This unit provides an opportunity for revision of many of the concepts and vocabulary items used in the book in the context of the future of medicine. Some new vocabulary is introduced, particularly in relation to nanotechnology and genetics, but much of it follows on naturally from earlier chapters.
Skills focus
Reading understanding how ideas in a text are linked
Vocabulary focus
verbs used to introduce ideas from other sources (X contends/suggests/asserts that …)
linking words/phrases conveying contrast (whereas), result (consequently), reasons (due to), etc.