Lesson Plan, PPP plan

12 October Secondary School

Date: 06/06/2023 Subject: English

Grade: 9 Stream: 8

Unity: 5 MODERN AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINES Teacher: Danilo Paíba

Topic: Doctors vs. Traditional healers Duration: 45

Objectives: By the end of this lesson students should be able to:

 Identify the Advantages and Disadvantages of both healers

 Explain why do many people visit traditional healer at the weekends

 Use the Present perfect continuous

Language content Activities

Skills
Grammar fun Vocab Teacher Students

 greets the students  They answer the greets

Present Perfect Continuous Traditional
 presents the topic  Copy the topic
Sub + have/has healer;

Express present simple

 teaches vocabulary  listen carefully and take
Bitter;
+ been + verb + ing  Explains the structure of the present notes.
Bewitching

Listening
perfect Continuous.  Pay attention the
We have been trying to see ;
explanation and take note
what is better, traditional or Charlatan.
modern medicine but we can´t
really decide.

Gives the text to the Students Receive the text from teacher

Read
Read once Listening
Tells them to read Individually Stand Up and read
Tells them to get organized in group of 6 Get organized in group
Tells them to solve Exercise. Solve the exercise gave by
She ______ (to be) ill all week teacher in the exercise book

Writing
The doc _____ (look after) him since he
broke his leg. There´s water all over the
neighbourhood: It___ (rain) 4 long time
Correct possible mistakes.
 What is better.

Traditional Medicine?
Hi, my name is Jorge. I live in Vundi a. Vundi a is a neighbourhood in Moamba district, about 100 km from Maputo. Here we don’t have any
hospitals, the nearest one is about 40 km away, in Mahulana. When we get ill, we don’t need to travel all that distance. We see the traditional
healers in our neighbourhood.
I see many advantages to visiting local traditional healers. We don’t have to wait in queues to be assisted. Generally, we don’t pay for the
consultations. The remedies they give us are from nature: leaves, from water, herbs. We just pay a symbolic amount of money, so we feel okay.
Apart from not paying much money, we think that traditional medicine is advantageous because we use natural remedies. We believe that chemical
remedies, like the ones people are giving in hospitals, are harmful to humans. If you take those remedies, they cure the illness limited period of
time. After some years or months, the person gets ill again because of the effects of chemical remedies.
Have you ever seen someone with cancer in the rural areas? Have you ever seen someone with thrombosis in the rural areas? People get
this disease because of all the chemical remedies they take when visiting modern doctors.
At the hospital people have to queue for ages. And in the end, they don’t have enough money to get the remedies or the medicines are not
available at the pharmacies. That’s the reason many people who visit medical doctors also visit traditional healers in the rural areas. Over weekend
or at night, we see many people coming from cities to see traditional healers.
Modern Medicine?
Hello, my name is Carla. I live in Xai – Xai City, Gaza province.
Well, when I am ill, I go to hospital because there I will get medical assistance from well-trained health technicians, nurses or
medical doctors. Before they prescribe the medicine I should take, they do a clinical examination during which they do a physical
examination am suffering from when they give me instructions on how to take a medicines, they take into account my height, weight
and the kind of diet I should follow.
I don’t like traditional medicine because some traditional healers are charlatan. They can´t cure what they claim they can. They also don’t
worry too much about a person´s background history. They seem to be focussed on the money. Traditional medicine generally tastes bitter.
Traditional healers don’t take responsibility if the remedies they give us have side effects. It is difficult for us to demand
responsibility because they do not have a fixed address. They tend to move from one area to another. They also claim that they can
cure all kind of diseases and later they blame our ancestors or neighbourhood for bewitching us. These accusations are never
confirmed.