In Module 4, you will

1. Explain provisional and differential diagnoses
2. Describe test purpose and procedure
3. Discuss treatments available and their effects
4. Inform, reassure and warn about outcomes

Vocabulary overview:

• kinds of tests
• test equipment
• common verbs in medical procedures

Grammar overview:

• verb+noun collocations
• simple future (will / going to)
• active and passive voice
• conditional 0 and 1
• conditionals with modal verb

FLUENCY with important speaking patterns:

Speaking aloud common word groups (sometimes called collocations) helps you speak more smoothly and naturally.

In this module, these groups of words (collocations) are underlined. Examples of common collocations:

• rule out diabetes (an illness)
• sounds like an allergy (a diagnosis)
• suggests that you have (+ diagnosis)

English speakers tie words together so the end of one word runs into the start of the next.

Examples of tying sounds together:

• rule out = rul’out
• sounds likes = souns’like

Practice saying word groups aloud, running them together until they flow as one expression.

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