学术英语 医学
Academic English for Medicine
Unit 6
Life and Medicine
Death is an unavoidable and natural part of the life cycle. Medical advances and value changes have increased and acceptability of palliative care and hospice care, which can be provided to critically ill patients at home, hospitals or nursing homes.
• If you fail to figure out the meaning of an important word, just move on and listen attentively to the speaker. Never let any new word distract your attention from the talk.
• I was on d kidney transplant.
• 在进行首次肾移植之前，我做了 7 年的透析。
Unit 6 Life and Medicine
Unit 6 Life and Medicine
Listening
• Dealing with unfamiliar words • Suggested answers
Unit 6 Life and Medicine
Listening
Dealing with unfamiliar words
• If the words don’t hinder your understanding of the major points, just skip them over.
Unit 6 Life and Medicine
Text A
• Critical reading and thinking – Topics for presentation – Useful expressions
• Language building-up – Signpost language – Vocabulary test
• Use contextual information, common sense, and background information to guess the word meaning. Sometimes, the speaker might use paraphrase or definition to explain the new term.
Unit 6 Life and Medicine
Listening
Suggested answers
Task 1 Listen to a talk and complete the sentences according to what you heard.
1. Ayurveda is _a_n_a_n_c_i_e_n_t _sy_s_t_e_m__o_f _h_e_a_li_n_g that’s over five thousand years old.
of the pairing of the great elements.
Unit 6 Life and Medicine
Listening
Suggested answers
Task 2 Listen to the talk again and complete the following diagram.
Unit 6 Life and Medicine
Lead-in
Task
• How much do you know about hospice care palliative care comfort care management care
• Watch the video clip and see how hospice care is defined. Hospice philosophy of death
2. The Sanskrit root “ayur-”means_h_a_v_i_n_g_t_o_d_o__w_it_h_l_if_e_o_r_l_iv_in_g_. 3. The Sanskrit root “veda-”means__w_is_d_o_m__o_r_k_n_o_w_l_e_d_g_e_. 4. Bhuta is the Sanskrit word for__e_le_m__e_n_t _. 5. Doshas are __b_io_e_n_e_r_g_e_ti_c_s_f_o_rc_e_s__,which are actually the result
Cosmos
Space
Air
Fire Water Earth
Vata
Pitta
Kapha
Unit 6 Life and Medicine
Unit Contents
Lead-in Text A Text B Text C Listening Speaking
Writing Get reading for Unit 7
• Suggested answers
• Congestive: hyperemic • Disinfect: 除去（感染），给…消毒
• Chlorine is used to disinfect water.
– 氯用来给水消毒。
• Palliate: to palliate a disease
• Dialysis or kidney dialysis is a method of treating kidney failure by using a machine to remove waste material from the kidneys. 透析，渗析