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Your First Clinic Visit · Tutor Plan

The learner scans a practical FAQ page for specific information and distinguishes necessity, lack of necessity, and advice with must, have to, don’t have to, and should.

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Lesson aim

Evidence to collect

The learner scans a practical FAQ page for specific information and distinguishes necessity, lack of necessity, and advice with must, have to, don’t have to, and should.

Language lens

Necessary, not necessary, or a good idea

The clinic uses must and have to for things that are necessary, don’t have to for things that are not necessary, and should for advice. Don’t have to does not mean that something is wrong. It means the patient can choose.

Suggested sequence

Timing

  1. 3 min · Discuss first visits to a doctor or a new office.
  2. 3 min · Scan the bold questions, then read the answers for rules.
  3. 5 min · Complete comprehension, including the cancellation time question.
  4. 4 min · Sort sentences into necessary, not necessary, and advice.
  5. 2 min · Look at how the FAQ is organized.
  6. 4–5 min · Speak or write a short FAQ for a familiar place.

Anticipated problems

Watch and respond

  • The learner may think don’t have to means mustn’t. Contrast You don’t have to bring insurance with a real prohibition.
  • The learner may add to after must, for example You must to bring.
  • The learner may form questions as Do I must, so model Do I have to.

Short lesson

If time is limited

Scan the questions, answer comprehension questions one, two, and four, complete the first two language checks, and finish with three spoken rules.

Extended lesson

If the learner needs more

Role-play a phone call to the clinic. The learner asks three questions with Do I have to and Should I, and the tutor answers from the page.

Controlled practice

Answer key and teaching evidence

  1. weekday-morning · Walk-in patients can come every weekday from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m.
  2. not-required · Insurance is not necessary. Patients can see a doctor without it.
  3. form · New patients arrive early because they have to complete a short health form.
  4. call · Marta should call the clinic first so a nurse can ask her some questions.
  5. ask-booking · Patients tell the clinic their language when they make an appointment, and the interpreter is free.
  6. today-ten · Twenty-four hours before 10:00 a.m. tomorrow is 10:00 a.m. today.
  7. dont-have-to · Say You don’t have to have insurance.
  8. must-bring · Say You must bring a photo ID.
  9. should-arrive · Should arrive early is advice. Have to wait describes what is necessary.
  10. do-have-to · Ask Do I have to complete a form?

Review status

Tutor review required

This original reading and its generated pedagogy require tutor review and learner piloting before they can be described as formally reviewed.