Work in pairs. Prepare a conversation on one the topics below

· at the school reunion (Imagine that you are at the school reunion. Ask each other about your jobs, your families and your interests)

· at the medical conference (Imagine that you are attending a medical conference. Talk to each other about your jobs, the conference and the city the conference is organized in)

· at the hospital reception (Imagine that one of you is the receptionist and the other is the patient. The patient asks the receptionist how to get Cardiology).

Work in groups. Answer the questions.

1. Usually in a general hospital there are many departments for different patients. Can you name the most common ones?

2. Do you think that patients generally need to be cared after by only one department or they may need care that involves many of the departments?

3. When admitted to the hospital, you are under the care of a hospital medical team. Which specialists does a hospital team include?

4. Which hospital jobs do you think are the most demanding?

5. Which hospital jobs are always in demand?

6. Which hospital jobs are the most stressful?

7. Which departments would you like to work in?

8. There are many common pieces of equipment and special tools in the hospital. What role does medical equipment play in hospitals?

9. Imagine a hospital without any medical equipment. What would it be?

10. Do you think that as time goes by medical equipment will play even a more important role in making quick and correct decisions?

 

 

VOCABULARY The admissions procedure

1.

Match photos A-F to the words from the box.

Underline the correct option.

TRANSLATION A hospital admission

Translate the story from Russian into English.