In this unit, students focus on some more of the basic principles of medicine. The first text deals with cells (their structure and function), viruses and DNA, helping students to develop skills in paraphrasing as well as sentence construction. The second text focuses on the principles of pharmacology through its history up to the present day. This leads to further work on sentence structure and production.
Skills focus Reading locating key information in complex sentences
Writing reporting findings from other sources: paraphrasing writing complex sentences