UNIT 7 _MEDICAL ISSUES

M.SC. HEBER F. ALDAZOSA RUIZ

MASTER IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEFL
 CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND

• What is difference between a disease and an illness?

• When having health problems where do you often go?
• What are the most common diseases or illnesses in the place you
live?
• Does government promote other types of medicine (herbal
medicine, holistic medice, etc)?
• What do you think people should consider before going to the
doctor?
• What can you tell about you’re the medical healthcare system in
your country?
• In your point if view how the medical healthcare system should be?
MEDICAL SYSTEM AROUND THE WORLD
LISTENING POST ACTIVITY

• What happened with the healthcare system around the world?

• Which countries are highlighted to provide the best healthcare
system to their citizens?
• How do these countries manage their incomes to provide the best
healthcare system?
• In which countries the healthcare system is compulsory
/mandatory and free ?
• Which country offers a free healthcare system to all their citizens
no matter their citizenship or other migratory details?
• Which country has the highest life expectancy and why?
VOCABULARY
CURES AND TREATMENT
 HOLISTIC MEDICINE

• What do you know about the term Holistic?

• How Holistic Medicine could help people’s
lives?
• What are the practices Holistic Medicine
include?
• Does this type of medicine benefit illnesses and
sicknesses treatment?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpPMDE
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SUGGESTION

• Considering the information presented on the

previous video, provide specific treatment and
holistic medicine used to stop the following
health problem.
• Allergies.
• Colds and Flu.
• Conjunctivitis ("pink eye“)
• Diarrhea / stomachache.
• Headaches / dizzines.
• Sore throat/ burn/ stress .
• High blood preasure / heart attacks.
 READING ASSIGNMENT

• Go to your schoology account

• Work with the reading assignment opened.
• You are given 15 minutes to read the
information on the reading and answer the
questions given.
• This assignment is graded in the reading
section.
• After reading the text you have to go back to
the main session and work with the second
activity.
 WRITING AN ESSAY
• Contrasting the information shown related to Holistic Medicine and
The one presented on schoology assignment:
• Write an descriptive, argumentative or cause and effect essay in
which you consider:
• A. How beneficial this type of medicine has become in our days?
• B. What would be the possible risk of using it to treat our illnesses or
diseases?
• C. Which one do you think might be the best one to solve our health
problems in our context?
Choose one of these three concepts and write a 350 words essay.
Upload your essay on padlet page in pdf format.
You are given 30 min to do this. (this assignment will be graded in groups)