🇬🇧 🚨 Emergencies · Greetings and self-introductions (A1)

🤒 Feeling sick while traveling

🎯 Ask for help and explain basic health problems

Use the usual 50-minute plan: warm-up → key phrases → challenges → role-play → discussion → wrap-up. Share this page on Zoom so the student can see the phrases, but keep "Your card" to yourself.

💬 Warm-up questions

Have you ever been sick on a trip?
What's in your travel first-aid kit?

🔑 Key phrases

I don't feel well.気分が悪いです。
I need a doctor.医者が必要です。
Please call an ambulance.救急車を呼んでください。
I feel dizzy.めまいがします。
Where is the nearest hospital?一番近い病院はどこですか？
I have travel insurance.旅行保険に入っています。

📚 Useful words

ambulance — 救急車
emergency — 緊急
hospital — 病院
pain — 痛み
throw up — 吐く
allergy — アレルギー

⚡ Speaking challenges

Say 'help' in 3 situations.
Describe how you feel when you have the flu.
Ask for the nearest hospital and how to get there.
Explain an allergy clearly.

🎭 Role-play

A hotel lobby in Thailand. The student suddenly feels very sick.

🧑‍🎓 Student's card

Tell the receptionist you feel sick, explain symptoms and ask for a hospital.

🧑‍🏫 Your card (tutor)

Be the receptionist: ask simple questions, offer to call a taxi or ambulance.

🌀 Twist (halfway through): The receptionist only understands simple English. The student must simplify.

🗣️ Discussion questions

What's the emergency number in Japan? In the US?
Do you always get travel insurance?
What would you do if a friend fainted?

📌 Homework

Write an emergency card in English: blood type, allergies, contact英語で緊急カード（血液型・アレルギー・連絡先）を作る