The Human Body
This is an upper-intermediate worksheet about the human body. Upper-intermediate students are very familiar with basic body part names, but are often missing more specific vocabulary, such as the words for organs and joints. This worksheet focuses on this language, and contains speaking, reading, and listening components. It would be particularly useful for any students in the medical field or any students whose jobs involve anatomy, but will also be useful for a general English class.
The lesson starts with some general warm up questions, and then asks the class to match a series of organs (lungs, kidneys, etc) to pictures. After this they will read through a series of 3 statements about each organ, and must decide with a partner. Two of the statements are true, and one is false, and the students must decide with a partner which is which.
After this students will look at a picture of a skeleton and match words to various bones and joints (hips, spine, etc), and then ask and answer a series of questions with a partner.
After this the students will listen to two doctors discussing a patient who had a bad accident and answer some comprehension questions about the accident. The conversation uses a lot of the vocabulary the students have learned so far, such as ‘skull’ and ‘lungs.’
The final exercise is a game of taboo in which students must practice describing body parts to their team without using the actual name of the body part.
The transcript for the listening section can be found at the end of the Teacher’s Version (TV).
