T is introductory unit aims to begin to build students’ medical vocabulary and to develop their skills in listening and note-taking. Guidance on good practice in skills development for listening and note-taking is provided in the Skills Bank.
T e unit has two sets of listening texts. T e fi rst (in Lesson 1.2) is a lecture which provides an overview of medicine and its diff erent branches. T e second is a series of mini lectures on diff erent aspects of medicine. In this series, students listen to the lecture introductions (Lesson 1.3) and then to the complete lectures (Lesson 1.4), and practise their listening skills, note-taking and ability to speak from their notes.
Language skills • listening and speaking
Topics
• background to the discipline • areas of study: anatomy · biochemistry · pathology · pharmacology · physiology
Vocabulary focus
• guessing specialized meanings in context • using prefi xes/suffi xes to guess meaning
Skills focus
• preparing for a lecture • listening and taking notes • choosing a note-taking format • speaking from notes
Key vocabulary
administer admit analysis analyze anatomy biochemistry cell diagnose disease functioning heal health history identify illness interpret irregular malfunction mechanism microbiology outpatient pathology patient perform physician physiology practitioner prescribe prevent record theatre treat
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