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Health and Medicine

Before You Read

What are at least two differences between western and eastern medicine?

Have you ever used plants as medicine? What was it for? Did it help?

Are there any traditional treatments for health problems

in your country? What are they?

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After You Read

Why do some people say that eastern medicine is better than western medicine?

Why do others believe that western medicine is better?

Which does your family use more, traditional (eastern)

or conventional (western) treatments? Why?

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Grammar Focus

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Sentence Structure

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Composition Skills

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What did I learn?

1. Now I know high-level vocabulary to write about health and medicine.

2. Now I can use the present perfect tense to describe past action and
experiences.
3. Now I know interesting linking words for cause, effect, solution and
conclusion.
4. Now I know how to organize notes when I am doing research.
5. Now I know how to write a clear thesis statement.
6. Now I can write a problem – solution essay.

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