1. FMUC Inglês October 2011 – January 2012 Michael Hughes contact: michaeldh@fl.uc.pt

2. November 3
Vocabulary Review Feedback on Needs Analysis Feedback on Level-check Test Reading and Vocabulary: Describing a Condition Maintaining Vocabulary Records Collocation

3. Vocabulary Review
Get ready to explain to me (or someone who wasn’t here last week!) what the main difference is between:
an illness and a sickness
a disorder and a syndrome
an injury and a wound
a lesion and a trauma
an injury and a lesion
a disease and an infection
a condition and an illness
Which two words from last week are NOT in the above questions?

4. Collocation Which of the 13 words can you suffer from but not have?
none of them!
Which nouns can you treat?
all of them!
Which nouns can you cure?
an ailment, an illness, a sickness, a disease, an infection, (a condition,)
Which nouns can you heal?
an injury, a wound, a lesion, a trauma

5. Feedback on Needs Analysis
Highly relevant
Quite relevant
Possibly relevant
Not relevant
Reading
57%
32% 4% 5%
Writing
40%
18% 2%
Speaking: discussions
21%
52%
26%
Speaking: patients
17%
24%
59% 0%
Speaking: presentations
47%
14%

6. Feedback on Needs Analysis
Highly relevant
Quite relevant
Possibly relevant
Not relevant
Grammar revision
17%
40%
26%
General vocabulary
31%
44%
16% 9%
Medical vocabulary
78%
21% 2% 0%
Listening
35%
Exam preparation 5%
38%

7. Feedback on Needs Analysis
Your areas of importance:
Vocabulary related to medical English
Reading English texts with greater fluency
Giving short presentations in English
Writing in academic English
Taking part in discussions in English
Dealing with patients in English
General vocabulary

8. Feedback on Levels

9. Feedback on Levels

10. DESCRIBING A CONDITION
Read the text about a medical condition and decide which of the following topics each paragraph is talking about
Symptoms
Causes
Diagnosis 2
Treatment 1
Complications

11. DESCRIBING A CONDITION
Symptoms
Causes
Diagnosis
Treatment
Complications

12. DESCRIBING A CONDITION THE PASSIVE
In texts of this type, the passive is very often used, as the author is not referring to any particular individual and chooses to adopt a more formal distanced style.
The passive is formed with ‘be’ + past participle.
Read the 15 extracts again, and underline any examples of the passive that you can identify. How many extracts (and which ones) do not contain any examples of the passive?

13. DESCRIBING A CONDITION THE PASSIVE
1. … can be used … … The medicines used … … is found.
2. It is thought … … are incorrectly identified … … are incorrectly interpreted
3. … is often thought …
4. … may be linked … … It is thought that …
5. This can usually be made …

14. DESCRIBING A CONDITION THE PASSIVE
6. It is thought that …
7. … may be referred … 8.
9. … is provided, …
10.

15. DESCRIBING A CONDITION THE PASSIVE
11. … to be achieved …
12. … to be considered.
13. … that are inherited …
14. … should be provided …
15. About half of those children diagnosed with TS …

16. Using the passive
Look at PEIUM, Unit 7 (which happens to be about nurses ...). Fill in the gaps in exercises 7.3 and 7.4 using an active or passive verb form of perform or carry out – be careful with the tenses!
7.4
infinitive (with ‘to’)
present perfect
present perfect (or past simple)
past simple
infinitve
7.3
infinitive (with ‘to’)
past simple
infinitive

17. Vocabulary records What do you need to record and remember?
Meaning (Translation?)
Spelling
Pronunciation: main stress
Pronunciation: important sounds
Use: collocations, phrases
Related parts of speech

18. Recording Vocabulary Word Meaning (translation?) Use + collocations
obscene (adj)
(very) rude
~ words, ~ images, ~ gestures
onset (n) (prof)
beginning
the ~ of a symptom
to snort (v)
to make a noise through the nose
a horse snorts
mild (adj)
light, not serious
a ~ symptom  

19. HOMEWORK PEIUM: Units 14 (Symptoms) and 24 (Infections)
Go to the NHS user website ( Click on the HEALTH A-Z window on the home page and find a medical condition that interests you. Make notes on your chosen condition under separate headings for:
Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment and Complications.
PEIUM: Units 14 (Symptoms) and 24 (Infections)

20. FMUC Inglês October 2011 – January 2012 Michael Hughes contact: michaeldh@fl.uc.pt

21. Course Information
Attendance: minimum 7 out of 10 + final exam (i.e. maximum 3 ‘faltas’) Course times: start promptly at / 16.00; finish at / Course dates: as Faculty Calendar (if I am absent, classes will be made up, probably on a Friday afternoon!)

22. Course Information
Course Materials: Professional English in Use – Medicine (PEIUM), Glendinning and Howard, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN: Other materials supplied during course

23. Course Information
Course Syllabus: based on needs analysis probably ocused on vocabulary and skills (reading, writing, speaking?); probably less focus on listening, grammar

24. Course Information
Course expectations: classes, not lectures development of knowledge and skills through input and practice participation and interaction

25. Course Information
Course expectations: in class – independent, working in English; in groups of 2, 3 or 4; discussions, exercises, etc., followed by feedback; self-checking of answers at home – regular homework, usually based on PEIUM; self-checking of answers

26. Course Information
My role: coach, not schoolteacher! Your role: independent, organised and proactive. Basically, the more you contribute to the course, the more you will get out of it!

27. Course Information
Assessment:
Final exam in January – no continuous assessment
And the first example of being independent, organised and proactive is ...
Compulsory homework for the first week: BUY/ACQUIRE THE BOOK!