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How to explain common symptoms at a doctor's office or E.R. ( Emergency Room ). There's an integration of video sitcom, audio recording of a doctor-patient typical dialogue and infographics for pair or group work activity and qr codes! Feel free to use everything as a class sequence or choose one of the activities to integrate with your class. This is very suitable for pre-intermediate levels and what I liked most is the fact that there is room for expanding on vocabulary and also having fun with the typical Friends jokes that come up. Warmer Elicit from students common causes of stress nowadays and typical symptoms people have because of that. Show video up to counter 0:56 Vocabulary Noticing Elicit from students the symptoms Phoebe is having due to job stress. I suggest you pause the video after these sentences:  My chest hurts 0:31, 0:34 And now I can't breathe 0:37 Chandler asks : Phoebe, are you having a heart attack? Phoebe: Would I hav...

Indeed, it's December !  Suddenly it seems that all over the world everybody is decorating their homes, streets, buying gifts and organizing trips and parties... Think again. Of course people everywhere try harder, for a number of reasons, to have a better end of the year, despite everyone's personal struggles.  In such globalized world though, foreign language educators had better be concerned with the

This is the link to another article I wrote sharing my positive experience with the use of QR Codes. It was published on the Oxford University Blog and I'm both happy and proud to share it here in my blog Informed Teachers where this experience  exchange started. Cheers =) QR codes – using mobiles in the EFL classroom « Oxford University Press – English Language Teaching Global Blog @OUPELTGlobal