Learn English From Chinese - Hospital

1. Hospital
Parts of a hospital, people, sicknesses, conversations

2. Departments/Wards
• There are many departments in a hospital.
• Departments are also called wards.
• The place where a department is is called a wing.
• Where is the Radiology wing?
• What are the departments in your hospital?

3. Different departments,
different fields of study
http://www.hospitalenglish.com/students/fieldsofstud
y1.htm

4. Emergencies
People go to the hospital because of emergencies.
There are many types of emergencies. Can you
name some types of emergencies?

5. A. Be injured/hurt
B. Be unconscious
C. Be in shock
D. Have a heart attack
E. Have an allergic
reaction
F. Get an electric shock
G. Get frostbite
H. Burn yourself
I. Drown
J. Swallow poison
K. Overdose
L. Choke
M. Bleed/get cut
N. Can’t breathe
O. Fall
P. Break a bone

6. How can you help a patient
who…
• burnt themselves?
• swallowed poison?
• is bleeding?
• has frostbite?

7. Hospital Verbs
• start an IV/drip
• look at an MRI scan
• take blood pressure
• give a shot
• explain a problem
• listen to lungs/heart
• check ears
• bandage
• write in a chart
• pay the bill
• take the patient to…
• check eyes
• take a temperature
• take a pulse
• prep for surgery
• operate

8. Look at the flashcards!
http://www.hospitalenglish.com/flashcards/files/procedures_fl
ash.pdf
Look at the flashcards on this website and match them with
the Hospital Verbs on the previous slide.

9. Write a story
Think about an emergency in your life or in your
mother, sister, brother, father, friend’s life. What
happened? Did you/they go to the hospital? How
did the story end? Write, then tell your partner the
story.
Remember: past tense verbs
take took

10. end.