Health and social care
JOBS AND TOOLS
VG1/VG2
COMPETENCE AIMS
understand and use a wide general
vocabulary and an academic vocabulary
related to his/her own education programme
 express him/herself in writing and orally in a
varied, differentiated and precise manner,
with good progression and coherence
(optional)
 assess and comment on his/her progress in
learning English (optional)
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students will:
 Learn, understand and use words related
to jobs in Social and Health Care
 (optional) learn the elements of short story
 (optional) learn how to write a short story
 (optional) learn how to self-evaluate own
progress in learning English words/short
story elements
THE CARING PROFESSIONS
A REGISTERED NURSE (R.N.)
a nurse who has formally trained and passed an exam and is officially
qualified to perform all nursing duties
A MIDWIFE
a person, usually a woman, who is trained to help women when
they are giving birth
A HEALTH VISITOR
a person employed to give advice to people, especially
older people and the parents of very young children,
about health care, sometimes by visiting them in their
own homes
A NURSING ASSISTANT
Sometimes called nursing aids.Nursing assistants have a great deal of
contact with patients and provide personal care such as bathing, feeding,
and dressing. They also perform support functions such as transporting
patients, taking vital signs, making beds, helping patients become
ambulatory, and answering patient calls.
A HOME CARE ASSISTANT
Visit patients in their homes and help them with their personal care
needs and domestic chores. Tasks include dressing, washing, taking
people to the toilet and assistance with eating and drinking, plus help
with laundry, food preparation, shopping, cleaning and payment of bills.
A CHIROPODIST
a person whose job is to treat problems
and diseases of people's feet
A PHYSIOTHERAPIST
Someone who treats people using physiotherapy (the treatment of
muscle stiffness, pain and injury, especially by rubbing and moving the
sore parts)
A GENERAL PRACTITIONER (GP)
the work of a GP (= doctor) who treats the people who
live in the local area and treats injuries and diseases
that do not need a hospital visit
A PHARMACIST
a person who is trained to prepare medicines and who works in a hospital
or shop
A CHIROPRACTOR
a person whose job is to treat diseases by pressing a
person's joints (= places where two bones are
connected), especially those in the back
A PSYCHOLOGIST
someone who studies the human mind and human emotions and
behaviour, and how different situations have an effect on them
A HOSPITAL ORDERLY
Hospital orderlies assist medical staff, and transport
patients, medical equipment and supplies to and
from wards and departments in hospitals.
AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
a way of treating mentally or physically ill people by getting them
to do special activities
ACTIVITIES
1. Write a short story «A day at work».
Include:
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Setting (when and where the story takes place, f.e. hospital,
nursing home or other)
Characterization (your main character should have one of the
jobs you have just learned about. Include the description of
duties your main character discharges/performs at work every
day )
Plot (sequence of events)
Climax (the problem your main character faces in the story)
Resolution (how your main character solves the problem)
Use Story Organizers bellow to plan your story
ACTIVITIES
2. Prepare and act out a role play
3. Students make up sitiuations «Who do I need?»
F.e. I need to get some medicine using
prescription Who do I need?
4. «Who am I?» riddle activity
F.e. I am a person who gives advice to people,
especially older people and the parents of very young
children, about health care, sometimes by visiting them
in their own homes. Who am I?
SOURCES
http://www.lgcareers.com/careers-az/homecare-assistant/
 www.cambridge.org
 Textbook «Tracks 1» (Helse- og sosialfag)
pp.222-224
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