Medical breakthroughs dominoes passives lesson
Medical English/ trivia/ passive voice
Instructions for teachers
Photocopy and cut out one set of dominoes per group of two to four students. Only cut down the sides and the very middle so each domino has the end of one sentence on the left and the start of a different sentence on the right, so don’t cut into individual boxes. Students work together to put all of the dominoes into a big circle and/ or deal the dominoes out to play a game with. They check as a class or with an un-cut-up copy of the worksheet, then are tested on the grammar with the gapfill on the last page below.
Cards to cut up/ Suggested answers
| produced by the freeing up of drug advertising in 1997. | In 2005, more than 390 million children under 5 were immunized | against polio. | More than 80 million doses of influenza |
| vaccine are produced annually in the USA. | More than 350 million people in the world are chronic carriers of Hepatitis | B. | 20.8 million Americans live with juvenile and |
| adult onset diabetes. | There are about 5.5. million stroke | survivors alive in the USA. | In the USA, more than 400,000 patients underwent knee and |
| hip replacements in 2005. | The vaccine for smallpox was | developed in 1796. | The malarial life cycle was |
| discovered in 1902. | Penicillin was first | tested in 1945. | The anti-depressant Lithium was approved by |
| the FDA in 1970. | Louis Pasteur treated his first rabies | patient in 1885. | The transmission of diseases by |
| bacteria was discovered in about 1880 by Koch. | In Europe in the Middle Ages barber- | surgeons were the commonest form of doctor, as they had the sharpest knives. | In developed countries only 50% of patients who suffer from chronic |
| diseases adhere to treatment recommendations. | Up to a third of prescriptions | written in the UK are never presented to a pharmacist for dispensing. | The first picture of plants being used as medicine is more that 13,000 |
| years old, in the cave paintings in Lascaux, France. | The FDA- (American) Food and Drug Administration was | founded in 1906 as part of the “Pure Food and Drug Act”. | In 1938 the FDA was first given |
| the power to pre-approve all new drugs. | In 1990 doctors accepting of “gifts of substantial value” was | banned by the FDA. Minor gifts are still allowed. | 60% of all new drugs come onto |
| the market in the USA before anywhere else in the world. | A large increase in drug sales in the USA was |
Passives presentation
Without looking at the dominoes, put the correct verb in the correct tense in each gap below.
- In 2005, more than 390 million children under 5 ______________________________ against polio
- More than 80 million doses of influenza vaccine ______________________________ annually in the USA
- More than 350 million people in the world ___________________________________ chronic carriers of Hepatitis B
- 20.8 million Americans ___________________ with juvenile and adult onset diabetes
- __________________________ about 5.5. million stroke survivors alive in the USA
- In the USA, more than 400,000 patients ___________________________________ knee and hip replacements in 2005
- The vaccine for smallpox ________________________________________ in 1796
- The malarial life cycle ___________________________________________ in 1902
- Penicillin _____________________first _____________________________ in 1945
- The anti-depressant Lithium _____________________________ by the FDA in 1970
- Louis Pasteur ________________________________ his first rabies patient in 1885
- The transmission of diseases by bacteria ___________________________________ in about 1880 by Koch
- In Europe in the Middle Ages barber- surgeons were the commonest form of doctor, as they _________________________________________________ the sharpest knives
- In developed countries only 50% of patients who suffer from chronic diseases ___________________________________________ to treatment recommendations
- Up to a third of prescriptions written in the UK _______________________________ never ______________________________________ to a pharmacist for dispensing
- The first picture of plants being __________________________________________ as medicine is more that 13,000 years old, in the cave paintings in Lascaux, France
- The FDA- (American) Food and Drug Administration __________________________ in 1906 as part of the “Pure Food and Drug Act”
- In 1938 the FDA ___________________________________________________ first ____________________________________ the power to pre-approve all new drugs
- In 1990 doctors accepting of “gifts of substantial value” ________________________ by the FDA. Minor gifts _______________________ still ______________________.
- 60% of all new drugs ___________________________________________________ onto the market in the USA before anywhere else in the world
- A large increase in drug sales in the USA ___________________________________ by the freeing up of drug advertising in 1997
Check as a class or with the suggested answers. Other verbs and tenses may be possible, so please check if you wrote something different.
Suggested answers
Other verbs and tenses may be possible, so please check if you wrote something different.
- In 2005, more than 390 million children under 5 were immunized against polio
- More than 80 million doses of influenza vaccine are produced annually in the USA
- More than 350 million people in the world are chronic carriers of Hepatitis B
- 20.8 million Americans live with juvenile and adult onset diabetes
- There are about 5.5. million stroke survivors alive in the USA
- In the USA, more than 400,000 patients underwent knee and hip replacements in 2005
- The vaccine for smallpox was developed in 1796
- The malarial life cycle was discovered in 1902
- Penicillin was first tested in 1945
- The anti-depressant Lithium was approved by the FDA in 1970
- Louis Pasteur treated his first rabies patient in 1885
- The transmission of diseases by bacteria was discovered in about 1880 by Koch
- In Europe in the Middle Ages barber- surgeons were the commonest form of doctor, as they had the sharpest knives
- In developed countries only 50% of patients who suffer from chronic diseases adhere to treatment recommendations
- Up to a third of prescriptions written in the UK are never presented to a pharmacist for dispensing
- The first picture of plants being used as medicine is more that 13,000 years old, in the cave paintings in Lascaux, France
- The FDA- (American) Food and Drug Administration was founded in 1906 as part of the “Pure Food and Drug Act”
- In 1938 the FDA was first given the power to pre-approve all new drugs
- In 1990 doctors accepting of “gifts of substantial value” was banned by the FDA. Minor gifts are still allowed.
- 60% of all new drugs come onto the market in the USA before anywhere else in the world
- A large increase in drug sales in the USA was produced by the freeing up of drug advertising in 1997
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