Module 6: Use of English in Healthcare (Ext)

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In Module 6, you will

  1. Use the right tone and intonation for different conversations
  2. Instruct, reassure, suggest, caution, encourage and advise
  3. Restate and rephrase information
  4. Confirm understanding

Vocabulary overview:

  • medications
  • procedures
  • tests

Grammar overview:

  • prepositions of time
  • adverbs of time
  • modal verbs
  • imperative
  • function of language (informing, suggesting, warning, and more)

Speaking focus:

  • tone
  • intonation and word stress
  • pronunciation

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:

  • take blood
  • do a biopsy
  • drain an abscess

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

Examples of tying sounds together:

  • insert a needle = in-serta-nee-dul
  • set up an IV = seh–tup-pan-I-V

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

 

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