Health, daily routines, healthy habits and preferences.

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Colombia has a great potential for medical tourism.

Tourist patients come from other countries to have
surgeries and at the same time to tour the country. You
will be involved in activities related to Client service
(tourist patient /user) to help you create a survey.
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OBJECTIVES:

To ask and give simple information related to students’ daily life, health and
study program.

To survey other students or teachers

To involve students in customer service tasks, Surveying, for instance.

GENERAL COMPETENCE

The student can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring simple and
direct exchange of information on familiar topics and activities and can
handle very short social exchanges, even though he/she cannot usually
understand enough to keep the conversation going on by himself.

INTRODUCTION

One of the language and social functions as a Health Technologist / Technician, is

enquiring and interviewing a Health Services user about items such as his or her
personal info, medical record(s), health status and the purpose of the visit and use
of such services.

TASK

You will design a survey for health services users to collect reliable and true
information about users’ health habits, routines and preferences, this survey must
be applied in a specific group of users.

PROCESS

Client service providers has to deal with many information and users. You will have
to develop some tasks which are compulsory to achieve your final product. These
tasks should be solved with your group and each one of you has to participate. To
do so you can bring your own English books, dictionaries, computers, etc.
SURVEYING

1. Look at the images or flash cards and with your partners relate the images to a topic.
http://www.mes-english.com/flashcards/files/dailyroutines1_flash.pdf
2. Check the activities you see in the images from the list below.

3. Now answer: what do you do daily? In the morning

I wake up at 7 o’ c lock
I take a shower
__________________________________________________________ 6 - 12
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In the afternoon 12 - 18
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In the evening
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At night
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4. With your group review the grammar chart and complete it

 QUESTION FORM

AUXILIARY PERSONAL VERB IN BASE FORM + QUESTION

CONJUGATED PRONOUNS MARK

Do I Study?

Do study?

He ?

Does She study?

Does study?

Do We study?

5. In groups, make 5 yes/ no questions about your partners’ daily routine (you can use actions in
point 2) and practice them together.

Do you brush your teeth in the morning?

Yes, I do.

No, I don’t. I brush my teeth in the afternoon.

Yes / no questions Short and long answers

Your parners’ names
VERB-BASED VOCABULARY

4. Please hunt the verbs contained in the puzzle provided and propose a definition for them in
your own words (you may use Spanish as the defining language only for this step):
Now that you know how to build up questions, you are ready to make the survey. Follow these
indications:

1. Choose your group (maximum 4 people).

2. Choose a subject.

You should survey other SENA learners and SENA Instructors. Choose a subject related to health
and to your study program that help you determine How our SENA community life style is.

You are free to choose the subject! These are examples.

 Sports

 Healthy Habits

 Daily routines

 Eating Habits

 Common Ilnesses

 Likes and dislikes (Related to Health)

2. Make 10 Multiple or Yes/ No– like questions.

3. create a form. You can use pictures to help people understand the questions.

4. Choose with your teacher the population you want to survey.

5. With the help of your teacher correct the survey you made and then, procide to survey the
chosen population (10 people).

6. You have to make a tabulation to share with your class.

WHILE SURVEYING

Remember you cannot speak spanish. You should make you understand somehow by gestures or
using other words you don’t have in your survey form.

If your teacher is not with you: You can record your survey to prove you have done it without
using spanish, even if the people you are surveying use it.
Don’t worry if you don’t pronounce perfectly. That’s something you can improve gradually.

AFTER SURVEYING:

You have to socialize with your classmates the tabulation you made. You should prepare your
presentation before with the help of your teacher.

Your project will be published at our blog!

Good luck! You will certainly do a great job!

Tick in column 1, those items you consider are your capabilities and in column 2, those
you think you haven’t achieved but you set them as objectives.

My capabilities My objectives

I’m able to use common and simple formulas of social

interaction such as “good morning”, “thank you”,
“excuse me”, “bye”

I’m able to ask and give simple personal information

(name, age, study program, etc)

I can ask and answer simple information about my

habits, routine and preferences related to my daily life

I can ask and answer information about simple topics

related to my life, health and study program

I’m able to use some time expressions such us “every

day, frequently, every two months, twice a week,
always, etc.”

I can use gestures or find out ways to explain ideas I

want to say or ask to my interlocutor without using
Spanish