Medical English- Present Progressive Mimes

Medical Present Continuous mimes

with synonyms for medical words

Choose lines from below and act them out until your partner guesses what you are doing. You can’t make any sound, but you can use things in the class to help you make actions if you like. If your partner still can’t guess, let them look at the list below.

Ask about any lines which you can’t understand, acting them out each time to show that you understand the explanations.

Medical synonyms presentation and practice

Find at least three examples of synonyms with different levels of formality, e.g. an everyday word and a real medical term for the same thing.

Test each other on the synonyms on the same lines below:

• Say two things from the same line or from two different lines and see if your partner can say if they are synonyms or not
• Say all but one thing on one line and see if your partner can say the missing synonym
• Choose a line with at least three synonyms, say one of them, and help your partner make all of the other expressions with the same meaning

Medical present progressive sentences to mime and guess

• You are bandaging (someone/ yourself).
• You are being sick/ vomiting/ throwing up/ barfing/ chucking up/ hurling/ spewing (up)/ regurgitating.
• You are blinking.
• You are blowing your nose.
• You are breathing (heavily)/ panting/ feeling out of breath.
• You are brushing off your dandruff.
• You are burping/ belching.
• You are carrying a stretcher.
• You are choking.
• You are coughing.
• You are fainting/ passing out/ losing consciousness/ swooning.
• You are falling.
• You are farting/ blowing off/ letting off wind/ breaking wind/ passing wind.
• You are feeling dizzy/ You are feeling like the earth is spinning.
• You are feeling sick./ You are feeling nauseous.
• You are feeling tired/ You are feeling lethargic.
• You are having a face lift./ You are having plastic surgery on your face.
• You are having an operation/ having something out/ undergoing surgery.
• You are hiccupping.
• You are injecting (someone/ yourself)/ having an injection/ having a jab.
• You are limping.
• You are listening to someone’s heart (beat)./ You are using a stethoscope.
• You are putting on a (sticking) plaster./ You are putting on a Band Aid.
• You are scratching your head.
• You are shivering./ You are shaking.
• You are slipping.
• You are sneezing.
• You are spitting./ You are gobbing.
• You are squeezing a (teenage) spot./ You are squeezing your acne.
• You are taking a tablet./ You are swallowing a pill.
• You are taking off a (sticking) plaster./ You are taking off a Band Aid.
• You are taking someone’s pulse.
• You are taking someone’s temperature.
• You are tripping.
• You are using an (asthma) inhaler./ You are using a puffer.
• You are walking with crutches.
• Your (lower) back is hurting.
• Your cheek is twitching.
• Your eyes are watering.
• Your knee is swelling.
• Your leg is hurting.
• Your nose is bleeding.
• Your nose is itching.
• Your stomach is hurting./ Your abdomen is hurting./ Your tummy is hurting./ Your belly is hurting.