1. Professional English in Use, Medicine Health and illness
Awat Qaladzay
Tuesday /01/2016

2. Outline Asking about health Sickness Recovery Exercises Sentences
Sentences and clauses
Paragraphs
Phrases
Phrase of the day!

3. Asking about health X Health: it is the state of the body
eg: Doctors ask:
1. What is your general health like?
2. How’s your health, generally?
In good health= well and has no illness
Healthy= normally strong and can resist illness
Fit= well and strong X
not ill
ill

4. Sickness
Sickness: it has the same meaning to illness. It is used for specific diseases
eg: sleeping sickness, travel sickness
Patients talk about sickness when they mean nausea and vomiting.
Sickness and diarrhoea means vomiting and diarrhoea
Patient says
Possible meaning
I was sick this morning.
I was ill this morning.
I felt unwell this morning
I vomited this morning
I feel sick.
I feel ill
I feel unwell
I am nauseous
I feel the need to vomit.

5. Recovery
Recovery: it is when patients return to normal health after sickness.
The patient made a (good, full, complete) recovery.
Improvement: when patient’s health is in the process of returning to normal. WHILE the opposite is deterioration.
In speech, we often use the verb get to talk about change.
eg:
get over (an illness) means to recover
get better means to improve
get worse means to deteriorate
Another word for improvement is remission
Two years later she remains in complete remission.
When patients health is better, but then gets worse again, the patient has relapsed.

6. Exercises
Let’s do them now

7. Sentences
In writing, words are grouped together into phrases, sentences, clauses and paragraphs. Linking these building blocks together in the right way makes your writing easy to understand and interesting to read.

8. Sentences and clauses
A sentence has a capital letter at the beginning and ends with a full stop (.), a question mark (?) or an exclamation mark (!). It must have a verb in it and it must make complete sense all on its own.
Note: A simple sentence is called a clause.
Clauses
Some sentences can be broken up into smaller sentences. These simple sentences are called clauses.
eg: She ran down the road but he chose to walk.
This sentence is made up of two clauses, both of which could work on their own as simple sentences.
You can join clauses together using conjunctions to make more interesting sentences that are much easier to read than lots of short sentences.
eg: Amy took the dog for a walk. It got very dirty.
eg: Amy took the dog for a walk and it got very dirty.
eg: The dog got very dirty when Amy took it for a walk.

9. Paragraphs
A paragraph is a collection of sentences about the same thing. Collecting your sentences into paragraphs makes your writing easier to read.
Start a new line after each paragraph. You may want to leave a space before you start the next paragraph. Some people like to start the first line of a new paragraph a little way in from the edge of the page. This is called an indent.

10. Phrases
A phrase is a group of words that could be replaced by a single part of speech, for example, a noun.
The big, brown dog had a very loud bark.
The phrase big, brown dog could be replaced by the noun dog.
By using phrases rather than simple nouns or verbs, you can make your writing more descriptive.

11. Phrase of the day
The flu clinic had seen many cases of infectious disease.