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Nursing personnel

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Prepositions of Iimei at 7 a,m.,

X-ray machine, CT scanner, etc.

Blanket, trolley, walking stick, wheelchair

Patient record: surname, gender, marital status, etc

earache, etc.

Common childhood diseases:

rubella, mumps, meas/es Items for taking a blood sample:

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Ordering food from a hospital menu

Helping a patient order from a

Encouraging and praising a

patient

Expressions of encouragement and praise

Verbsi breathe, chey drink,

Taking a patient's temperature Making polite requests Treating a patient with

hypothermia

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Reading a nursing schedule

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patients, visitors and colleagues

documents and charts

Prepositions of time

Match these ways of telling the time (1-8) to the times in the box in L

I nine twenty in the morning

-2 eight o'clock in the evening

-3 midday

4 quarter to three in the afternoon

5 half past eleven at night

6 three in the afternoon

Work in pairs Ask and answer these questions with your partner.

I What time is it now?

2 What time do you get up in the morning?

3 What time do you start work/your shift every day?

4 What time do you/does your shift finish?

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Listen again to Denny and tick / the expressions in 2 that he uses

complete this family tree with the underlined words in the box Then complete

Draw a picture of a family and label the people with words from 4 Then work

in pairs Look at the information on page 68 Follow the instructions.

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Escorting a patient for tests

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Ordinal numbers

Listen again and complete each patient's name and date of birth (DOB) in 1-6

on the appointments sheet in 3

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day.month.year

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3 What is the patient's job?

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symptoms can appear in more than one disease

When to give the vaccine

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2 What do the letters MMR stand for?

3 How old are children when they receive the MMR vaccine? (2 answers)

5 How much does the MMR vaccine cost?

6 What is the treatment for these svmptoms?

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4 a small pin prick I will I feel / you

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Language

1 The nurses' lounge is in I on the left.

3 The meeting room isn't in I on this floor.

4 The conference room is down I under thehall, at I on your right.

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verbs in brackets.

give him some pain medication.

What (5) (the nursing assistants / do)?

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The qualities of a responsible nurse

1 What is the nurse doing?

2 What do you think the patient wants? Make a list.

phrases in the box

1 Mrs Azzizawanls

Listen again and complete the nurses' expressions

1 can I help you?

2 -can

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6 Listen again and choose the correct words in itqlics.

1 Mr Friedricks can't breathe I sleep I read

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Hospital food and beverages

complete it with the words in the box

group Then add two items to each group.

each group

BeveragesDesserts

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Measurements and quantities

l-anguageNurnbers

7396: seven thousand,three hundred and ninety-six

456

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Listen to four conversations in which people talk about calories and

measurement measures (i-iii),

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Helping a patient order from a hospital menu

1 Which foods are usually given to hospital patients in your country or place

of work?

2 How much choice do patients have in your country or place of work?

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Cherif has problems breathing.

3 Lydia doesn't like vegetables

4 She orders a cheese omelette and a bread roll with butter for the main course

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2 Patients put it into a cup or glass and use it for drinking'

3 It doesn't move, so it is easier for patients to eat from it

5 Patients can hold it with both hands and drink from it.

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say positive things about the food

from the box.

Match the words in bold in the text in 2 to these definitions.

3 a type of table that people use so that they can eat in bed

5 food and drink lor good health and growth

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parts of the body you hear

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4 What does she think of the new exercises?

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