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Describing Health Problems

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to describe common symptoms and simple health problems to another person or a health professional.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. I have a bad headache today.
    2. My throat hurts when I swallow.
    3. I have had a cough since yesterday.
    4. I feel tired and a little dizzy.
    5. I think I have a fever.
  • Grammar Focus: Have and feel for symptoms, simple present perfect for a recently continuing condition, and since for starting time
  • Vocabulary Focus: headache, cough, fever, sore, dizzy
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