Where will you work?

1 WORD POWER Workplaces

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A WHERE WILL YOU WORK? Match the pictures to the words.

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______A drugstore ______A gym ______A health center

______A hospital ______A laboratory ______A nursing home

B WORKPLACES: Match the definitions to the words from the previous
exercise.
1. A____DRUGSTORE_____ is a common American term for a type of retail store centrally

featuring a pharmacy. They sell not only medicines, but also miscellaneous items such as

sweets, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, magazines, and paperback books, as well as light

refreshments.

2. A___________________is a large room that has equipment used for various indoor

sports and usually equipped with apparatus for doing exercise; it also includes spectator

accommodations, locker and shower rooms, offices, classrooms and a swimming pool.

3. A___________________is a clinic staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses.

Typical services covered are family practice and dental care, but some of them have

expanded greatly and can include internal medicine, pediatrics, women’s care, family

planning, pharmacy, lab, and more.

4. A___________________is a health care institution that provides patients medical,

surgical, or psychiatric care and treatment by specialized staff and equipment.

5. A___________________is an equipped room or building that provides and facilitates

controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and

measurement may be performed.

6. A ___________________provides and facilitates a type of residential care. It is a place of

residence for people who require continual nursing care and have significant difficulty
 coping with the required activities of daily living. Residents include the elderly and

younger adults with physical or mental disabilities

7. A___________________is a place that prepares and sells drugs and medicines. It is also

linked to health sciences with chemical sciences and aims to ensure the safe and effective

distribution and use of pharmaceutical drugs.

8. A ___________________is a place where a wide range of health care services (including

diagnostics) can be obtained without the need for an overnight stay. They are sometimes

co-located with a hospital. A typical one of this is an outpatient facility that houses

general medical practitioners to provide ambulatory care and some acute care services

but lacks the major surgical and pre- and post-operative care facilities commonly

associated with hospitals.

9. A ___________________is a place that typically offers various health treatments. They

are also quite popular, and offer various personal care treatments.

C WORD FAMILY: Complete the chart with one of the words in bold
from the previous exercise.

Noun Verb
Facilitation
Provision
Preparation
Accommodate
Inclusion

Adjective Noun Adverb

Chemistry Chemically
Effectiveness Effectively
Popularity Popularly
Surgery Surgically
Technology Technologically
Scientifically
Healthy Healthily

Adjective Noun Verb

Operative/Operational Operation Operate
 Specialization Specialize
Distributional Distribute
Treatable Treat

Adjective Noun Verb Adverb

Difference Differentiate Differently
Medicate Medically
Variety Vary Variously
Measurable Measure Measurably
Experimental Experiment Experimentally

D WORD FAMILY: Complete the statements with one of the words

from the charts above.

1. Advances in medical_____________ mean that people will live longer, have a better

life and be much healthier.

2. Doctors performed an emergency_______________ for an acute peritonitis last night.

3. Doctors usually______________ patients with tranquilizers before giving them

anesthesia.

4. Eating fruit and vegetables as well as exercising are part of a_____________ lifestyle.

5. My mother and father had undergone open-heart_________________ two years ago.

6. The patient’s___________ was much improved after she started eating healthily and

exercising.

7. Hydrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Potassium, and Boron are______________ elements.

8. Medical research has led to better_________________ for diabetes patients.

9. My sister went to University of Toronto in Canada to_____________ in forensic

laboratory.

10. Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Oncology and Obstetrics are branches of__________________.

11. Staying another night in the hospital was not______________ necessary, so she was

discharged.

12. The biotechnology center is on the cutting edge of_____________ research for using

living things, especially cells and bacteria in industrial processes.

 13. The doctors will have to______________ the patient for suspected acute appendicitis.

14. The government is responsible for the_____________ of health care around the

country.

15. Many African hospitals had to______________ several cases of malaria and dengue

last week.

2 GRAMMAR FOCUS
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PARTS OF SPEECH

ADJECTIVES: a word that describes a noun or pronoun.

SpecializedModernExpensiveAcute
DifficultChemicalExcellent Chronic

NOUNS: a word that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance, or quality:
DoctorHospitalThermometerStethoscope
OperationReagentHealth Medication

VERBS: a word or phrase that describes an action, condition, or experience:

OperateTreatCureStay
MedicateTakeSuffer fromHave
ADVERBS: a word that describes or gives more information about another word, esp. a verb,
adjective, or other adverb, or about a phrase:
MedicallyChemicallyScientifically Healthily
 A Check the underlined words in bold and then write their part of
speech.

1. Prenatal clinics provide care for pregnant women. (________________)

2. Rachel is studying to be a pharmacist. (________________)

3. The raw sewage is chemically treated. (________________)

4. Many flu medications are available without a prescription. (________________)

5. A chemist prepares and sells medicines. (________________)

6. Keep healthy by eating well and exercising regularly. (________________)

7. A shampoo that keeps hair looking healthy. (________________)

8. The injured were rushed to hospital in an ambulance. (________________)

9. The victim suffered severe brain damage. (________________)

10. He is not medically qualified to operate open-heart. (________________)

11. Take two Paracetamol and try to sleep. (________________)

12. Once a week I have a sauna and a massage. (________________)

B Choose the correct answer.

1. The form should be signed by a person who is____________ qualified.

a) medical b) medicament c) medically

2. Regular exercise is good for your____________.

a) health b) healthy c) healthily

3. Johnny and his little brother__________ from asthma.

a) suffer b) suffering c) suffered

4. The_____________ industry has tremendously improved.

a) pharmacy b) pharmaceutical c) pharmacist

5. She studied___________ at Northwestern University.

 a) nursery b) nurse c) nursing

C Choose the correct word to make sense. Listen and check.

1 Pharmacy technicians support the work of pharmacists and other health

professionals by performing a [varied – variety] of pharmacy related
functions, including dispensing [prescribed – prescription] drugs and
other [medical – medicine] devices to patients and instructing on their use.
They may also [performance – perform] administrative duties in
[pharmacist – pharmacy] practice, such as reviewing prescription requests
with doctor's offices and [ensure – insurance] companies to ensure [correct – corrective] medications are
provided and [pay – payment] is received.

9 A PhT in the UK is considered a [healthy - health] care professional and often do not work under the
direct [supervise – supervision] of a pharmacist (if employed in a hospital pharmacy) but instead are
supervised and [managed – management] by other senior pharmacy technicians. In the UK the role of a
PhT has grown and [responsible – responsibility] has been passed on to them to [management – manage]
the pharmacy department and [specialized – specialization] areas in pharmacy practice allowing
pharmacists the time to specialize in their expert field as [medical – medication] consultants spending
more time working with patients and in research. A pharmacy technician once [qualified – qualification]
has to register as a [professional – professionalism] on the General [Pharmacist – Pharmacy] Council
(GPhC). The GPhC is the governing body for pharmacy health care professionals and this is who regulates
the practice of pharmacists and [pharmaceutical – pharmacy] technicians.

3 LISTENING Working as a medical tech.

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A WORKING AS A NURSE: Listen and choose the correct answer.

1. What is TRUE? Every day nurses come face to face with…

a) life, death, joy and grief.
 b) life, wealth, joy and grief.
c) life, death, boy and grief.
2. Nurses never quit…
a) working.
b) learning.
c) earning.
3. Nurses will go through at least…pairs of shoes a year.
a) four
b) fourteen
c) fourth
4. Nurses must be in touch with…
a) reality and humility.
b) reality and humiliation.
c) abnormality and humility.
5. What is FALSE? Nurses believe that… are some kinds of medicine.
a) faith, laughter, music and pets
b) faith, daughter, music and pets
c) faith, laughter, music and animals
6. When will nurses cry sometimes?
a) On their way home or to work.
b) On their way home or to study.
c) On their way home or to marry.
7. When will nurses eat anything?
a) During morning shifts.
b) During afternoon shifts.
c) During night shifts.
8. What is TRUE?
a) Nurses must learn to manage their time.
b) Nurses must always wash their hands and eat chocolate.
c) Nurses are always happy when they have a baby?
 4 READING Where will I work as a nurse?
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A Pre-reading: Match the pictures to the phrases.

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a. ______ Working in an emergency room e.______ Working with ethnic communities

b. ______ Working with a high-tech equipment f. ______ Working in public hospitals

c. ______ Working in an operating room g. ______ Working in rural communities

d. ______ Working in post-surgery room h. ______ Working in urban communities

i. ______ Working with adults k. ______ Working with teenagers

j. ______ Working with children l. ______ Working with the elderly

B While-reading: Scan the text and verify your answers from the
previous exercise.

1 Registered nurses work in a broad variety of practice settings:

2 Providing direct care: RNs work in busy intensive care units and in small
neighborhood health clinics. They assess infant and toddler growth and
development and promote healthy child rearing in the country’s rural, urban and
ethnic communities.

6 Providing preventive care: RNs run health and

safety programs (in factories, for example) and they work with children,
teenagers, adults and the elderly.

8 Research: There are registered nurses doing research in all areas of nursing

care.

10 Teaching: RNs teach groups of clients about health care and teach

other nurses about providing care.

12 Administration: RNs participate in the administration of hospitals

and other practice settings. Nurses also work in provincial/territorial or
federal governments.

15 Changes in the health-care system

continue to broaden the opportunities for RNs. Whatever your interest –
working with children, scientific procedures, high-tech equipment, teaching
and promoting healthy practices, developing your management skills –
nursing offers something for you.

19 Most RNs work in the country’s publicly funded system of hospital and
medical care. A minority works in the private sector and a small number of nurses are self-employed.

Here are just some examples of work settings:

In the community: • rehabilitation centers

• sexually transmitted disease units
• health clinics • AIDS hospices
• schools
• wellness programs in the workplace
• doctors’ offices
• care home
• family planning clinics
• poison control centers
• prenatal and well-baby clinics
In a hospital:

• emergency room
• intensive care
• operating room
• post-surgery
• maternity
• cardiovascular
• oncology
• psychiatry
• pediatrics
• palliative
• geriatrics
E Post-reading: Complete the statements with a proper word
from the text.
1. Nurses assess (a)______________ and

(b)______________ growth and

development.

2. Nurses promote healthy child rearing

in rural, (c)____________ and

(d)____________ communities.

3. Nurses provide (e)_______________ and (f)______________ care to patients.

4. Nurses run (g)______________ and (h)______________ programs in factories.

5. Nurses work with children, (i)______________, (j)______________ and the elderly.

F Post-reading: Complete the definitions with a proper word

from the text.
1. _______________ are buildings where a group of doctors see their patients and

where some local medical services have their offices.

2. _______________ is a place where people live and are cared for when they cannot

live at home or look after themselves.

3. _______________ is the branch of medicine concerned with the diseases and care
of old people.
4. _______________ is the branch of medicine concerned with the diseases of infants

and children.

5. _______________ is the branch of medicine concerned with the scientific study of

and treatment of tumors in the body.

6. _______________ is the branch of medicine concerned with the study and

treatment of mental illness.

7. _______________ is the part of a hospital that gives continuous care and

attention, often using special equipment, to people who are very seriously ill or

injured.

8. _______________ is the part of a hospital where people who need urgent

treatment are taken.