Medical vocabulary with articles definitions game
determiners/ medical English/ defining relative clauses/ countable and uncountable
The definitions game
A student takes one card and tries to define one of the words on it. The person or people who are listening have to guess the word, including the right article and right grammatical form (singular/ uncountable or plural). If they get stuck, the person describing can give the article and first letter.
Choose your poison
The person listening can choose which letter and article they want (without seeing the worksheet) and the person speaking tries to define that word. In this version, the person guessing only has one chance. If they choose an article and letter combination which doesn’t exist on the cards, they can change either the letter or the article (not both) until they get to one that exists.
| Useful phrases for defining the vocabulary It’s a thing that/ which… It’s stuff that/ which… It’s a person who… They are things that… It’s the thing that/ which… |
| An ankle Antiseptic An anaesthetist Antibiotics – – | A bladder Back pain A blood donor Biceps A bathroom The brain | A cell Chemotherapy A chemist Cataracts A chemist’s The chest |
| A diet Dizziness A doctor Drugs A drugstore The diaphragm | An exam Eczema An epidemiologist Eyelids An exit The entrance | A fever Fever A faith healer Feet – The face |
| A gene Gum disease A GP Germs A geriatric ward The groin | A heart attack Hay fever A head nurse Herbal cures A health centre The heart | An injection Indigestion An inpatient Intestines An ICU The inside |
| A jerk Jet lag A junior doctor Joints A jacuzzi The jaw | A knee injury – – Kidney stones A kitchen – | A lobotomy Lotion A lab assistant Lungs – The liver |
| An MRI (scan) Medication A midwife Medicines A morgue The mouth | A needle Nausea A nurse Nerves A nursing home The nose | An operation Ointment An outpatient Ovaries – The outside |
| A painkiller Pneumonia A physician Period pains A private clinic The pill | A reaction Radiotherapy A radiologist Ribs Reception – | A stethoscope Sweat A surgeon Side effects An STD clinic The spine |
| A tumour Tiredness A technician Teeth The toilet The throat | An ultrasound Urine A urologist Underpants – The uterus | A virus – – Varicose veins – The vagina |
| A wheelchair Weight loss – Wisdom teeth A ward The waist | An X ray – – X chromosomes The X ray room – | – – – Y chromosomes – – |
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