Showing posts with label Workshop Extra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Workshop Extra. Show all posts

Friday, 13 May 2011

Workshop Extra:Audio Units 6-8

Find attached the audio files from units 6 to 8 of the Workbook. I will post pdf's of the Students book Powerpoints as soon as possible and then will post the Powerpoints themselves later in the week.

Links:
Audio Workbook Unit 6
Audio Workbook Unit 7
Audio Workbook Unit 8

Saturday, 25 December 2010

English in Medicine 1: Pratical ExtraUnit 8: Artificial Passenger

Artificial Passenger, the device mentioned in this weeks Practical classes is a real machine.

It is a telematic device developed by IBM that interacts verbally to reduce the likelihood of a vehicle operator falling asleep at the controls. The Artificial Passenger is equipped to engage a vehicle operator by carrying on conversations, playing verbal games, controlling the vehicle's stereo system, and so on. It also monitors the driver's speech patterns to detect fatigue, and in response can suggest that the driver take a break or get some sleep.

Links:
wikipedia.org
scribd.com

youtube.com

Friday, 5 November 2010

English in Medicine 1:Workshop ExtraWeek 6 / Unit 5 :Brands

One of the subjects focused on in this week's English for Medicine: 1 Workshops was Brands. As the citation on wikipedia.com notes, a brand is "the identity of a specific product, service, or business".

A brand, they note, "can take many forms, including a name, sign, symbol, color combination or slogan. The word brand began simply as a way to tell one person's cattle from another by means of a hot iron stamp. A legally protected brand name is called a trademark. The word brand has continued to evolve to encompass identity - it affects the personality of a product, company or service."

If you would like to read more about brands and even do some online quizzes, follow the links below.

Links:
wikipedia.com
buzzle.com
guessthelogo.com
playfreeonlinegames.eu

Thursday, 28 October 2010

English in Medicine 1:Workshop ExtraWeek 5 / Unit4 :Sealand

Sealand, the place mentioned in the first activities of this weeks Practical classes is a real place.

The Principality of Sealand, as it is formally known, an unrecognized micronation, located on HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea 10 km (six miles) off the coast of Suffolk, England (51°53'40"N, 1°28'57"E). See here.

If you'd like to read more about Sealand and Roy Bates, you can check out the links below to the Wikipedia entry on the place; Sealand's own Website; and a picture gallery hosted by the fruitsofthesea.demon.co.uk website.

Links
Sealand [Wikipedia]
Sealand [Website]
Sealand [Picture Gallery]

Thursday, 21 October 2010

English in Medince 1:Workshop Extra:Restaurant Menus

One of the exercises this week ask you to think of some of the other items you might find on the menus of the five restaurants in the activity [ie. L.A. Experience; Rene's Place, Gaucho Garden, White Tower & Dragon Eyes].

If you had trouble doing this exercise have a look at links to the menus below for some similiar types of restaurants:

Links:
Taj Indian Restaurant
Demuths Vegetarian Restaurant
Mai Thai Restaurant
Pampas Argentine Grill
A & W Fast Food Restaurants

Friday, 7 May 2010

Workshop Extra:If I Could [Regina Belle)

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.

Find below links to the Cloze Exercise Handout for the Song; the lyrics; and the Youtube.com video of the song;

Links:
Cloze Handout: If I Could [Regina Belle)
Lyrics: If I Could [Regina Belle)
Youtube. Video: If I Could [Regina Belle)
Avi: Video: If I Could [Regina Belle)

Saturday, 19 December 2009

Workshop Extra:Medical Tests

As you will have noticed, there are references in this weeks Workshop / Practical Classes to a series of medical tests - some of which you may not have heard of. Find below some links to in formation about some of these tests. I'll post some more later in the week

p.s. sorry about the cartoon to the left but it is directly related to this weeks topic. A DRE by the way is a digital (finger) rectal examination.

Links:
Barium Meal; X-Ray examinations; Creatinine; ECG (electrocardiogram); IVP (intravenous pyelogram); MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging); Radioisotope; Serum cholesterol; Serum thyroxine; Urea & Electrolytes Test; Uric acid test; Urinalysis

Friday, 23 October 2009

Workshop Extra:Common Medical Abbreviations

As a followup to the discussion on common medical abbreviations in this week's English Workshop/Practical, you can check out the guide to 'Common Medical Abbreviations' on the Clinician's Ultimate Reference site.

As the Wikipedia entry on the subject notes, Abbreviations are used very frequently in medicine. They boost efficiency as long as they are used intelligently. The advantages of brevity should be weighed against the possibilities of crypticness (making the communication harder for others to understand) and ambiguity (having more than one possible interpretation). In other words, a smart communicator uses good shortcuts, but makes sure that other people will understand what he means. Certain medical abbreviations should be avoided to prevent mistakes.

Link:

Common Medical Abbreviations