10B  What can I do for you?
Vocabulary: feeling ill
Patient A
You have these health problems:
C  a bad cold
A  a fever D  a cough
B  a sore throat E  a rash
Decide how long you’ve had all your problems.
You also cut yourself! (You decide what happened.)
You saw your doctor about the fever and cough
last week. He/She told you to stay in bed and keep
warm, but didn’t give you anything to take. Now
you are going to see him/her again. Tell the doctor
about your problems one at a time.
Patient B
You have these health problems:
A  an earache C  a headache
B  your arm hurts D  a stomachache
Decide how long you’ve had all your problems.
You also burnt yourself this morning! (You decide
how and where you burnt yourself.)
You think you are very ill and want the doctor to
send you to hospital (or at least give you a letter
saying that you don’t have to go to work
tomorrow!). Tell the doctor about your problems
one at a time.
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Doctor A
This patient came to see you last week with a
temperature and a bad cold. You told him/her to
stay in bed and keep warm, but didn’t give him/her
anything to take. Now the patient is back and
doesn’t look very well!
Look back at exercise 3b in the Students’ Book
on page 89 and try to remember all the different
treatments and advice you can give.
USEFUL LANGUAGE
Hello, what can I do for you?
When did these symptoms start?
Have you taken anything for it?
You should …
You must …
Don’t …
Doctor B
This patient has been to see you quite often.
Sometimes he/she has real health problems, but
sometimes you think the patient is telling lies so
that he/she doesn’t have to go to work!
You cannot tell the patient that you think he/she is
lying, but you must ask lots of questions about the
illnesses to make sure that they are real.
Look back at exercise 3b in the Students’ Book on
page 89 and try to remember all the different
treatments and advice you can give.
USEFUL LANGUAGE
Hello, what can I do for you?
When did these symptoms start?
Have you taken anything for it?
You should …
You must …
Don’t …
 10B  What can I do for you?
Instructions
You will need: one set of role cards for each pair of students

• Put students into pairs. Give one student a copy of the Patient A
role card and the other a copy of the Doctor A role card. Allow a
few minutes for students to prepare their roles. (Most of the
vocabulary used in this activity is taken from the Vocabulary section
on pages 88–89 of the Students’ Book.)
• Students act out the role-play in their pairs. If there is space in the
classroom, rearrange the chairs so that students are facing each
other, with room for the doctor and patient to stand up if they wish.
• When each pair finishes, give the Doctor B role card to the student
who was the patient in the first role-play, and the Patient B role card
to the student who was the doctor. Again, allow a few minutes for
them to prepare. Students then act out the second role-play in
their pairs.
• Finally, students report back to the whole class on the advice/
treatment their doctor gave them.

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