1.2 Listening


Write the suggestions under the appropriate headings. Ensure that you include the need to make an outline and to make notes, as students will be expected to make some notes in this lesson. (Lesson 1.3 will provide suggestions on diff erent ways to approach making notes.)


SKILLS BANK 1.1 Preparing for a lecture


SKILLS BANK 1.2 Listening and taking notes


Draw students’ attention to Skills Bank 1.1, 1.2. Explain that you will return to look at these points in more detail.


Give students time to prepare to make some notes. Tell them that they are only going to hear the introduction once, as in an authentic lecture situation.


Set for individual work. 01


Play Part 1 of the lecture. Feed back on the board.


Suggested answers • diff erent areas in medicine • language of medicine • branches of the medical profession • possible defi nition of medicine


01 Part 1


Good morning, and welcome to the Faculty of Medicine. As Dean of the Faculty, it gives me great pleasure to see so many of you here today taking your first steps in what I believe is one of the most rewarding and demanding careers it is possible to have. In my lecture today, I’m going to start by outlining some of the different areas you will begin to study; after that, I will introduce some of the new language you will need to learn as part of your studies. We’ll then look at different branches of the medical profession, and we’ll finish by looking at a possible definition of medicine itself.


METHODOLOGY NOTE Listening once


In this course, students are taught to expect only one hearing during the lesson and are encouraged to develop coping strategies to enable them to extract the key points during this one hearing. Listening texts may be repeated for further analysis but not for initial comprehension.


C 02


Set for individual work, and remind students to take notes as they listen to Part 2 of the lecture. Do not comment further before they have listened.


Feed back verbally: many medical words come from Greek and Latin, and this can help students to learn new medical vocabulary. You may want to ask students which example words they can remember from the listening – physiology, pharmacology, pathology.


Answer Many medical words have Greek and Latin roots/origins.


02


Part 2 Lecturer


In your studies, you will begin with human anatomy, which looks at the structure of the body. This will help you to understand physiology – the way the healthy body functions. The next area of study is pharmacology – the study of how drugs interact with living organisms. In biochemistry, the chemistry which takes place in living organisms, you will analyze the structure and function of their chemical compounds. Finally, you will learn about specific diseases in pathology – how they are caused and how to cure them. These are the core subjects that you will study, but there will be others. You may find it difficult to absorb so


many new words at the same time. I must stress that you will be introduced to a whole new language as you continue your study of medicine. Some words used in medicine are already used in general English. A good example of this is the word scan. In everyday English, it is used to refer to the way in which a person looks around quickly for something, or reads quickly, looking for specific information. In a medical context, the word is used to describe techniques such as ultrasound which provide a visual display of the internal organs and other body structures. In both contexts, the word indicates a means of finding information visually. However, much of the language has its


origins in Greek and Latin, and this can be very useful in understanding new words. I will try to demonstrate this using a few of the examples I have just given you. We shall take three: physiology, pharmacology and pathology – all of which, as I have already outlined, are concerned with the study of a specific area of knowledge relevant to


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