Language Learning for Health: Instructor Notes, Lesson Plans, Assessments

Ottawa Public Health and Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. — Ottawa, 2014. — 45 p.Language Learning for Health integrates health content into language instruction. This book is a series of 24 lesson plans The lessons are based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLBs) which is a descriptive scale of language ability. Each topic includes a lesson plan at each of the following levels: ESL Literacy-CLB 1, CLB 2-3, and CLB 4-5.Each lesson plan has been designed following the same template and includes instructor notes, a variety of easy to use activities, assessment tasks, and a self-reflection task.
The Instructor Notes at the beginning of the lesson plans provide guidelines and suggestions on how to use them.
Each activity has been designed to focus on a particular skill area of listening, speaking, reading or writing and on certain competency areas. The activities are ready to use, which may minimize the time instructors need to prepare engaging sessions. Some of the worksheets (e.g., cards, game boards) can be laminated and re-used. The activities are interactive and encourage learning through participation and dialogue.
The assessments have been designed as a way to gauge learning from the lesson plan and may be used as a Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PLBA) tasks.
The learner self-reflection task captures a learner’s intention to adopt a desirable practice as a result of the knowledge acquired.