Unit -3Lesson - 3

A nursing career

By the end of the session, trainees will be able to - understand a text about the roles of a nurse describe positive and negative aspects of professions use vocabulary related to health care with confidence use –ed and –ing forms of adjectives with confidence

Learning outcomes:

A. Reading comprehension: A nursing career

Think yourself what things that nurses do .

Things that

nurses do

Read the article about Miamuna’scareer and choose the correct adjective to complete the gaps.

Read the text again and choose the correct answer to these questions.1. Why did Miamuna decide to become a nurse?a. Because she had good memories of nurses from her childhoodb. Because she thought it would be a well-paid jobc. Because she wanted to develop a career in hospital management.2. According to Miamuna, what can nurses do to reduce their patients’ stress?a. They should be very quiet in the hospital wardsb. They should try to be cheerful and friendlyc. They should do some of the doctor’s jobs.3. What problem did Miamuna have as a child?a. She had a fear of doctors.b. She had a problem with her back.c. She had a serious disease.4. What does Miamuna enjoy most about her job?a. She likes listening to the doctors talk about the patients.b. She enjoys the physical exercise and hard work.c. She likes the social contact and the feeling that she is helpingpeople.

Key: 1a, 2b, 3b, 4c

Look at the text again and find a word or phrase in bold to match these definitions.1. say bad things about complain2. generally happy _________3. suggest as a good thing to do _________4. take care of _________5. profession or job _________6. an act of surgery, cutting open the patient _________7. thoughtful and not joking _________8. people you work with _________9. room in a hospital _________10. talk informally _________

C: Vocabulary

Key: 1 complain, 2 cheerful, 3 recommend, 4 look after, 5 career, 6 operation, 7 serious, 8 colleagues, 9 ward 10. Chat

Look at these examples from the text.1. Nurses often feel very tired at the end of the day.2. A nurse’s job can be very tiring.Now complete these questions to ask your partner.1. Are you [ interested / interesting ] in listening to other people’s stories?2. What is the most [ exciting / excited ] thing you’ve ever done?3. When you were a child, what were you [ frightened / frightening ] of?4. What part of your jobs makes you feel [ tired / tiring]?5. What is the most [ interested / interesting ] thing about your job?

D. Language Focus and speaking: -ed and -ing adjectives

Key: 1 interested, 2 exciting, 3 frightened, 4 tired, 5 interesting

E. PronunciationPut the words into the correct columns.absolutely unexciting profession excited cheerful physical

Key: First syllable stressed: exercise, physical, cheerful, 2nd syllable stressed:exciting, profession, excited, 3rd syllable stressed: operation, absolutely, unexciting

Now complete these sentences with the correct word.1. I watched a fascinating / fascinated programme about birds yesterday.2. I thought the football match was quite boring / bored.3. Saba has a very tiring / tired job.4. I feel very exciting / excited about the party next week.5. I am very interesting / interested in keeping fit.

Compare the use of adjectives in these pairs of sentences.It’s a very interesting book. I am interested in the subject.I was bored in the maths lesson. The teacher was boring.The story of the film was very exciting. I felt excited.

Key: 1 fascinating, 2 boring, 3 tiring, 4 excited, 5 interested