equipment that may be needed so

ENGLISH FOR that there will be no delay or

unnecessary noise when the patient
NURSE arrives. The night nurse realizes that
the symptom of lower abdominal
2. READING UNIT pain without any other information
could mean a variety of conditions.
A. THERESIA WAS ADMITTED WITH AN The doctor arrives and Christ is
ACUTE PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE asked to sit in the waiting room
while his wife is examined.
Thresia was admitted to the
When the doctor has completed
Gynaecology ward at 2 a.m. she had
talking a history and doing a
been feeling unwell and had
physical examination he diagnoses
experienced lower abdominal pain
Thresia’s pain as the result of an
for several days, but on this day the
acute pelvic inflammatory disease.
pain had become gradually worse
The senior doctor on duty will be
until by 11 p.m. she was in severe
asked to confirm this diagnosis.
pain and very frightened. Christ, her
husband, persuaded her that they
should telephone their G.P. and he
B. QUESTIONS
came to see her at half past
midnight. He took Thresia’s
1. Was Thresia feverish ?
temperature which was raised, and
2. Did she have a stomachache ?
discussed her symptoms with her,
3. Who suggested to her to go to
and then thought she ought to go to
hospital ?
hospital to be observed and
4. Has the diagnosis of her
examined.
abdominal pain been confirmed?
Thresia was upset, but as the pain
was still severe and she was very
worried, she agreed to go. Christ
C. GRAMMATICAL REVIEW
quickly gathered together some of
the things that she might need in
Past Perfect Contiunous Tense
hospital, while the G.P. organized an
Had + been + Verb + ing
ambulance and talked to the doctor
1. She had been feeling unwell for
on duty at the hospital.
several days.
In the darkened quite ward, the
night nurse receives the message
2. They had been watching TV for 2
that a patient is coming in with
hours when I came
severe lower abdominal pain. She
goes quickly to a single empty room Past Perfect Tense
and prepares it, collecting Had + Past Participle
1. She had experienced lower 2. she had experienced lower
abdominal pain for several days. abdominal pain /
Breathing difficulties/low back
2. the pain had become gradully pain/lassitude
worse. For several days.

3. the General pracitioner took her

D. NOUN - ADJECTIVE temperature /
Blood pressure/pilse/baseline
Abdomen - abdominal – perut observation
Vessel - vescular - pembuluh
darah

Cerebrum - carebral – otak

Nerve - nervous –saraf

Inflammation- inflammatory –
radang

Ventricle - venrticular –bilik jantung

Pelvis - pelvic –pinggul

Anemia - anemic –pucet karna

kurang kadar hemoglobin

Cyanosis - cyanotic –kebiruan

(kulit/selaput lendir)

E. SUBSTITUTION DRILLS

1. Theresia was admitted to/

Taken to / discharged from/
transferred to
The gynaecology ward at 2 a.m