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Spanish A1.30: Health and wellbeing

Salud y bienestar

Spanish A1.30: Health and wellbeing

Learning goals:

  • Vocabulario básico de salud. (Basic health vocabulary.)
  • Expresar enfermedad y dolor. (Express sickeness and pain.)
  • Vocabulario médico básico. (Basic medical vocabulary.)
  • Adverbios de modo (Adverbs of manner)

Learning module 4 (A1): Describir objetos y personas. (Describing objects and people)

Recap exercises of the previous lesson

Teaching guidelines +/- 60 minutes

Core vocabulary (12)

El descanso: The rest (Spanish)

Después de caminar tanto, necesitamos un descanso.

(After walking so much, we need a rest.)

El descanso

(The rest)

Doler (to hurt) - Verb conjugation and exercises

A ella le duele la espalda.

(Her back hurts.)

Doler

(To hurt)

La salud: Health (Spanish)

Cuidarse bien es importante para la salud.

(Taking good care of oneself is important for health.)

La salud

(Health)

La fiebre: The fever (Spanish)

La fiebre alta puede ser muy peligrosa para la salud.

(High fever can be very dangerous for health.)

La fiebre

(The fever)

Los síntomas: The symptoms (Spanish)

El síntoma puede ser más intenso por la noche.

(The symptom can be more intense at night.)

Los síntomas

(The symptoms)

El medicamento: The medicine (Spanish)

El medicamento ayuda a mejorar la salud rápidamente.

(The medicine helps to improve health quickly.)

El medicamento

(The medicine)

El doctor: The doctor (Spanish)

La doctora está relajada después de meditar en su tiempo libre.

(The doctor is relaxed after meditating in her free time.)

El doctor

(The doctor)

La alergia: The allergy (Spanish)

La alergia causa síntomas incómodos.

(The allergy causes uncomfortable symptoms.)

La alergia

(The allergy)

La gripe: The flu (Spanish)

Ella tiene la gripe y no puede ir al trabajo.

(She has the flu and can't go to work.)

La gripe

(The flu)

Toser (to cough) - Verb conjugation and exercises

Nosotros tosemos cuando estamos enfermos.

(We cough when we are ill.)

Toser

(To cough)

Enfermo: Ill (Spanish)

El doctor está enfermo y necesita descansar.

(The doctor is ill and needs to rest.)

Enfermo

(Ill)

Ayudar (to help) - Verb conjugation and exercises

Él ayuda a su hermana con los deberes.

(He helps his sister with her homework.)

Ayudar

(To help)

Listening materials

Our listening materials implement the verbs, vocabulary and grammar topics of this lesson. Audio and video available!

A1.30.1 Diálogo: Un dolor de cabeza y de espalda

Spanish A1.30.1 A headache and back pain

Spanish A1.30.1 A headache and back pain

Pedro y Ana hablan sobre qué partes del cuerpo sienten dolor.

(Pedro and Ana talk about which parts of the body hurt.)

Audio
Audio
Audio with translations
Audio with translations

Teaching guidelines +/- 15 minutes

A1.30.2 Gramática: Adverbios de modo

Spanish A1.30.2 Adverbs of manner

(Adverbs of manner describe the way or style in which something happens. These adverbs answer the question 'how?'.)

Audio with translations
Audio with translations

Teaching guidelines +/- 15 minutes

A1.30.3 Cuento corto: María tiene la gripe

Spanish A1.30.3 María has the flu

Spanish A1.30.3 María has the flu

María tiene la gripe y va al doctor. Se siente muy mal y tiene que descansar mucho.

(María has the flu and goes to the doctor. She feels very bad and has to rest a lot.)

Audio
Audio
Audio with translations
Audio with translations

Teaching guidelines +/- 15 minutes

Exercises

These exercises can be done together during conversation lessons or as homework.

Exercise 1: Find the words

Instruction: Find the words, mark them and make sentences with the words.

Hints

The medicine , To cough , To hurt , The doctor , The rest , The symptoms

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Answers

Score: 0/6

Toser (To cough)
El medicamento (The medicine)
El descanso (The rest)
Doler (To hurt)
El doctor (The doctor)
Los síntomas (The symptoms)

Exercise 2: Reorder sentences

Instruction: The words in these sentences have been shuffled! Sort them so that they make a valid sentence again and translate.

Show translation
1. espalda. | la | duele | A | le | ella
A ella le duele la espalda.
(Her back hurts.)
2. durante | clase. | la | tosen | Ellos
Ellos tosen durante la clase.
(They cough during the class.)
3. a | comida. | la | ayudo | Yo | preparar
Yo ayudo a preparar la comida.
(I help to prepare the food.)

Exercise 3: Translate and make sentences

Instruction: Translate the words and phrases below and use it in a conversation or text.

1. A ella le duele la espalda.
Her back hurts.
2. Ellos tosen durante la clase.
They cough during the class.
3. Yo ayudo a preparar la comida.
I help to prepare the food.

Exercise 4: Translate and use in a sentence

Instruction: Translate and say the word out loud. Use the word in a sentence.

Show translation
1. Doler
(To hurt)
2. Ayudar
(To help)
3. El medicamento
(The medicine)
4. Los síntomas
(The symptoms)
5. Toser
(To cough)

Exercise 6: Adverbs of manner

Instruction: Choose the correct word, read the sentence out loud and translate.

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necesariamente, rápidamente, con dificultad, mal, con cuidado, bien, fácilmente, lentamente

1. Cuidado: Tengo que toser ....

Tengo que toser con cuidado.
(I have to cough carefully.)

2. Difícil: Me levanto ....

Me levanto con dificultad.
(I get up with difficulty.)

3. Necesario: La alergia se trata ....

La alergia se trata necesariamente.
(The allergy is necessarily treated.)

4. Lento: La fiebre baja ... después de tomar el medicamento.

La fiebre baja lentamente después de tomar el medicamento.
(The fever goes down slowly after taking the medicine.)

5. Malo: El enfermo se siente ... por la fiebre.

El enfermo se siente mal por la fiebre.
(The patient feels unwell due to the fever.)

6. Rápido: Los síntomas vienen ....

Los síntomas vienen rápidamente.
(The symptoms come quickly.)

7. Fácil: Me pongo enfermo ....

Me pongo enfermo fácilmente.
(I get ill easily.)

8. Bueno: Hoy me siento .... No estoy cansada.

Hoy me siento bien. No estoy cansada.
(Today I feel well. I am not tired.)

Exercise 7: Translate and make sentences

Instruction: Translate the words and phrases below and use it in a conversation or text.

1. I help to prepare the food.
Yo ayudo a preparar la comida.
2. They cough during the class.
Ellos tosen durante la clase.
3. Her back hurts.
A ella le duele la espalda.

Conversation exercise

Teaching guidelines +/- 10 minutes

  1. Describe los síntomas de cada persona (Describe the symptoms of each person)

Example phrases:

  1. La persona número uno tiene dolor en el cuello. (Person number one has pain in the neck.)
  2. ...
Spanish A1.30: Health and wellbeing

Appendix 1: Extended vocabulary table

Core vocabulary (12): Verbs: 3, Adjectives: 1, Nouns: 8,

Spanish English
Ayudar To help
Doler To hurt
El descanso The rest
El doctor The doctor
El medicamento The medicine
Enfermo Ill
La alergia The allergy
La fiebre The fever
La gripe The flu
La salud Health
Los síntomas The symptoms
Toser To cough

Appendix 2: Verb conjugation tables for this lesson

Doler (to hurt)

Exercises and examples phrases

  • le duele hurts