Please find below some links the Videos on the Nervous System. The main video this week is fro Pheonix Learning Group and I've included a rapidshare link to an AVI of it.
As noted in class this week, an argumentation / argumentative speech is "a form of persuasive public speaking. The speaker presents a personal opinion, judgment or idea about a controversial and current issue, problem, value or dispute in a way that the opinion of the audience will change in favor of his or her side". [speech-topics-help.com] Argumentative speech ideas are controversial and refer to current political, social, business, religious issues, disputes, policies and values.
speech-topics-help.com/argumentative-speech
edu/communication/Argu-Speech-Outline-Format.pdf
As noted in class this week, Detail Sentences can be defined as sentences which add detail or 'meat' to sentences supporting the topic sentences. Whilst often 'detail sentences' ans 'supporting sentences' are regarded as the same thing or at least types of supporting sentences, there is a good case for treating them a separate type of sentence.
Please find links to the Textbook and Powerpoint for the second half of Unit 5 on the Nervous System.
Please find below a link to the Powerpoint for the Workshop for Week 11which involved amongst others things a review of Future Real & Unreal Conditionals and Euphemisms and an introduction to what will be expected in the 'On The One Hand' activity.
As noted in class this week, the Future Real Conditional "describes what you think you will do in a specific situation in the future" and is "different from other Real Conditional forms because, unlike the present or the past, you do not know what will happen in the future." [Englishpage.com]
As noted in class this week, A euphemism is "a substitution with an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the receiver,[1] or to make it less troublesome for the speaker, as in the case of doublespeak" [Wikipedia]. For example in the case of death and illness one might speak of:
Please find below links to the Textbook and Powerpoint for first half of Unit 5 on the Nervous System.
Please find below some links the Videos on the Urinary System. In addition to our regular video from argosymedical.com I've included links to Youtube links from a number of other sources. The main video this week is fro Greadt Pacific Media and I've included a rapidshare link to an AVI of it.
The song of the Unit is Regina Belle's "If I Could" f I Could", which was first released in 1993 and reached # 9 on the R&B charts.
Please find below a link to the Powerpoint for the Workshop for Week 10 which involved amongst others things a review of Language Chunks and Concluding Sentences and our Song of the Unit, Regina Belle's "If I Could".
As we noticed in class this week, one way it has been suggested you can use to improve your fluency is to learn chunks of language [also known as lexical chunks]. As www.splendid-speaking.com site for example has stated, "while knowing the meaning of a word is useful, knowing how to use it in context is vital."
As noted in the writing section of this week's class, in formal paragraphs, will sometimes see a sentence at the end of the paragraph which summarizes the information that has been presented. This is the concluding sentence. To read more about concluding sentences check out the links below.
If your interested on following up on the conversation between Dr Abdullah and Simon in the Listening acitivity this week about Blue Urine, check out the links to the sites below.As we noted in class, blue urine color is most likely caused by foods you have eaten lately or medications you are taking. Medications and drugs can cause your urine to turn blue, since many of these contain dyes. But there are other causes as well
Please find below links to the Textbook and Powerpoint for the second half of Unit 4 on the Urinary System.
Please find below a link to the Powerpoint for the Workshop for Week 9 which involved amongst others things a review of Present Conditionals and Idioms and an introduction to what will be expected in the 'If I Could' activity.
As noted in the grammar section of class this week, there are two kinds of conditional sentences: real and unreal.
Like many fields Medicine has its own set of idioms that it is worth being aware of not least because your colleagues and patients will sometime use them.
As noted in the Vocabulary section of class this week, Idioms are expressions, words or phrases that have figurative meanings that are septerate from their literal meanings. Idiomatic expressions, words or phrases are commonly used in everyday spoken English as so and well worth becoming acquaited with.
Please find below links to the Textbook and Powerpoint for first half of Unit 4 on the Urinary System.
To try something new try the Word drop games on manythings.org. These games require you to guess a word before it drops from the top of the screen to the bottom. The words are from 4 to 10 letters long. Sometimes the word is not scrambled. If this happens, just double-click any letter to get "free" points.
