How to design this course?

Question

I'm teaching adults( nurses) English as a second language, and i'm suposed to design the course that contains the four skills( listening, speaking, writing,and reading) and it should be related to medical feild.please provide me of any helpfulreferences ?

Answer 1

We used to have to do patient presentations which incorporate these skills.

First, the course should cover each area separately: listening, speaking, writing,and reading. What do you hope students learn in these areas? What skills will they need to do each one?

Then include hands-on exercises for the students to do. For example:::

For 2nd-language students, you may need to do this with 1 group of students as "patients" then switch the groups.

Select at least 2 or 3 body systems that the "nurse" will assess in each "patient." Have example questions printed and role-play how nurses should do the assessment of the body system.

For the "patients," make slips of paper with certain symptoms THAT "patient" will pretend to have. Have the "patients" draw a slip from a bowl-- and those symptoms will be the answers the "nurse" needs to obtain -- through her questions -- from the patient.

The "nurse" will need to rely on listening and speaking to get the answers from the "patient."

Then each nurse will do a written "report" on the "patient."

You could include assessment for mental illness, or for patient wellness in a certain area, so there is variety in the assignments.

Limiting the assessment to 1 or 2 areas will make the assessment less overwhelming, but still teach the skills.

Have each "nurse" make a simple poster for words they personally found hard when doing their assessment. Words hard to say, pronounce, or to remember the meanings of those words. During their class presentation, the "nurse" could share her poster of English medical words she found hard--- thus the whole class benefits. Her poster should include 3 to 5 words, spelled correctly, with the definition.

From those word lists, you could compile a list of 20 words the nurses found hard....and give these 20 as a hand out to study. Then make a test based on 10 of those 20 words. For example, if a problem word was "nausea" put that in your 20 word list. The "test" will reinforce the student's learning of definitions and use of the English words.

You'll need, as the teacher, to gear this exercise to your class's abilities.


Hope this helps,

Lifes

Answer 2

Get yourself some books and workbooks on ESL... English Second Language teaching.. you'll find these at any local bookstore or on Amazon.ca or .com