Skills Focus:   Listening

Language Focus:   First Aid

Game:   Casualty Challenge

Help your learners practise their listening skills in the computer room with this BBC Skillswise words game based on the UK TV Programme “Casualty”.

Preparation

Make sure that there are enough computers and headphones for your learners and that the game is either ready for them to start or that you can successfully guide them to the website.

Pre- Playing

Dictate the following questions in chunks ‘/’ and as naturally as possible:

1) What kind of things/ does a paramedic/ have to do/ at the scene of an accident?

2) On arrival at the hospital/ how does a doctor/ take over?

3) How might the nurses/ help get the patient/ back into shape?

Learners discuss the questions and feedback before playing the games.

Play

Learners listen to the descriptions of first aid proceedure for a paramedic,  a doctor and a nurse and then move pictures of the proceedures they have just listened to into the correct order.  They have three chances.  If your learners are extra keen then get them to note down any difficult language.

Post Play

In class ask them how they did, if they have any questions about the language, what they remember and what they have learnt from playing the game.