A day at the animal clinic

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: a vet's dayListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9What does it mean?Grammar exercise
10. 10Find have toGrammar exercise
11. 11have toGrammar rule
12. 12Rules at the clinicGrammar exercise
13. 13Say it right: have toSpeaking practice
14. 14What is my job?Speaking practice
15. 15Let's discussDiscussion
16. 16Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: have toGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: a job I would likeDiscussion

Words

• veterinarian/ˌvetərɪˈneriən/

  a doctor for animals (short form: vet)

• clinic/ˈklɪnɪk/

  a small hospital, often for one kind of care

• emergency/iˈmɜːrdʒənsi/

  a dangerous situation that needs help right now

• checkup/ˈtʃekʌp/

  a visit to make sure that a person or an animal is healthy

• shot/ʃɑːt/

  medicine that a doctor or a nurse puts into your body with a needle

• medicine/ˈmedɪsn/

  something you take when you are sick, so you get better

• patient/ˈpeɪʃnt/

  a person or an animal that a doctor takes care of

• treat/triːt/

  to try to make a sick person or animal better

• scratch/skrætʃ/

  to hurt someone's skin with sharp nails

• cage/keɪdʒ/

  a box with metal bars for keeping an animal

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about animals.

1. Do you have a pet? Tell me about it.
2. Is it expensive to keep a pet in your country?
3. Which animals make the best pets, in your opinion?

Grammar rule

have to

have to / has to + the base form = it is necessary

	Example
Positive	Vets have to pass an exam. A vet has to know a lot.
Negative	She doesn't have to wear a suit. (= it isn't necessary; she can choose)
Question	Do vets have to work at night? — Yes, they do. / No, they don't.
Past	We had to give him medicine.

I, you, we, they → have to · he, she, it → has to · Questions and negatives use do / does / don't / doesn't, like other verbs.

Remember: don't have to means it isn't necessary. It does not mean "don't do it!" You will learn more, with must not and can't, in the grammar lesson.