Good evening! Here we have a Glogster about the Black Plague, Cholera and Ebola Virus. The images and sounds can be used as warm ups, the video, attachment and link for production and the texts as presentation! I hope you like it!

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For today we have a storybird!

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The emancipation of Carmilla by verogarciacastro on Storybird

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Hello! Today we have a complete lesson! Through the use of vokis, we can learn about a new disease! Follow the vokis, and get some ideas for your classroom! First And here we have the pictures!

The second voki presents the topic! The third one refers to causes and recommendations The fourth helps us to practice the vocabulary. The last voki recommends useful tasks!

Useful Websites

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Here you have some useful websites that can help you improve your understanding and knowledge of illnesses, diseases and epidemics!


365 ESL Short Stories http://www.eslfast.com/  has a short story called "Influenza". You can listen and read the story at the same time, which will help you both with your oral and reading skills.

VOA Voice of America  http://learningenglish.voanews.com  includes a very interesting article about Diseases in Refugee Camps. In the article you can learn about some diseases that spread in refugee camps, and you can also listen to it. This article can help you with your oral and reading skills.

Focus English http://focusenglish.com/index.html provides real life situations and dialogues when speaking in English. Go to the section "Every Day English in conversation” and choose the option "Health". There you can listen to dialogues related to common diseases. You can use the expressions in the dialogues when talking about the diseases and thus improve your oral skills.

Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com offers complete tasks for learning about the Flu. In the main page, go to searcher and type "Flu". The first result contains a reading and a glossary of Flu-related terms, which are very complete. You can write sentences with the words from the glossary in order to work on your writing skills and understanding of the words.

I hope these websites will help you improve your English skills as well as your knowledge about the topic!

Common Illnesses

 List of some common Illnesses 

Abdominal Pain

Allergies
Asthma
Bronchitis
Chicken Pox
Common Cold
Diarreah
Ear Infections
Fevers
Headache
Influenza
Measles
Meningitis
Migraines
Pneumonia
Rashes
Sinusitis
Stomachache 
Sore Throat 
Viral Infections
Vomiting

The following is a short video about epidemics. We can use it as a warm up for the topic. 

Epidemics!

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In this blog we will learn about common diseases, new illnesses and epidemics.
Please feel free to post any comments and information about the topics mentioned above.