English 1 for Health Analyst

Lecturer : Dodi Mulyadi

Muhammadiyah University
of Semarang (UNIMUS)
2016
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Symptoms
Language
1 Grammar
Choose the correct option to complete the sentences.
1 Who prescribed you / did prescribe you / do prescribe you that medication?
2 Do you can / Can you / You can move your fingers?
3 Has he been / was / is like this for a long time?
4 Is the swelling / The swelling is / Do the swelling going down?
5 You won’t try to move, will you / won’t you / do you?
6 How long are you / How long have you been / What are you waiting for your appointment?
7 The pain is in your arm, hasn’t / is / isn’t it?
8 Could you to tell / Could you tell / Tell me where it hurts?

2 Key words from the unit

Complete the sentences with the words from the list.
stitches
1 She suffered and vomiting. nausea
2 is an external symptom. mood swings
rash
3 She had a abdomen.
bruising
4 are a typical symptom of chicken pox. swollen
5 A deep cut needs to heal properly. lump
6 A can cause itching. spots
7 He found a above his ankle.
8 Her extreme are difficult to live with.

Reading and vocabuLaRy

Signs and symptoms are the tools for making a diagnosis, but what is the difference between the two?
The signs of an illness are the things that a doctor or nurse can see and measure. Signs are things like
spots and bleeding. Temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and respiration rate are all signs because
you can measure them. Symptoms are the things which a patient experiences, but others can’t
always see. Dizziness and nausea are examples of symptoms.
The symptoms which make a patient seek medical help in the first place are called the presenting
symptoms. Medics describe them in terms of being either strong, mild or weak. Sometimes the
symptoms of serious illnesses like cancer and diabetes are weak. They stay weak for a long time and
the illness remains undiagnosed.
Many illnesses have the same symptoms. These symptoms are called non-specific. Fatigue is an
example of this. It’s a symptom of many kinds of illness, both chronic and acute, and of both physical
and mental disorders.
Doctors ask patients about the onset of the symptoms, what they feel like, what relieves them and
what makes them worse. The more detail they have, the faster they can make a diagnosis.
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3 Comprehension
Decide whether these statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the text.
1 You need signs and symptoms for a diagnosis.
2 You can’t see symptoms.
3 Patients presenting symptoms are either strong, mild or weak.
4 Killer diseases can have weak symptoms.
5 Non-specific symptoms help a lot with diagnosis.
6 Too much information slows up diagnosis.

4 Vocabulary
A nurse wants to know about symptoms and asks the questions a–g.
Write the number of the correct symptom 1–7 after each question.
The first is done for you.
1 diarrhoea
2 spots
3 numbness
4 fever
5 swelling
6 nausea
7 dizziness
a Can you feel this? 3
b Do you have them on your back too?
c How high is it?
d When you have an attack, do you fall over?
e Was there any blood in it?
f Do you still feel sick?
g How long has it been this big?

5 Further vocabulary practice

Underline the correct words in italics to complete the sentences.
The first one is done for you.
1 I have aches and pains / in pain / painful all over my body.
2 My pulse is up to 150 per minute and I feel dizzy / dizziness / to be dizzy.
3 I’ve got an itchy / itchiness / itch rash on the back of my hand.
4 My leg is cut and bruising / bruised / bruise from the accident.
5 He feels nauseous / nausea / nauseating and needs to sit down.
6 She has a small lump / lumpy / lumps on her breast.
7 Her spine is deform / deformed / deformity.
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Stress

lAl Which of these things stress you7

parents D school D
boyfriends/girlfriends D clothes D
money D teachers D
brothers and sisters D homework D
world news 0 computers 0
the weather D mobile phones D

~ The Maharishi school in the USA

specialises in making sure that its students
don't become too stressed. Listen to Lisa and Steven talking about stress in their
lives and then choose the correct ending to each sentence.
1 Lisa is not stressed ... 6 Steven is doing his exams soon but ...
a) when she is on holiday. a) he hasn't revised.
b) by much, she thinks she's quite relaxed. b) he's on a running team and has a part time
c) by exams. job at weekends.
2 Lisa is given ... c) he's not worried.
a) a lot of assignments by her school. 7 Steven thinks that the Maharishi School is ...
b) a lot of help with her schoolwork by her a) too hippyish.
brothers and sisters. b) not necessary for kids.
c) a lot of attention because her parents are divorced. c) a good idea.
3 Lisa's mother stresses her because ... S Steven thinks that his teachers ...
a) she doesn't let her go out at weekends. a) only care about their own subject.
b) she expects her to do well in her exams. b) are fantastic.
c) she worries about her so much. c) dislike him.
4 All Lisa's brother and sisters ... 9 Both Steven and Lisa think ...
a) are at university. a) that their classmates would love to go to the
b) are younger and Lisa hasto look after them a lot. Maharishi School.
c) are very calm. b) that their classmates would hate to go to the
S Lisa is scared of ... Maharishi School.
a) the dark. c) that their classmates would be embarrassed
b) speaking in public. to do yoga at school at first.
c) letting her mother down.

,~ ~ Listen again and complete the tables with words from the recording.
adjective noun verb noun
ambition imagination
relaxation agreement
pride trainer
stressful feeling
sympathy expectation
embarrassment studies

Think of five adjectives to describe your ideal school and five adjectives to describe
your ideal teacher. Show your partner. Choose the best three adjectives for your ideal
school and the best three for your ideal teacher. Report back to the class.

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20 The end of smallpox

This is a success story for medicine - but lots more
problems remain. Look at the pictures and tell the story.

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fwtqt:PJtf!" 20 THE END OF SMALLPOX

Make a sentence about each picture and retell the story. Use these words to help you.

1 Medical science has smallpox.

outbreaks
2 This terrible disease has been . conquered
injected
3 A British doctor, Edward Jenner discovered the smallpox in 1796. emersenctj
eradicated
vaccine
4 He people with a vaccine and their bodies to built up resistance.
campaign
remote
S By 1900 there was almost no smallpox in Europe and North America, but
risk
............................... of the disease continued in South America, Asia and Africa.

6 In 1965, the World Health Organisation began a vaccination to eradicate smallpox.

7 Teams of doctors have vaccinated millions of people even in areas.

8 Huge stores of vaccine are kept in Geneva and New Delhi in case of .

9 But we are still at from killer diseases such as SARS and AIDS.

A Listen to the story and check your answers to Exercise 2.

Circle the correct answer.

1 Smallpox is a (countrj], disease, science).

2 A sudden appearance or beginning of something bad is called a(n) (headline, outbreak, vaccine).

3 A discoverer (finds, kills, opens) something.

4 If you build up resistance to a disease you (can, can't, have to) get sick from it.

S A team is a group of people who (work, eat, live) together.

~ Listen to the interview with a doctor in Africa.

a Answer the questions:

1 What does he like about the work?

2 What doesn't he like?

b Work in pairs and prepare an interview with a villager. Student A

is the interviewer and Student B is the villager.

Ask questions like ...

'How does the doctor help people in your village?'

'What other things does your village need to make life

easier?'

.; Extension activities ..................................................

a To talk about •

.
You are the Government. A company has discovered a vaccine which :

can extend life by an average of ten years. Will you allow this vaccine:

to be sold? :

..................................................................................

b Write 'The end of smallpox' in your own words. :

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