From the Pheonix Learning Group this video on the circulatory system. As usual, try and test your English comprehension by listening to the video while watching along.
Please find below a link to the Powerpoint for the Workshop for Week 3 which involved amongst others things the second part of the 'Draw Me A Picture' acvtivity..jpg)
Please find below links to Powerpoints for second half of Unit 2 on the Circulatory System.
As you hopefully know, adjectives are words whose main role is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's referent.
Find below a link to the (1) Medical Transcription Advantage Career Center and (2) its Resource Center. Its a bit unclear reading the site what the MTACC is [or was] or what it did [although to would appear to offer (have offered) online medical related courses.
The accent is a bit frightening but, if you want to get an idea of how some of the key vocabulary related to the cardiovascular system is pronounced, go to the page on the MTACC site [see forthcoming post] by following the link below.
The Biology In Motion contains animations, interactive activities, and cartoons that have been designed with the aim to make "learning biology a richer, more engaging experience". 'After years of teaching biology in various colleges and universities', the designer notes that he began 'developing his own graphics and multimedia, mainly for in-class presentation'. 'The many positive responses' he received in turn led him initiate this website.
Check out the simple but effect animation of the basic structure of the Cardiovascular System prepared by
As the Advanced English Grammar website notes, prepositions of time are essential in order to understand / indicate when events occur.
Procedures Consult is, as their website notes, a product from Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of science and health information and publisher of Saunders, Churchill Livingstone and Mosby.
As noted in class this week, Wikipedia have defined medical procedures as: "courses of action intended to achieve a result in the care of persons with health problems". While medical procedures with the intention of determining, measuring or diagnosing a patient condition or parameter, they note, are called 'Diagnostic Procedures' or Medical Test, other common kinds of Procedures are described as being 'Therapeutic' (i.e., with the intention or treating, curing or restoring function or structure), 'Surgical' and Rehabilitation. Find below links to: the Wikipedia page of Medical Procedures which includes links to other pages detailing a whole range of them; the proceduresconsult.com website [for more information see the post below]; and the list of Medical Procedures on the medicinenet.com
[information of which I have posted before].
Links:
Medical Procedures [Wikipedia]
Medical Procedure [proceduresconsult.com]
Medical Procedure [medicinenet.com]
Please find below links to the Powerpoint for the first Lecture for Week 4 which covered the 'Vocabulary' and 'Reading' Sections of Unit 2 which is built around the theme of the Circulatory System.
Please find below links to the Powerpoint for the Lecture Sessions for Week 3 which related to the second half of Unit 1 on the Respiratory System. If for some reason you have not had these lectures yet please wait until you have had them before downloading the file. I have also include links to the "I Have a Headache" Jazz Chant. Please note that if you want this and other Jazz chants please see the posting on Jazz Chants below.
Please find below Rapid Share and Deposit File links to the Powerpoint for Week 2's Workshop which was the first workshop related to the topic of the Respiratory System.
As noted in class o couple of times over the last few weeks, one of the best ways to improve stress and rythms patterns in spoken English is to use Jazz Chants. [Jazz chants being poems that use jazz rhythms to illustrate the natural stress and intonation patterns of conversational American English] In addition, as Miles Craven in his article on Jazz Chnats has noted, because each jazz chant focuses on different vocabulary and grammar, you can also ..review important words and structures!
As noted on the Wikipedia page on the topic, a tongue-twister "...is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly. Tongue-twisters may rely on similar but distinct phonemes (e.g., s [s] and sh [ʃ]), unfamiliar constructs in loanwords, or other features of a language." The hardest tongue-twister in the English Language according to the Guinness World Records, they note, is "The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick."Tongue Twisters can be found in many languages and have been a commonly used tool in English language classes to help students improve their fluency. Given that doctors and other people in the medical professions often need to say quite complex things fairly rapidly [just watch ER, House or any of the other medical related programs of TV to see what I mean] Tongue twisters are especially useful for Medical Students.
Find below a link to the "1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters" web site which claims to have the 's largest collection of tongue twisters. Ive also included direct links to their English and Arabic tongue twister pages..
Links:
1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters [General]
1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters [English]
1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters [Arabic]
Please find below raidshare and deposit file links to what be the final copy of Unit 1 of the textbook for this semester which concerns the Respiratory System. While I plan to make some further adjustments here and there, these adjustments will be for next years' students [i.e. not you].
According to their site, "Argosy Medical's award winning staff has been providing animation and illustration solutions to the educational, pharmaceutical, scientific, consumer product, television, and medical communities for over 15 years." They offer stock and custom medical animations and illustrations as well as customizable 3d interactive medical device solutions using their 'visible body platform].
From argosymedical.com [see the forthcoming posting] comes this 3-D video respresentation of the respiratory system. As usual, try and test your English comprehension by listening to the video while watching along.
The Scoop On Smoking on smoking website was designed by the American Council on Science and Health [ACSH] to "present in a highly accesible, interactive manner, detailed facts about the health consequences of tobacco use". They believed there was a need for the site because "... too teens (and adults) [were] simply told that using tobacco -- particularly smoking cigarettes -- is "dangerous". Even the government-mandated warning label [gave] only a few words of caution -- all in very general terms. But the devil is in the details." The ACSH decided that people needed to 'be given specific details of tobacco's deleterious impact on every site of the body and every organ system. Find below links to the website along with a link to the page on the site that has links to pages that have in formation about the effects that smoking has on the different system within the body including, of course, the respiratory system.
Links:
1. thescooponsmoking.org
2. thescooponsmoking.org/effects
From the Science Museum of Minnesota comes one of the continuing series of animated resources on the human body.
While talking about interactive games using the Powerpoint medium that help you check your medical knowledge, why don't you check out the Powerpoints that have been designed and host by the university of Michigan Medical under the title 'Medical Gross Anatomy Games'
I thought you might be interested in have a look at this Powerpoint which has been put together by the Central School District in New York City to help senior high schools students review words related to respiratory system.
Please find below a copy of the Powerpoint Presentation for Sections 1-3 of Unit 1 of the Textbook - The Respiratory System.
Among the topics we covered this week included:
ESLgold.com gives you the opportunity to practice your English language skills in many ways. If you're a beginner, you can start by checking out our vocabulary pages, where you can see, hear, and say new words in English.Links:
eslgold.com
Some verbs cannot be used in the progressive tenses. They are called non-action verbs.
The present continuous tense (also called the present progressive tense) is commonly used in English for actions happening right now, or in the future.
