CONTENTS // Introduction... 5 // List of Words with Different Spelling in British and American English . 6 // Unit 1: The Human Body... 7 // Reading: The Human Body // Language Focus: The anatomical positions - Locative adjectives, verbs, adverbs and prepositions Listening: Becoming a Doctor // Unit 2: Body Systems... 17 // Reading: Body Systems // Language Focus: Word-Formation: Suffixes // Listening: Musculoskeletal System // Unit 3: Registering with a Doctor... 26 // Reading: Registering with a Doctor // Language Focus: Present Simple - Present Continuous // Listening: Elizabeth Blackwell // Unit 4: Taking a History... 36 // Reading: At the GP’s Surgery // Language Focus: The Imperative - The Future // Listening: Disorders and Methods of Investigations // Unit 5: Examining a Patient... 48 // Listening: At the GP’s Surgery Reading: The Doctor examines Mr Peters Language Focus: Instructions, Commands, Requests - Present Perfect - Present Perfect Continuous // Unit 6: Injuries... 57 // Reading: Types of Wounds Language Focus: Adverbs Listening: Cuts, Abrasions, Bites, and Bruises // Unit 7: Doctor’s Advice... 66 // Reading: Doctor’s Advice // Language Focus: Modal Verbs (Auxiliaries) // Listening: A Doctor-Patient Dialogue // Unit 8: Medicine in the Past... 74 // Reading: From the History of Medicine Language Focus: Past Simple - Past Continuous Listening: Medical Sciences // Unit 9: Medical Institutions... 84 // Reading: Major Medical Institutions // Language Focus: Word-Formation
- Compound Nouns - Past Perfect Listening: From the History of Hospitals // Unit 10: Being a Nurse... 93 // Reading: An Interview with a Nurse Listening: An Interview with a Nurse Language Focus: Adjectives Supplementary Reading: Florence Nightingale // 3 // Unit 11: Accidents... 103 // Reading: Accidents Language Focus: Passive Voice Listening: The Shock // Unit 12: Common Diseases... 112 // Reading: Minor Ailments // Language Focus: Should/Ought to - Time Clauses - The Infinitive Listening: Pain // Unit 13: Infectious Diseases... 121 // Reading: Children’s Illnesses // Language Focus: Conditional Clauses - The Infinitive and the Gerund Listening: Child Health Care // Unit 14: The CeU... 131 // Reading: Cells: The Basic Units of Life Language Focus: Irregular Plural - Word Formation -Listening: The Cell Cycle // Unit 15: Human Development... 142 // Reading: Human Development Language Focus: Final Clauses Listening: Significance of Embryology Supplementary Reading: What sort of child you were? // Unit 16: Body Fluids... 151 // Reading: Blood and Lymph Language Focus: Compound Adjectives Listening: Blood Groups // Unit 17: The Cardiovascular System ... 162 // Reading: The Heart and Blood Circulation -Language Focus: Relative Clauses - Modifiers Listening: Taking the Blood Pressure // Unit 18: Heart Disorders... 172 // Reading: Understanding Your Angina Language Focus: The Gerund Listening: Circulatory Disorders // Unit 19: The Nervous System... 180 // Reading: The Effects of Aging
on the Nervous System Language Focus: Negative Prefixes Listening: suggested (Using Your Brain) // Unit 20: Sleep... 188 // Reading: Sleep - The Biology of Sleep // Language Focus: Expressing (un)certainty, possibility ... // Listening: suggested (Sleep and Dreams) // Vocabulary... 196 // List of Irregular Verbs... 219 // Key... 221 // Bibliography... 250 // 4