Learn English From Chinese - Medicine

1. Medications
Medications, side effects, vocabulary

2. Medications
 Names: medicine, medicines,
medications, drugs, pills, tablets,
syrups, creams, sprays
 Medications help sick people feel
better.

3. Medications
 What do we need first before we
can get medication?

4. Medications
 What do we need first before we
can get medication?
Prescription (the paper that says what
medication to buy)

5. Medications
 Who gives us the prescription?

6. Medications
 Who gives us the prescription?
Doctor

7. Medications
 Where do we take the prescription?

8. Medications
 Where do we take the prescription?
Pharmacy (the place where you buy
medicines)

9. Medications
 Who gives us the medicine at the
pharmacy?

10. Medications
 Who gives us the medicine at the
pharmacy?
Pharmacist (the person who works
with medicine at a pharmacy)

11. Medications
 A doctor gives us a prescription
 We take the prescription to a pharmacy
 The pharmacist fills the prescription (this means
gives the patient medicine)

12. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription
Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill

13. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name of medicine
Pharmacy
Pharmacist
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill

14. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill

15. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and gives you
medicine
Dose/dosage
Side effects
Refill

16. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and gives you
medicine
Dose/dosage – how much medicine you should take and when
Side effects
Refill

17. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and gives you
medicine
Dose/dosage – how much medicine you should take and when
Side effects – the bad problems that happen when you take medicine
Refill

18. Medications
Important vocabulary for pharmacy and medications:
Prescription – the paper from the doctor with the name of medicine
Pharmacy – the place where you get medication
Pharmacist – the person who works at a pharmacy and gives you
medicine
Dose/dosage – how much medicine you should take and when
Side effects – the bad problems that happen when you take medicine
Refill – to get more medicine because you finished all the pills

19. Medications
The doctor gave me a _________ for a new drug today.

20. Medications
The doctor gave me a prescription for a new drug today.

21. Medications
The _________ for this medication is one pill every five
hours.

22. Medications
The dose/dosage for this medication is one pill every five
hours.
(Remember overdose is the emergency that means a
person took too much medication. Over means too much,
dose means how much and when to take medicine.)

23. Medications
One ________________ of this medication is nausea.

24. Medications
One side effect of this medication is nausea.

25. Medications
The pharmacist __________ my prescription.

26. Medications
The pharmacist fills my prescription.

27. Medications
I take my prescription to the _________ to get it filled.

28. Medications
I take my prescription to the pharmacy to get it filled.

29. Medications
I finished my medication, so I need a __________.

30. Medications
I finished my medication, so I need a refill.
(We can also say “refill” when we want more to drink at
breakfast, lunch and dinner. “I want a refill of tea. Please
refill my tea.”)

31. Medications
Over the Counter (OTC)
Over the counter medicine means you don’t need a
prescription to use it.
What types of sicknesses can use OTC medicines?

32. Medications
What are some side effects to medications? Talk to your
partner and think of as many side effects as you can.

33. Medications
Common side effects:
Dizziness
Nausea
Vomiting
Headache
Drowsiness
Dry mouth
Skin rash
Blood pressure change
Hair growth, hair loss
Anxiety
Serious side effects:
Stroke
Heart attack
Depression
Blood clot
Internal bleeding
Suicidal thoughts
Death

34. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix
Label
Directions
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients

35. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label
Directions
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients

36. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients

37. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about
information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings
Generic
Ingredients

38. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings – the part of the label that talks about side effects and
bad things
Generic
Ingredients

39. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings – the part of the label that talks about side effects and
bad things
Generic – the cheap kind of medicine
Ingredients

40. Medications
More vocabulary about medicine:
Cure, heal, fix – make a patient better, not sick anymore
Label – the paper on the medicine that talks about information
Directions – the part of the label that tells the dose
Warnings – the part of the label that talks about side effects and
bad things
Generic – the cheap kind of medicine
Ingredients – many things that make one medicine

41. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
________ to learn more about the medicine. I am looking
for the dose, so I am reading the __________. I bought
the ________ medicine and not the expensive one. One
__________ for this medication is that I should not drive
a car when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me. I
hope this medicine _______ me because I don’t want to
be sick anymore!

42. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking for
the dose, so I am reading the __________. I bought the
________ medicine and not the expensive one. One
__________ for this medication is that I should not drive
a car when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me. I
hope this medicine _______ me because I don’t want to
be sick anymore!

43. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking for
the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought the
________ medicine and not the expensive one. One
__________ for this medication is that I should not drive
a car when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me. I
hope this medicine _______ me because I don’t want to
be sick anymore!

44. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking for
the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought the
generic medicine and not the expensive one. One
__________ for this medication is that I should not drive
a car when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me. I
hope this medicine _______ me because I don’t want to
be sick anymore!

45. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking for
the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought the
generic medicine and not the expensive one. One
warning for this medication is that I should not drive a car
when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me. I hope
this medicine _______ me because I don’t want to be
sick anymore!

46. Medications
My doctor gave me a new medication. I am reading the
label to learn more about the medicine. I am looking for
the dose, so I am reading the directions. I bought the
generic medicine and not the expensive one. One
warning for this medication is that I should not drive a car
when I take it. It will be bad and dangerous for me. I hope
this medicine cures me because I don’t want to be sick
anymore!

47. Relief – this
means to
feel better
Non-drowsy
–
will not
make you
tired

48. What are
the different
parts of this
label?
What is the
dose for
adults?
1 tablet daily; not more than 1 tablet in 24 hours

49. Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NXqTqZLl90
Watch this video for practice using medical vocabulary.

50. End.