. 
7. Dialogue: Illnesses and treatment. 
8. Let’s talk. 
9. Listening.

Homework

As with all adult lesson plans on ESL Pals, there is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome ESL lesson plan on illnesses and treatment. Students are challenged to complete a series of past tense exercises which follows on from the lesson. 

1. Recap: New words.