This document is one of nine modules that make up “Health Talk: A Health Literacy Curriculum for English Language Learners,” developed by the Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association (CIWA).

In this module, the authors provide a variety of exercises and activities to help learners ask questions, seek clarifications and answer questions likely to be asked by doctors.

The curriculum is aimed at ESL learners with low literacy skills and the authors have included suggestions for working with such learners.

Sample lesson plans include an estimate of the time required as well as the targeted Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) level of the material. The module includes lesson plans ranging from pre-benchmark to CLB 2.