Week 4 Tutorial (Language Lab.

A. Expected Learning Outcomes of the Lesson

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

 Apply the basic concepts of syllables and stress to pronouncing medical and health care terms
 Be able to identify and pronounce the uncommon sounds as well as soft and hard sounds often
found in medical and health care terms

B. Suggested Learning Activities for Tutorial 4

 Assignment Sheet for Mini-Presentation
 List of Uncommon Sounds
 List of Soft and Hard Sounds
 Medical and health care terms – List A: Mini-Presentation (by lecturer)

C. Supplementary Learning Activities

 Exercise: Pronunciation of Medical and Health Care Terminology (Worksheet 4)

D. Useful Resources
Useful references for checking pronunciation of medial and health care terms:
 Dirckx, John H. (ed.). Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions.
Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (latest ed.). (CD-ROM with pronunciation of
entries)
 Merriam-Webster Online: http://www.m-w.com (medical dictionary with pronunciation
demonstrated)

Other useful online resources:

 The Free Dictionary by Farlex: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
 “Phonetics – the sounds of spoken language” – American English. The University of Iowa:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#
 Pronunciation Page, Centre for Independent Language Learning, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University. http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/pronunci.htm

CC2040 Eng lish for A cademic Studies (Health Care) – Stud y Gu id e