PAINS AND ILLNESSES

Thinking about illnesses and the difficultness that sometimes our kids encounter to express pain, I have selected some pages that our children can use to learn some vocabulary about this topic.

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/word-games/health-and-illness

https://agendaweb.org/vocabulary/health-illness-exercises.html

https://agendaweb.org/vocabulary/health-illness-intermediate-exercises.html

https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/search/illnesses

I have also created a list of the most frequent words and expressions (from my experience, of course). Get the PDF for free here: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cpJggQ_RuC7G8bIdEhMWQj6UIQRSlZBd/view?usp=drivesdk

Following my teacher instinct I remembered some folk tales that talk about sick people and that can be used in the classroom. Take these two examples: two wonderful versions Little Red Riding Hood:

A poem written by Ronald Dahl:

https://learn.stleonards.vic.edu.au/yr8literature/files/2012/07/Little-Red-Riding-Hood-and-the-Wolf-by-Roald-Dahl.pdf

And the politically correct version of Little Red Riding Hood (Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, by James Finn Garner)

http://wordyenglish.com/p/little_red_riding_hood_pc.html