Part One: Warm up
Discuss the following questions with your partner(s).
- Does your country have a good healthcare system? Is it public or private? Or both?
- If you have a public system, who is eligible to access the system?
- What does it cover?
- What do you know about the Canadian healthcare system?
Part Two: Getting Ready to Write & Writing & Taking it Further
In this lesson, you are going to complete a form for public health insurance in British Columbia, Canada. If you are eligible, you can use your completed form to enrol. If you are not eligible, practising completing this form will help you to fill out other important forms in English.
Before we complete the form, we’re going to get to know more about the healthcare system.
Using this link, work with your partner(s) to find out:
Teacher Notes
Teachers can see the answers for the following discussion in the exercise.
- What is public health insurance called in British Columbia?
- What does it cover?
- Which of the following BC residents are eligible for public health insurance?
- First Nations people in BC
- Canadian citizens
- Canadian Permanent Residents
- People with work or study permits that are valid for six months or longer
- People with work or study permits that are valid for less than six months
- Tourists
- Dependents of anyone who is eligible
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