Unit 4: Asking and Showing Room in Hospital We have a lot of ward in the hospital, do you know it all? Learn to use some word to show the direction in the hospital.

1. Lecturer: Cheng Chan Mara

2.  Visitor/Patient: how to ask for direction
 How to give simple direction
 Showing a place or room

3.  Visitor/Patient: How to ask for direction
 Could you tell me how to get to …..?
 Can you tell me where … is?
 I’m looking for … How can I get there?
 Excuse me, can you tell me the way to …, please?
 How to give simple directions:
 Walk down …
 Go along this …
 Go upstairs …
 Until you find …
 Then turn right/left …
 First turn to the right then turn to the left.
 Turn right/left at the T junction.
 Turn right/left at the traffic light.

4.  Showing a place or room: It is …
 On the right/left side of …
 Next to …
 Near …
 At the opposite of …
 At the corner of …
 Just before …
 Across from …

6.  Make group of four
 Each group decides a place based on the map
above
 Tell the place one by one in front of the other
groups, and then let them guess the place
 The fastest group who raise their hands become the
group which has a chance to answer/guess it
 The winner is the group which has the highest
point
 Other groups take their turn
For example: From the Main Gate, go straight through car
park until you find an entrance. Then you turn
left. The room is a wide one.

7.  This is the site map of the first floor in a hospital

8.  This is the second floor in a hospital

9. Refer to the site map above, make a communication exchange
to show the direction!
The starting points are as follows:
1. The security to maternity unit
2. The nurse station in ICU to the canteen
3. The security to the toilet (between dispensary and radiology)
4. The emergency room to the lift
5. The polyclinic to the pediatric ward (on the 2nd floor)
6. The waiting room to the children playground (on the 2nd
floor)
7. The operation room to ICU (opposite the physiotherapy unit)
8. The entrance to the class 1
9. The nurse station (near the lift on 2nd floor) to the laboratory
10. The emergency room to admission.

10. Choose the correct option to complete the sentences!
1. Walk into / over / through the doors at the end of the
corridor.
2. Turn left / away / on after Pathology.
3. There’s a sign under / over / at the door.
4. It’s easiest to take the lift up to / on the top / into
Surgery.
5. The Pharmacy is the second door on / at / opposite
the right.
6. The car park is in front / inside / opposite the main
entrance.
7. Go straight at the bottom of / under / towards the
stairs.
8. Your ward is by / opposite / next to Physiotherapy.

11. Complete the sentences with the words from the
list!
1. The Pharmacy __________ medicines.
2. Take the __________ to get to the next floor.
3. Go along this __________ and through the
doors.
4. We use __________ for patients who can’t sit
up.
5. __________ is next to the main entrance.
6. Each bed produces 4.5 kilos of __________
each day.
7. Dead patients are taken to the __________.
8. Porters __________ heavy equipment.