Transcript Health and illness

Professional English in Use, Medicine
Health and illness
Awat Qaladzay
Monday
04/01/2016
Outline
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Asking about health
Sickness
Recovery
Exercises
Sentences
Sentences and clauses
Paragraphs
Phrases
Phrase of the day!
Asking about health
• Health: it is the state of the body
eg: Doctors ask:
1. What is your general health like?
2. How’s your health, generally?
• In good health= well and has no illness
• Healthy= normally strong and can resist illness
• Fit= well and strong
not ill
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ill
Sickness
• Sickness: it has the same meaning to illness. It is used for specific
diseases
eg: sleeping sickness, travel sickness
Patients talk about sickness when they mean nausea and vomiting.
Patient says
Possible meaning
I was sick this morning.
I was ill this morning.
I felt unwell this morning
I vomited this morning
I feel sick.
I feel ill
I feel unwell
I am nauseous
I feel the need to vomit.
• Sickness and diarrhoea means vomiting and diarrhoea
Recovery
• Recovery: it is when patients return to normal health after sickness.
The patient made a (good, full, complete) recovery.
• Improvement: when patient’s health is in the process of returning to
normal. WHILE the opposite is deterioration.
• In speech, we often use the verb get to talk about change.
eg:
When patients health is
get over (an illness) means to recover
better, but then gets worse
again, the patient has
get better means to improve
relapsed.
get worse means to deteriorate
• Another word for improvement is remission
eg:
Two years later she remains in complete remission.
Exercises
• Let’s do them now
Sentences
• In writing, words are grouped together into phrases,
sentences, clauses and paragraphs. Linking these building
blocks together in the right way makes your writing easy to
understand and interesting to read.
Sentences and clauses
• A sentence has a capital letter at the beginning and ends with a full stop
(.), a question mark (?) or an exclamation mark (!). It must have a verb in
it and it must make complete sense all on its own.
Note: A simple sentence is called a clause.
• Clauses
• Some sentences can be broken up into smaller sentences. These simple
sentences are called clauses.
eg: She ran down the road but he chose to walk.
• This sentence is made up of two clauses, both of which could work on
their own as simple sentences.
• You can join clauses together using conjunctions to make more
interesting sentences that are much easier to read than lots of short
sentences.
eg: Amy took the dog for a walk. It got very dirty.
eg: Amy took the dog for a walk and it got very dirty.
eg: The dog got very dirty when Amy took it for a walk.
Paragraphs
• A paragraph is a collection of sentences about the same thing.
Collecting your sentences into paragraphs makes your writing
easier to read.
• Start a new line after each paragraph. You may want to leave a
space before you start the next paragraph. Some people like
to start the first line of a new paragraph a little way in from
the edge of the page. This is called an indent.
Phrases
• A phrase is a group of words that could be replaced by a single
part of speech, for example, a noun.
• The big, brown dog had a very loud bark.
• The phrase big, brown dog could be replaced by the
noun dog.
• By using phrases rather than simple nouns or verbs, you can
make your writing more descriptive.
Phrase of the day
• The flu clinic had seen many cases of infectious disease.