Famous Things

The World Health

Organization
Vocabulary Preview
Match the words with the correct images.

1. health

2. physical

3. mental

4. world

5. doctor

6. scientist

7. disease

8. vaccine

b
c d
a

g
e h

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Reading
1. The World Health Organization (WHO) is part of the
United Nations (UN). The WHO specializes in public health.
This includes physical and mental health of people all over
the world.

2. The World Health Organization began its work on April 7, 1948. Today,
the WHO has 7,000+ workers. This includes doctors, scientists, and
public health specialists from 150 nations. The WHO’s main offices are
in Geneva, Switzerland.

3. The WHO helps nations improve their health-care systems. It teaches

us about diseases such as AIDS and COVID-19. WHO specialists also do
important research for new vaccines.

4. World Health Day is on April 7. How is your physical and mental health
this year? Do you have a healthy lifestyle?

Writing
Look for each topic in the reading. Copy the sentence.

1. United Nations 3. COVID-19

2. Geneva, Switzerland 4. World Health Day

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Comprehension
A. True or False?

Are these sentences true or false?

Write T if the answer is true and F if the answer is false.

1. WHO stands for World Health Organization.

2. UN stands for United States.

3. World Health Day is on August 7.

4. COVID-19 and AIDS are diseases.

5. WHO specialists do important research.

B. Multiple-Choice

Circle the correct answer.

1. Your health is important. 4. This disease spread all over the .

Keep your brain active.
a) world
a) mental b) physical
b) physical
5. Your is more important than your work.
2. My specializes in childhood diseases.
a) health
a) doctor b) healthy
b) physical
6. The are doing some research.
3. We need a for COVID-19.
a) scientists
a) disease b) science
b) vaccine

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Vocabulary Review
A. Look at the Pictures

Circle the sentence that best describes the picture.

a) She is a scientist.

b) She is a doctor.
1.
c) She is a patient.

d) She is a librarian.

a) COVID-19 is a disease.

b) She works for the WHO.

2.
c) This is a vaccine.

d) It is a big world.

a) This is the WHO.

b) The world has many nations.

3.
c) This is the United Nations.

d) It is World Health Day.

a) Physical health is the health of your body.

b) Mental health is the health of your brain.

4.
c) Mental health is not important.

d) Physical health is important.

a) We need a disease.

b) We need a vaccine.
5.
c) We are healthy.

d) We are specialists.

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Vocabulary Review cont.

B. Listen & Spell

Listen to your teacher say each word. Complete the word.

1. heal 5. physic

2. wo 6. men

3. doc 7. vacci

4. ease 8. scient

C. Noun or Adjective?

Look at the words from the reading. Are they nouns or adjectives?

noun 1. doctor

2. healthy

3. scientist

4. health

5. important

6. vaccine

adjective 7. physical

8. mental

9. specialist

10. worker

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Listening
A. Gap Fill

Listen to a recording of this reading.

Fill in the blanks. Listen again and check your answers.

1. The World Health Organization (WHO) is part of the United Nations (UN).
The WHO specializes in public . This includes physical
and health of people all over the world.

2. The World Health Organization began its work on

April 7, 1948. Today, the WHO has 7,000+ workers. This
includes , , and
public health specialists from 150 nations. The WHO’s main offices are in
Geneva, Switzerland.

3. The WHO helps nations improve their health-care systems. It teaches us

about such as AIDS and COVID-19. WHO specialists
also do research for new vaccines.

4. World Health Day is on April 7. How is your and

mental health this year? Do you have a lifestyle?

B. Extra Practice

Can you spot the plural nouns? Listen to the recording again.
Make a list of all the plural nouns that end in -s.

• Nations

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Answer Key
LESSON DESCRIPTION: LEVEL: Beg

In this lesson, students read about the UN organization that TIME: 1–2 hours
specializes in public health. This lesson includes a reading and
TAGS: W HO, World Health Organization, health, UN, pandemic,
comprehension check as well as a vocabulary review and
COVID-19, coronavirus
listening practice.

Vocabulary Review Vocabulary Review

1. e 3. a 5. b 7. f A. LOOK AT THE PICTURES

2. d 4. h 6. g 8. c
1. a 2. a 3. d 4. b 5. b

Reading B. LISTEN & SPELL

Read the words out for your students. Have them try to complete
Have students read individually and circle words they don’t
the words with the correct spelling.
understand. Then read together as a class. Audio is also available.
1. health 5. physical
2. world 6. mental
Writing 3. doctor 7. vaccine
4. disease 8. scientist
Have students read the text again and copy a sentence that goes
with each topic. C. NOUN OR ADJECTIVE?

1. The World Health Organization (WHO) is part of the Give you students some practice looking at words in context in
United Nations (UN). order to determine the part of speech.
2. The WHO’s main offices are in Geneva, Switzerland.
3. It teaches us about diseases such as AIDS and COVID-19. 1. noun 6. noun

4. World Health Day is on April 7. 2. adjective 7. adjective

3. noun 8. adjective
4. noun 9. noun
Comprehension 5. adjective 10. noun

A. TRUE OR FALSE? (continued on the next page...)

1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. T

B. MULTIPLE-CHOICE

1. a 2. a 3. b 4. a 5. a 6. a

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Answer Key cont.

Listening

A. GAP FILL

Play the recording a few times. Have students fill in the blanks as
they listen. You may want to let your students use the word list
from page 1.

1. health, mental 3. diseases, important

2. doctors, scientists 4. physical, healthy

B. EXTR A PR ACTICE

Have students listen for plural nouns ending in -s.

Paragraph 1: Nations
Paragraph 2: w
 orkers, doctors, scientists, specialists,
nations, offices
Paragraph 3: nations, systems, diseases, AIDS, specialists, vaccines

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