Refer students to the Skills bank. Set for individual work. If students took notes in Lesson 2.2, Exercise F, they should use these notes as the basis for this exercise. Encourage students to add extra information or examples to fill out the summary. Tell students to start in class, while you monitor and assist, and finish for homework.
Methodology note
There are two reasons for students to use their own words in written work (except when quoting and acknowledging sources):
1 The work involved in rewording information and ideas helps us to mentally process them and to retain them in memory.
2 Copying whole sentences from the work of other writers is plagiarism (unless the quotation is acknowledged). Universities disapprove of plagiarism and may mark down students who plagiarize. In the commercial world an accusation of plagiarism can cause legal problems, and in the academic world it can severely damage a teacher’s reputation and career.
Closure
Tell students to define some of the medical words from the text on page 17. Alternatively, give definitions of some of the words and tell students to identify the words.
