English for Nursing: a Coursebook for Spanish Students

Argumento de English for Nursing: a Coursebook for Spanish Students

PRESENTACIÓN CUADERNOS PARA LA DOCENCIA

INTRODUCCIÓN

TOPIC I. LET?S GO BACK TO WHERE IT ALL STARTED!
1.1.Warming Up!
1.2.A short history of nursing
1.2.1.Reading Comprehension
1.2.2.Word definition
1.2.3.Increasing your vocabulary
1.3.Nursing as a profession
1.3.1.Increasing your vocabulary
1.3.2.Completing sentences
1.4.Practice settings
1.4.1.Filling gaps
1.4.2.Descriptions
1.4.3.Follow Up!
1.4.3.1.Joining sentences
1.4.3.2.Looking up words in the dictionary
1.4.3.3.Finding out information
1.4.3.4.Writing task
2.One step into grammar! The Passive Voice
2.1.Giving the past participle of the verbs
2.2.Supplying the passive forms of the sentences
2.3.Giving the correct forms of the verbs
2.4.Supplying the active forms of the sentences

TOPIC II. THE HOSPITAL SETTING
1.1.Warming Up!
1.2.The hospital & its medical departments
1.2.1.Reading Comprehension
1.2.2.Definitions
1.2.3.Check your understanding
1.2.4.Increasing your vocabulary
1.2.5.Synonyms
2.Emergency Department
2.1.Reading Comprehension
2.2.Definitions
2.3.Identifying words in the text
2.4. Giving references of pronouns
3.Major Medical Departments
3.1.Matching Exercise
4.The Ward Unit
5.The Medical & the Nursing staff
5.1.Definitions
5.2.Translation
5.3.Completing the box
6. Types of nurses and their roles
6.1.Filling gaps
7.Nursing specialties
7.1.Translation
7.2.Reading
8. One step into grammar! Articles

TOPIC III. THE HUMAN BODY
1.1.Warming Up!
1.2.The Human Body
1.3.Organization of the human body: systems
1.3.1.Reading Comprehension
1.3.2.Completing sentences
1.3.3.Matching exercise
1.3.4.Increasing your vocabulary
1.3.5.Word definition
2.Basic anatomical terms
2.1.Body movements and directional terms
2.2.Body positions
2.3.Body cavities and membranes
2.3.1.Reading Comprehension
2.3.2.Matching exercise
2.3.3.Translation
2.4.Body Planes
3.One step into grammar! Relative clauses

TOPIC IV. THE PATIENT
1.1.Warming Up!
1.2.The Patient. Reading Comprehension
1.3.Writing task
1.4.Transformation
2.Diseases and disorders
2.1.Crossword
2.2.Crossword
2.3.Definitions
3.Describing pain and feelings
3.1.Looking up words in the dictionary
3.2.Descriptions
3.3.Dialogue
4.One step into grammar! Connectors

TOPIC V. PHARMACOLOGY & MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
1.1.Warming Up!
1.2.Pharmacology
1.2.1.Translation
1.2.2.Increasing your vocabulary
1.2.3.Increasing your vocabulary
1.2.4.Word definition
2.Drugs and drug classification
2.1.Reading Comprehension
2.2.Common therapeutic drugs
2.3.Basic term components: prefixes
2.4.Basic term components: suffixes
2.5.Essential medicines
3.Routes of drug administration
3.1.Translation
3.2.Common prescriptions abbreviations and symbols
3.3.Increasing your vocabulary
3.4.Crossword
4.Medical equipment and surgical instruments
4.1.Reading Comprehension
4.2.Definitions
4.3.Surgical instruments. Filling gaps
4.4.Translation

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