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Unit 6: Nursing
Give it a go
Listen for definitions in a talk Predict content of spoken sentences from a linking word
Recognize target vocabulary in context: different careers in nursing Learn about the responsibilities of nurses
Introduction Focus on the title: Give it a go. The phrase means that people should try something to see whether it works. Check that students know what a podcast is and ask them if they ever listen to them. This lesson focuses on the different types of nurses – the abbreviations and names used on page 83 are generally used in most countries (although there may be differences).
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If your class is not very imaginative, you may have to give them some help. For example: study hard, do volunteer jobs, read a lot, talk with healthcare professionals, watch healthcare programmes on TV, etc. Give students a minute or two to discuss the question, and then elicit ideas.
Answers Students’ own answers.
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1. Focus students on the introduction to the podcast and check understanding. Ask students to discuss the meaning of the words in bold in pairs. Do not elicit answers. Give students time to read the definitions and complete the exercise by writing the bold words next to the definitions. Ask students to give you the part of speech of each word or ask them to look up the words in a dictionary and check parts of speech.
2. Play the recording. Students check their answers in pairs. Answers
a. approach b. fail c. career d. volunteering e. principle f. essential g. succeed h. chance
Transcript 084
Hi, everyone, and welcome to this week’s podcast from
be-a-nurse.com. We are the podcast that helps young people to move into healthcare. You can find notes about all the shows under the podcast tab on the website, and I’m also on Facebook and Twitter, of course. Did you know? Every year, thousands of new people start a career in healthcare. That means they begin a training
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programme or a new job in nursing companies all over the world. Some want to become general nurses; some want to become specialized nurses like, you know, become an expert in one area. Unfortunately, some people don’t succeed. Most of the time that means they’re not good at maths, science or English. It’s essential that you are good at those, and also you must have the motivation for nursing. Motivation is a strong feeling that you want to do something. So why else do people fail? Often they do not have experience. Experience is, for instance, learning to deal with people. You can learn this by volunteering in the community, or taking a summer holiday job in a hospital. In this week’s podcast, I will be talking to Lindy Roper. She wants a career in nursing, and I hope I can help her. It’s a very exciting time, but it’s also very hard work. Lindy and I will look at the principles, or the ideas and basic points, about starting a new career, such as experience, your plans and your approach.
Listening skill: Listening for definitions
Go through the information. Check that students can see how the rule or pattern is used in each example sentence. A key point is that the target words are repeated in sentence type 2.
Play Track 84 from
Exercise B again. Pause after each definition is given. Elicit the sentence type with the help from the Listening skills box. Then, if there is time, ask students to look at the transcript for Track 84 and underline all the definitions.
Answers
Hi, everyone and welcome to this week’s podcast from
be-a-nurse.com. We are the podcast that helps young people to move into healthcare. You can find notes about all the shows under the podcast tab on the website, and I’m also on Facebook and Twitter, of course. Did you know? Every year thousands of new people start a career in healthcare. That means they begin a training programme or a new job in nursing companies all over the world. Some want to become general nurses; some want to become specialized nurses like, you know, become an expert in one area. Unfortunately, some people don’t succeed. Most of the time that means they’re not good at maths, science or English. It’s essential that you are good at those, and also you must have the motivation for nursing. Motivation is a strong feeling that you want to do something. So why else do people fail? Often they do not have experience. Experience is, for instance, learning to deal with people. You can learn this by volunteering in the community, or taking a summer holiday job in a hospital. In this week’s podcast, I will be talking to Lindy Roper. She wants a career in nursing, and I hope I can help her. It’s a very exciting time, but it’s also very hard work. Lindy and I will look at the principles, or the ideas and basic points, about starting a new career, such as experience, your plans and your approach. The extra examples are: ‘… that means they’re not good at maths …’ and ‘… such as experience, your plans and your approach’.
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