What is the coronavirus?

Watch the video and answer the questions. Check your answers in "comments".



1. What is it caused by?
2. What are the symptoms?
3. What are the cases we know about?
4. Where did it come from?
5. How old are the most affected people?
6. Who are those who have died?
7. How is it transmitted?
8. Is there a treatment? Why? / Why not?
9. How serious is this outbreak?
10. What's the death rate?

Integrative Medicine

This is the video for the photocopy I gave you in class. Check your answers in "comments".

HEALTH

Listen and read some sentences related to health.

Do a vocabulary exercise here.

The future of medicine

A. Watch this video and answer the questions (check your answers in "comments").

1. Why are billions of people alive today?
2. What do we have treatments for today?
3. In which fields have there been breathtaking advances?
4. Where did this work originate?
5. Who support this work?
6. What has science made in the last centrury?
7. What kind of future does the speaker imagine?

B. Watch the next video to see how technology is changing the healthcare system.

C. Watch the following video and fill in the gaps (you need between one and three words). Check your answers in "comments".

Robot-assisted surgery

- The Vinci Surgical System is a tool that allows us to do more _______________ (1) surgery through very small incisions.

- Smaller incisions speed _______________ (2).

- The surgeon is always in _______________ (3).

Metro medical glue

- Trauma patients with severe _______________ (4) need help fast and Metro medical glue will stop it in about _______________ (5).

- It can be used both _______________ (6).

- Metro will eliminate the need for stitching, for staples, and will _______________ (7) the procedure

- According to researchers at Harvard and Sydney universities, it's ready for _______________ (8).

The Excel white 3d printed cast system

- It promises _______________ (9) and a quicker recovery. T

- The patient's bone is scanned and a custom _______________ (10) cast is made in about a minute.

- It even has a sensor to monitor the _______________ (11).

- The company says they're close to_______________ (12).

Medical tourism

1. To complete the information click here.
2. To listen to three people talking about it click here.

Nosebleed

Watch the video ‘How to treat a nosebleed’ and complete the gaps. Check your answers in "comments".
Noses can bleed for various reasons:
- a hit in the __________________ or ____________________.
-it can be really _________________________.
You have to call the doctor right away if:
-you suspect _______________ __________________
-if the bleeding is __________________ or _________________ coloured.
If it’s a less serious nosebleed you have to:
 -__________________ the __________________ part of your nose with your thumb and forefinger for___________________ minutes and lean _________________.
-If you lean back the blood can drain down your __________________ and can gag you, make you uncomfortable and you’ll _________________.
-If it’s still bleeding do the same. If after doing it twice more it doesn’t stop, you need to _____________ _________________ about that.
-If you suspect your nose’s been broken because it’s ________________ or it looks _______________, get it checked out.
-Afterwards you can put ice to your nose and ______________ to help with the ________________ and the ____________, but stay away from _______________ because it can make the bleeding worse.
-If you have other symptoms like confusion, _______________ or slurred _________________ or people not _______________ like themselves, especially after head trauma, call your doctor.

How healthy are you?

1. Click here to do a quiz and find out how healthy you are.

2. Click here to watch a video about being healthier. Take notes and check your ideas in the script below.

3. Listen to a podcast about how daily exercise leads to better health. Take notes and check with the script.

4. Click here and find out about your fitness personality.

5. Click here to listen to a short presentation about health and fitness.

HEALTH

Vocabulary:
1. Learn some vocabulary about illnesses and remedies. Listen to the words and look them up in a dictionary if you are not sure about the meaning.
2. Check this website if you want to learn more medical vocabulary. You have the definition and an example.
3. Learn the differences between: injure/ wound / hurt / harm / damage as verbs / adjectives / nouns.

HEALTH NEWS - EXAM PRACTICE

Click here to see the activity.
Click here to listen to it.

VACCINATION PROGRAMMES- EXAM PRACTICE

Click here to do a listening activity about vaccination programmes in less developed countries.

HEALTH AND EXERCISE

Do the activities on this lesson to practise vocabulary and do a reading activity about health.

Click here and do the listening activity. Do also the listening activities on pages 4 and 5.