in medicine In this unit, students focus on medical achievements over the past 50 years. T e fi rst reading text looks at the development of one such achievement – heart transplants. T e second reading text concerns the advances made in the development of a vaccine for smallpox. Reading skills development in this unit centres on how topic sentences can provide an overview of a text and how research questions can be used to focus on relevant information. Writing skills development focuses on writing topic sentences and writing a summary of a text.
Language skills • reading and writing
Topics
• cardiac surgery • eradication of smallpox by vaccination
Vocabulary focus • using an English–English dictionary
Skills focus
• doing reading research • using topic sentences to summarize a text
Key vocabulary
breakthrough bypass cardiac characteristic (n, adj) circulation eradication fatal fatality goal heart hypothermia immunity incubation period infection mechanism (disease reporting) mortality operate organ oxygenate patient preparation rejection release resistance surgery (procedure) symptoms technique temperature tissue
transmission transplant vaccine valve
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