English for Health and Behavioural Sciences Universitat de les Illes Balears Nursing College
UNIT 1 Patient admissions On the previous lesson of the 29th of September, the professor started emphasizing the importance of studying abbreviations and vocabulary of the Unit 1, as well as searching new vocabulary and sharing it in the portfolio. He also explained __ ( (TO) us how to do the handover: one student must do the handover of the previous class, that means one of us has to explain and summarize the lesson on this Google drive document where we can enter by his invitation. It will be corrected in the next lesson. Next, Jordi wrote a question on the board: “What does being a nurse entail?”. We had to pair up in order to answer the question. Then, we made a kind of brainstorm by saying what ideas came to our mind when we think about our future career. Some of the ideas were: empathy, look after patients, emotional intelligence, giving support, collocations, patience , dependable among other things. Then, we read and commented our feelings about a piece of a text which says that “Being a nurse isn’t about grades, it is about being who you are”. We also saw a video in youtube called “Being a nurse”. The most important expressions and vocabulary in the video were: -Quit learning ( never stop learning) -Check and re check piggy bags -Reach out (try to communicate) -Manage your time
We continued the lesson by making activity 1 page 6, but first we searched for the meaning of the verb “to scrub up” in Cambridge Dictionary online. -Scrub up: when a doctor scrubs up, He or She washes the hands and arms very carefully before performing a medical operation.
In the activity 1, we had to choose the correct verb tenses: Present Simple or Present Continuous. The last activity was a Speaking one. We worked in pairs asking questions and noting down our partner answers. To conclude the lesson, professor explained the homework we should do and how to send it to the portfolio: -Write exercise 2 page 7: a short composition about your partner, using the information we got in the Speaking. - Read the text “The Nursing Profession” and answer true or false for the questions professor wrote on the board. We will correct it next lesson. - Make the composition with your own words about the video “ How heart works” wich is in the wiki.
Monday, 6th of October In the last lesson we had of English for Health and Behavioural Sciences we started reading the last handover written by Elena and correcting the mistakes she had made. After that, jordi explained to us how the procedure would be to pass the subject. He told us that we would have got it all written at the "Guia Docent". Next, we started to read the article "The Nursing Profesion" and to comment (on) it. During the reading, Jordi explained to us the meaning of some words we could find in the text. We also discussed about the different responsabilities of the nurses staff. When we finished the reading, Jordi asked to us what we thought about the nurses’ income.[lljflkajlfjañljsf] He also asked our opinion about if it was right with their responsibility. Then we saw a piece of the film "girl, interrupted" and we had to answer some questions about that film in pairs. After that, we learnt some of the hospital departments and we had been practising the pronuntiation of those words. To learn the meaning of those words, Jordi gave to us some definitions and we had to choose from a list the correct word. Before the break, Jordi gave us a tool to correct our writings. We will find that tool on the web page www.hemingwayapp.com.
Comentario [1]: asked us as the verb doesn't take the preposition "to"
To continue the class we started the unit 1 of the book. That unit was about the topic "Patient admissions". We did some listening exercices to learn the way to take a patient's history. Then, Jordi told us that we had to prepare in pairs a dialogue, as if we were a nurse and her patient. We will have to represent the dialogue on the next class. To conclude the class, Jordi explained to us the homework that we have to do. We have to prepare two compositions. The first one is about a dialogue comented some paragraphs ago. The second one was a writing explaining how the heart works to represent in front of the class in two weeks’ time. Handover 13th of October On the previous lesson of 13th of October we started reading and correcting Maria’s handover. Then Jordi reminded us to correct the mistakes on the portfolio after having corrected it. After that, Jordi showed us a list with some words related to the health, so that he said the definition and we had to match the correct word in the list. Next, we corrected the speaking about the data collection. In these speaking we had to represent a nurse and a patient on the admission procedure. Nurse did questions to the patient about past medical history, medication or allergies and the patient answered them. To continue, Jordi prepared some words to practice pronunciation and to increase our health vocabulary. Then we did the exercises A, B, C from page number 48 about drug, family and social and personal history. It contained some questions to get this relevant information. We read it and solved our doubts. Next, we went to the page 9 from the nursing book and we did exercises A and B about the heart. In the exercise A, we had to answer questions about the heart such as “what is the cardiac cycle?” or “what does the heart do during a heartbeat?”. In the exercise B we had to explain what the different parts of the heart do. Then we read the text “how does your heart work?” and the teacher told us to prepare a short presentation about the heart for the next class. At the end of the class we went to the page 10 and we did the exercises about “putting a patient at ease”. We listened to a conversation between a nurse and her patient and then we answered exercises B and C.
Monday, 20th of October
On the last lesson of the 20th of October, we were visited by Lavinya, who is also a teacher of English. After the presentation, Jordi explained to us the contents of this lesson: learn the symptoms of mental illness, some modal verbs and new vocabulary such as blackout, dizziness, fits, numbness and tingling. Next, Jordi showed us an application to practice our pronunciation all at home and repeat aloud, thermometer, dosage and injure. To continue, Jordi told Lavinya was the Handover. Silvia read the summary of the previous class while we correct the mistakes she had had. Later, Lavinya said we were going to see a video entitled "In love and loss - The Vanishing mind", we had to make a prediction of what we thought the video was about. In the video, a woman explains how she finds herself struggling with her husband's dementia. After seeing the video, Lavinya asked us why we felt fortunate and she proposed for the next class to write three questions about the video for a classmate to answer. Next, we started the unit 25 of the book . That unit was about the topic "Mental illness", and talked about the different types of psychiatric disorders, affective disorders and substance abuse such as alcohol or drugs. Then, we did the exercises on page 59. When we returned from the break, we did a brief review of present simple and present continuous. Jordi put on the blackboard exercises to practice, where we had to complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. After that, three classmates explained how the heart works. To conclude the class, Jordi explained to us the homework that we have to do. We have to write three questions about the video in our portfolio and prepare the composition on how the heart works. Monday, 27th of October The class began with the reading of the last handover made by rakel. After that, Jordi gave us a photocopy with six stories of six different people and, in groups, we had to to talk about whether this people have a mental illness or not, to discuss with other groups about it. subsequently, we went to the page number thirty (Professional English in use) to read vocabulary of body parts, to the page hundred forty three to read different types of
Comentario [2]: ... what the handover was
medication and to the page hundred forty four to know vocabulary of different symptoms and pains. To continue, we read about a recepcionist work and Jordi sent a writing about what we do at practice for homework. Finally, we went to page number eleven and twelve at the book "English for Nursing " and we did the exercises b, c, d and e.
Monday, 3th of November On the last lesson, we started reading the last handover written by Alejandro and correcting the mistakes he had made. After that, Jordi showed us a list of some words related to the health and their meaning, in order to amplify our vocabulary. Next, Jordi prepared an activity to practice pronunciation, in which we had to classify the words into three columns according to phonics. Then, we went to the page 109 (Professional English in use) to read the activity 3, Jordi was interested in us practicing pronunciation as well as learning new expressions. Subsequently, we read the unit 51 and did the activities. That unit was about the topic “Mental state examination”. Later, Jordi gave us a photocopy and sent us an activity of true or false for the next class. After that, we did the activities on page 13 of the book “Cambridge English for Nursing”. To end the class, the teacher gave us a reminder of passive voice, and said he would put a tutorial and some activities on the handover.
PASSIVE VOICE ● ●
To watch a couple of tutorials on passive voice, click on 1 and on 2 (Both of them highly recommendable) To practice passive voice exercices, click on A and on B.
HANDOVER 10th NOVEMBER 2014 First of all, we read Ana´s handover from the previous week.
Afterwards, MarĂa asked the teacher if he could explain the difference between in, at and on. Jordi said he would prepare it for the following week. Then Jordi presented and explained the new vocabulary which was asthma related and he taught us the correct pronunciation. We studied a photocopy entitled " symptoms" and we practised the pronunciation of 7 words. Jordi gave us homework from the same photocopy. We watched a short video about asthma and another one filmed in a hospital in the UK about asthma in children. We had to write 5 questions in class about the video. We started on unit 2 from Cambridge English for Nursing: " Respiratory Problems". We listened to a recording from unit 2. Jordi told us to write a report for the following week on how to manage an asthma attack using the new vocabulary. We had to add it to the portfolio. Then we corrected the homework from the previous week. After the break we looked at units 1 to 3 from Professional English in Use. Finally, Jordi showed us 2 pictures. One was of the lungs and the other one of the urinary system.
Applying plant extract and herbal medicine has been a long documented approach in alternative/complementary medicine to accelerate wound healing. Do you think that these approaches are viable? How would you scientifically validate their effect on wound healing?
Monday, 24th of November
On the previous lesson of the 17th of November, we started reading the last handover written by Isidora and corrected the mistakes. After that, as Jordi told us in the previous week, he prepared a short exposition about “in, on, at”. We saw a video to understand the prepositions of place. Next, he explained on the blackboard the prepositions of time. To continue, we saw another video called “How a wound heals itself”. It explains how the wounds heal with four stages: hemostasis, inflammation, vasodilation and remodeling. Then, we had some activities about it. After the brake, Jordi prepared some words to practice our pronunciation. Then, he explained the homework, we should do a short composition about herbal medicine and the exercise 5 b in the page 15 of the Cambridge English for Nursing. Subsequently, we moved to page 17 and 18 of the Cambridge English for Nursing and then, Jordi explanatio the vocabulary of the respiratory systeme. We had the exercise 4 a. b. and d. To conclude, we went to the page 16 of the unit 4 (Professional English in Use) to learnt the functions of the body and increase our health vocabulary. Then, Jordi only explained the more important words in the exercises and was so interested in our pronunciation, because we did’t have any (more) time.
HANDOVER ENGLISH FOR NURSING AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES NOVEMBER 24TH 2014 We started class reading Rafa´s handover.
Then we continued with a phonemic activity. It was a very interesting and important way to practice pronunciation in English. The words were: /mæˈleɪz/
malaise
/ˈleθədʒɪ/
lethargy
/fəˈtiːg/
fatigue
/ˈtaɪədnəs/
tiredness
/ɪgˈzɔːstɪd/
exhausted
/ˈkɒnstɪpeɪtɪd/
constipated
After that, we started activities from the book CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH FOR NURSING unit 2, pages eighteen, nineteen and twenty. We listened to the dialogues and then completed the answers. We also did an exercise in pairs using diagrams of healthy airways and asthmatic airways explaining the details of an asthma attack. It was to be sent to the portfolio afterwards. We finished the class with a conversation exercise in pairs.
Recommended exercices on conditionals
On the previous lesson of the 1st of december we started reading Azucena’s handover.
We did the writing and reading exams. Then, we watched a video about the conditionals. Jordi will put some exercices to practise at home. After that, Jordi explained the lesson 14 (symptoms and signs) and the lesson 30 (the respiratory system) and recommended us to do exercises from page 37 and page 69.
On the previous lesson of the 15th of December we started reading the handover. We corrected the exam. Everyone had their exam and we had to correct all the mistakes we had made. Then Jordi explained the relatives. First, we learnt the relatives who, which, whose, whom and that (we have this link with exercises and grammar). Then we studied the relatives where, when and why. Finally, we practiced the difference between who and whom. After the break, Jordi explained when it’s possible to omit a relative. Then, the difference between defining and non-defining relatives was explained.
To finish the class, we did a listening about an observation chart. We had to correct all the mistakes.
On the previous lesson of 12th of January 2015, it was the first Monday after the holidays. First of all, Elena presented her oral speech, which she did very well. After the presentation, Jordi gave us some evaluation sheets to assess Elena’s presentation. After the presentation, we reviewed the phonetic sounds of the following words: feverish, febrile, rigors, aetiology, antibiotic, curable, outbreak, virus, germ-bug, bowel, measles, hepatitis, mumps, harbour (verb), rubella, myalgia, hoarsness, consciousness, seizure. After that we studied unit 24 (infections), unit 26 (the nervous system 1) and unit 27 (the nervous system 2). http://vimeo.com/26580985 Vaccinations Class of the 19th of January
At the begining of the class Alejandro and Isidora presented their works and Jordi commented the pronuntiation and how well they did it. After that, Jordi told us which chapters we have to study for the exam. Moreover, Jordi explained us some words to present the topic “Opinion Assisted Dying” and we gave our opinion about it. After the break, Manu’s handover was readen. Then Jordi explained the most important units for the exam (Cambridge English for Nursing) ● Unit 1: Patients admissions ● Unit 2: Respiratory problems ● Uni 6: Medications. Ater that, he remembered all the grammars we’ve studied and said that “it’s important to have a look” (passive voice, relative clauses, linkers, modal verbs, reported speech and conditionals)
Then, we went to Professional English in Use to explain the most important ideas of lesson 30 (The Respiratory system) and lesson 34 ( Basic investigations). He recommended us to watch a video about “Korotkoff Blood Pressure Sights and Sounds”. To finish, we did a review from unit 40 ( Medical treatment) and unit 43 (Screening and immunization)
In the last class of 26 of January , at the beginning of class , my classmates and I set out our oral presentations. I myself can not assess me , but I think my teammates did very well . After oral presentations , we stopped for 10 minutes. After the break we did in pairs role play . After class , we ask Jordi in the review of the day 29 .