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• This is a book for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) aimed at developing English language skills for medical students
• A key purpose it to improve student's academic skills in line with the medical subjects they will be taught
• Units begin with pre-reading sections using student's existing knowledge
• Vocabulary building reinforces word comprehension
• The reading excerpts are authentic materials pulled from medical or science textbooks
• Academic strategies like skimming and scanning are covered
• Exercises help students understand descriptive, defining, and classification based writing

Unit 1: Why Exercise Is Good for You?

• Includes vocabulary building, context clues, reading skills and word study
• Vocabulary building assists students in finding meanings of underlined words in sentences
• Reading skills talks about skimming a text, and the steps involved

Benefits of Exercise

• Research shows that exercise guards the heart
• Exercise improves the hearts ability to pump so it pumps more blood with each beat
• Improves endurance capacity allowing you walk, swim, and bike farther
• Lowers blood pressure associated with heart disease
• Burns fat, controls weight, lowers harmful cholesterol, and raises good cholesterol
• Those physically active are less susceptible to type II diabetes
• Exercise can help improve bone strength
• Exercise helps build up the bones to protect against fractures

Reading Comprehension

• Includes true or false statements with an option of indicating if there exists not enough information in the text

Vocabulary

• Involves finding in the text words that match antonyms or are closest to the meaning of an expression. Paragraphs are labelled for convenience

Scanning

• A technique to find specific piece of information
• It involves being clear on what is required, determining the form it will take (number proper noun etc), reading fast and ignoring irrelevant material

Word Study

• Suffixes change the meaning of an English word, commonly from noun to adjective
• Examples listed include suffixes like ion, ate, fy, en, ity etc

Reading the Present Simple

• The present simple is used to indicate something is true or a repeated action

Unit 2: Disease and Microbes

• Discusses the reasons of diseases and how to prevent them
• The main idea from skimming is microbes such as bacteria, viruses, protozoans, and fungi are small and cause disease

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• States that disease is abnormal functioning of a body part with many different causes
• Disease can result from poor nutrition, hormone issues or microbes

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• Microbes are living organisms that can only be seen with a microscope
• Pathogen is a term to describe microbes that causes disease

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• Some viruses also cause diseases.
• A virus can grow inside a cell and can live in a single human cell
• Viruses gain nourishment from another organism and cause the common cold and respiratory diseases,

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• Protozoans can cause sleeping sickness, malaria and amoebic dysentery
• A protozoan is a unicellular organism with a cell membrane but no cell wall

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• Very few fungi are parasites of humans: ringworm and athlete’s foot

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• Microbes are carried by various things. A person that carries disease microbes is called a carrier.
• Disease prevention is the control of carriers (flies, mosquitoes, and other insects
• Examples of carriers include clothing, bedding, handkerchief, knives forks, and spoons.

Reading Comprehension

• Questions are answered with information gained from context
• Questions include things like the causes of diseases, the effects of disease, the spread of disease

Vocabulary

• Focuses on matching terms provided with their descriptions

Synonyms and Antonyms

• Focuses on matching or finding the opposite meanings of words

Nouns: Countable and Uncountable

• Defines them and gives multiple examples for practice and context

Generalization

• Singular nouns need to be "a" or "an", while plural nouns don't have a prefix
• Questions are answered by understanding what a word contains

Word Study

• Most English words have a prefix, root and suffix
• A suffix comes at the word and changes it, while a root sits at the beginning

Prefixes

• Prefixes can act as a negative to make words, or describe time, location, and order
• Includes study questions where the student applies their knowledge of them

Definitions

• Focuses on single sentence definitions where the following is included
• Defined Term
• Class of that Term
• Specification for that Term

Adjective Clauses

• The meaning of adjective clauses are studied

Unit 3: Definition and Usage of Drugs

• Drugs are medicines substance that can modify the functions of living thing
• There are thousand the many kinds of drugs available over the counter and does not need prescription
• prescription is a document that gives directions for compounding dispensing, gives it to the patient

Reading Comprehension

• asks for the student to give in the text a definition of terms and identify their term, class description
• To find in the text the answers to questions such as how drugs are named, what is chemical name, and generic names plus some of their forms

Text based questions include

• How to correct fill in the blank questions with the correct answers
• Complete the table with the kind and medical usages of drugs

Branches of science and medicine

• To learn parts of words, roots, prefixes to make it easier to understand the meaning of technical terms

Adjective vs adverbs

• To properly utilize them find them in the context of the readings and underlining the nouns they describe or identifying adjectives that come after the verb to be.

The Past Simple and Present Perfect Tenses

• Includes a section on understanding and applying the past simple or present perfect tense

Unit Four: The Human Body

• Describes the structure of the human body

Vocabulary Building

• Finding the meaning of all words described in the text
• It studies the definition of terms to ensure that medical roots and to study the meaning to create new words by adding suffixes to it, to give medical definitions.

Classifications for Medicine

• To identify the classification and diagrams that can be used for the right understanding.

The Passive Voice

• An emphasis on following the sentence structure rules for passive voice.
• Follow with exercises on correct passive sentences.

Writing

• Classify your topic properly and divide the subject into main divisions which has sub-topic.

Unit Five: Teeth and Gums

• Studies the teeth and their importance, including pre-reading questions

Vocabulary building

• Context clues help understanding of underlined words

Tooth Decay

• Looks at the causes, dental plaque and symptoms

What Can Happen and What Should Be Done

• What are the risks and how can they be treat

Size shape color and taste

• To better understand this a section is given to describe the shape of material and items

Word Study,

• Including pre-fixes and suffixes, to be better able read and write with scientific and medical terms

Unit Six: Respiration

• The process through which cells receive oxygen, obtain energy and release carbon-dioxcide
• Studies prepositions in the right location to better understand where to use them and have an illustrative guide.
• A guide provides an instruction to describing it and then with the correct definition of it. This allows and exercises writing skills and communication.

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