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Time Table

medicineenglish — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:50:03 +0000

The aim of this time table is to give you information about the aims of the activities, the tasks and the due dates.

Aim	Task	Due Date
To understand Present simple	Watch the video and write a commed about it	April 5th
To learn about the skeletal system	Watch a video and write a commed about it	April 12th
To understand how the human Herat Works	First read the text about the human heart and watch the video; second write a summary based on the previous activities; third take the quiz about the human heat.	April 19th
To practice reading skills and learn vocabulary and expressions	Click on the California Adult Activities link and choose one of the stories, then make a mind map of the activity	April 26th
To learn the most frquent nouns, verbs and adjectives	Learn this vocabulary and be prepared for a quiz	May 3rd
To practice listening skills	Watch the video the skeletal system and write a summary of it. Make groups of four students following the order of the list. For example from number 1 to 4 translates the first four minutes; numbers from 5 to 8 translate from minute 5 to 8 and so on….	May 10th
To write a short composition about your daily activities	Watch the video and write a short composition ( two paragraphs) about your daily activities	May 17th
		May 24th
		May 31st
		June 2nd
		June 9

THE PRESENT SIMPLE

medicineenglish — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:24:10 +0000

Watch the video and answer the questions from the character in the video.

Now watch this other video and write a composition about your daily activities.

California Adult Learning Activities

medicineenglish — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:05:09 +0000

California Adult Leraning Activities: Health and Safety

Story List

Click on the name of the story you want to read, or pick another topic. Stories with a have a video to watch.

The Human Heart

medicineenglish — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:31:23 +0000

Read this text and watch a video ask 10 questions about both of them.

In the human body, the heart is usually situated in the middle of ththorax with the largest part of the heart slightly offset to the left (although sometimes it is on the right, see dextrocardia), underneath the breastbone (see diagrams). The heart is usually felt to be on the left side because the left heart (left ventricle) is stronger (it pumps to all body parts). The left lung is smaller than the right lung because the heart occupies more of the left hemithorax. The heart is enclosed by a sac known as the pericardium and is surrounded by the lungs. The pericardium comprises two parts: the fibrous pericardium, made of dense fibrous connective tissue; and a double membrane structure containing a serous fluid to reduce friction during heart contractions (the serous pericardium). The mediastinum, a subdivision of the thoracic cavity, is the name of the heart cavity.

The apex is the blunt point situated in an inferior (pointing down and left) direction. A stethoscope can be placed directly over the apex so that the beats can be counted. It is located posterior to the 5th intercostal space in the left mid-clavicular line. In normal adults, the mass of the heart is 250-350 g (9-12 oz), or about three quarters the size of a clenched fist, but extremely diseased hearts can be up to 1000 g (2 lb) in mass due to hypertrophy. It consists of four chambers, the two upper atria (singular: atrium ) and the two lower ventricles.

Functioning

The function of the right side of the heart (see right heart) is to collect de-oxygenated blood, in the right atrium, from the body and pump it, via the right ventricle, into the lungs (pulmonary circulation) so that carbon dioxide can be dropped off and oxygen picked up (gas exchange). This happens through the passive process of diffusion. The left side (see left heart) collects oxygenated blood from the lungs into the left atrium. From the left atrium the blood moves to the left ventricle which pumps it out to the body. On both sides, the lower ventricles are thicker and stronger than the upper atria. The muscle wall surrounding the left ventricle is thicker than the wall surrounding the right ventricle due to the higher force needed to pump the blood through the systemic circulation.

Starting in the right atrium, the blood flows through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle. Here it is pumped out the pulmonary semilunar valve and travels through the pulmonary artery to the lungs. From there, blood flows back through the pulmonary vein to the left atrium. It then travels through the mitral valve to the left ventricle, from where it is pumped through the aortic semilunar valve to the aorta. The aorta forks, and the blood is divided between major arteries which supply the upper and lower body. The blood travels in the arteries to the smaller arterioles, then finally to the tiny capillaries which feed each cell. The (relatively) deoxygenated blood then travels to the venules, which coalesce into veins, then to the inferior and superior venae cavae and finally back to the right atrium where the process began.

Take the following heart quizzes on the following links:

The Human HeartQuiz 1

The Human Heart quiz 2

If you want to explore more go to this link: The heart

Each Heart Beat

medicineenglish — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:46:08 +0000

Watch the following video and write a summary of it

Watch the following video and write mindmap about the human heart.

Click on the following link: the human heart

Human Anatomy on Line

medicineenglish — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:48:49 +0000

This webpage is going to help you learn human anatomy in a funnyway. Here you are going to learn how to name the different parts of the boby:

Human Anatomy on Line

Study the Skeletal system in the previous link.
Now watch the video in pairs and make a summary from it.

The Skelletal System

Improving Listening, Reading and Vocabulary

medicineenglish — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:19:21 +0000

The following webpage is designed to improve your reading, listening and vocabulary skills in the English language. It has readings on different topics: working, law and government, family, school, health and safety, housing, money, science and technology, services, going places and nature. It has readings, listening, vocabulary, pronunciation, videos, quizzes and compostions tasks.

Due to the fact that you are studying medicine, you should do all the activities concerning health and safety, however you can aslo explores the of the topics.

Click on the following link and start your journey:

California Adult Learning Activities

Start your readings with this topic:

911 Calls

Do the activities as follow:

Basic Story | Full Story | Video | Activities

The Present Simple

medicineenglish — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:29:38 +0000

Watch the following videos and learn how to use the present simple tense

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmHgSh9UFfE]

Go to the following link and do exercises on present simple:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/welcome/

Present Simple

Tertiary studies – time management

medicineenglish — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:10:54 +0000

This text is going to help you how to manage your time successfully.

Reading strategy

Cognates are words which are similar in their written form or in their pronunciation in Spanish and English for example: international, paper, interesting are similar in both languages so you don’t need a dictionary to understand them.

Underline the word which are similar in English and Spanish, then try to create relationships among them to have a general idea about the text.

You can also listen the article by clicking on the red box on your right to practice your listening and pronunciation

Read the following article:Tertiary studies – time management

Tertiary studies – time management

Time management is an essential skill for all tertiary students. Managing your time will help you to cope with the pressures of study. Self-help strategies and student support services on campus can be used to help you get organised and keep on top of your studies.

Get organised
Getting organised and keeping on top of study commitments is an ongoing challenge for all university students, whether they are doing higher education (HE) or technical and further education (TAFE) studies.

If you’ve just left school, you will find yourself in a much less structured environment. You may, on the one hand, have more free time but you also need to develop independent study habits. Many students need to organise their study time around work commitments and, depending on your circumstances, you’ll need to carefully allocate your time to juggle family commitments as well.

Time management is an essential skill to help you to get organised and cope with the stress associated with study. Self-help materials such as quizzes and activities can be used to improve time-management strategies, and advice can be sought from on-campus student support services.

Time management – consider the alternatives
If you are unsure about the value of time management and how it can make a difference to your stress levels, consider what may happen. If you don’t manage your time, you may:

Feel overwhelmed by the demands and details of study and life in general
Be listless and use up hours in non-productive activity
Have little time for rest, relaxation or personal relationships
Miss deadlines, rely on extensions or lose marks because work is submitted late or not handed in
Be indecisive about when tasks should be done
Rush to finish tasks and get to places on time or generally spend a lot of time just trying to beat the clock.

Planning is essential
Planning is the key to getting organised and you should start right from the beginning of the semester. The skills you gain from learning to manage your time will always be useful to you as a student, but can also assist in other aspects of your day-to-day life.

Tips to manage your time include:

Develop the habit of listing your tasks and putting them in order of priority, which means you attend to the urgent tasks first. You might use headings like ‘must do’ and ‘wish to do’, or number them in order. Tick them off when completed.
Make short, medium and long-term plans. For example, write study schedules for the day, the week, the term and the year.
Get yourself a yearly planner or calendar. Keep it handy in your study area so that you can see it at a glance. Write important dates, your assignment deadlines and exam schedules into your planner. It is a good idea to write each task in a differently coloured pen. Estimate the time you will need to complete each task. Write a ‘start date’ for each assignment into your planner.
Use a diary with a timetable for weekly planning – many tertiary institutions provide diaries for students and they also contain important information. Write in every commitment across the whole week: for example your classes, travel to and from your tertiary institution, meal times, part-time work, social engagements with family and friends, and regular sport. Include your start dates for each assignment in your diary. Then, assess each day and find empty time slots that you can devote to study. Write these in.
Don’t worry if unexpected events cause you to miss a study period. Your planner is only a guide. Be flexible in your approach and reschedule your study period.
Discover your learning style and experiment with study techniques to find out what works best for you. That way you will get the most out of your study time. Ask yourself questions such as: ‘Am I a morning or evening person?’ and ‘Where do I study best?’.
Be assertive and learn to say ‘no’ – it can help to prevent you over-committing your time.
Have some exam strategies in place and ways to deal with exam stress. Exam periods call for a different time-management approach as you revise and prepare for final assessments. Managing your time throughout the semester is one of the best long-term exam strategies.
Be realistic; don’t set impossible goals such as six hours of continuous study without a break. Reward yourself for your efforts and plan to have some fun and
Quick time-management tips
Suggestions include:
Take advantage of small chunks of free time: for example, while travelling on public transport. You could read over lecture notes, make assignment plans or proofread your work.
Avoid ‘double handling’. Tackle small tasks as soon as you get them.
Keep something handy at all times to write things down. Capture those valuable thoughts that you might have while you’re waiting in a queue for the photocopier.
Spend a few minutes writing up a plan for each assignment. Break down the various tasks and list them in order of priority.

relaxation so that you don’t experience burnout.

If you want to listen and read the full article click on the next link: time management

The Most Frequent Used Words in English

medicineenglish — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:26:59 +0000

My Pocket Dictionay

These are the 200 most frequent used words, the 50most frequent nouns, the 50 most frequent verbs, the 50 most frequent adjectives and the most frequent phrases of the spoken English in the English language. You should learn this words because you are going to firnd them in written texts and speakig situations.

Use the following strategies to master them:

Test yourself and identify how many word you already know.
Translate them from English into Spanish and vice versa.
Write sentences related to your life using some of them.
Identify the grammatical cathegory of each of them.
Learn how they are pronounced.
Read a word, cover it, wait five seconds, write it and check it if you did it well. You can aslo use phrases.
Make up conversations using the new words.

200 most frequent words (types)

the	if	that’s	its	off
and	do	time	want	why
to	as	could	also	can’t
a	an	like	more	of
of	all	go	in	quite
i	just	some	new	even
it	were	very	come	many
in	which	people	i’ve	through
you	er	right	year	actually
was	well	into	years	might
‘s	has	two	should	world
is	mm	yes	you’re	much
he	been	see	didn’t	they’re
for	up	‘m	something	man
with	her	i’m	our	look
that	would	‘ll	there’s	life
that	my	did	as	another
on	can	really	these	own
but	then	mean	three	like
they	who	how	being	out
be	will	because	make	like
have	about	her	still	when
we	‘ve	going	take	used
at	me	‘d	put	night
she	don’t	one	cos	old
yeah	think	no	where	same
‘s	oh	good	day	always
his	them	first	things	i’ll
not	their	than	over	at
there	got	on	he’s	a
this	when	say	never	next
are	your	only	too	came
had	him	any	made	about
from	‘re	here	went	you’ve
what	one	other	thing	over
it’s	out	back	us	doing
so	erm	down	thought	week
know	get	after	again	must
by	no	more	those	says
said	now	way	mr	may
or	as	last	all	house

50 most frequent nouns (headwords)

1. time	11. week	21. home	31. bit	41. job
2. people	12. house	22. family	32. women	42. group
3. way	13. lot	23. part	33. road	43. months
4. year	14. sort	24. city	34. government	44. car
5. day	15. place	25. school	35. country	45. moment
6. thing	16. end	26. number	36. name	46. street
7. world	17. work	27. room	37. hand	47. town
8. man	18. children	28. head	38. police	48. door
9. life	19. side	29. point	39. fact	49. problem
10. night	20. money	30. kind	40. mother	50. street

50 most frequent verbs (headwords)

1. be	11. go	21. like	31. feel	41. help
2. have	12. see	22. use	32. call	42. give
3. know	13. mean	23. must	33. keep	43. play
4. say	14. want	24. may	34. look	44. believe
5. do	15. come	25. tell	35. remember	45. turn
6. would	16. should	26. give	36. ask	46. start
7. will	17. make	27. need	37. set	47. hear
8. think	18. take	28. find	38. read	48. talk
9. get	19. put	29. let	39. work	49. add
10. could	20. might	30. leave	40. try	50. lose

50 most frequent adjectives (headwords)

1. good	11. long	21. able	31. fine	41. top
2. other	12. sure	22. national	32. wrong	42. available
3. new	13. nice	23. whole	33. happy	43. short
4. old	14. young	24. important	34. black	44. certain
5. right	15. small	25. free	35. difficult	45. likely
6. great	16. only	26. local	36. large	46. poor
7. little	17. high	27. sorry	37. possible	47. lovely
8. big	18. bad	28. open	38. early	48. easy
9. different	19. real	29. main	39. white	49. clear
10. best	20. full	30. hard	40. true	50. late

Most frequent 102 4grams (English spoken corpus)

1. it ‘s it ‘s

2. i think it ‘s

3. i mean it ‘s

4. you ‘ve got to

5. you know it ‘s

6. you know what

7. know what i mean

8. i ‘m going to

9. i think that ‘s

10. that ‘s what i

11. at the end of

12. the end of the

13. i ‘ve got a

14. i don’t know what

15. that ‘s that ‘s

16. you ‘ve got a

17. a bit of a

18. it ‘s a bit

19. i ‘ve got to

20. do you want to

21. i think it was

22. a lot of people

23. i ‘m i ‘m

24. it ‘s all right

25. i don’t know if

26. you ‘re going to

27. thank you very much

28. we ‘re going to

29. or something like that

30. i ‘m not sure

31. i ‘d like to

32. do you know what

33. and things like that

34. i don’t think i

35. i don’t know whether

36. if you ‘ve got

37. i don’t think it

38. it ‘s not a

39. that sort of thing

40. that ‘s all right

41. i mean that ‘s

42. i don’t want to

43. ‘s going to be

44. you know i mean

45. i don’t know how

46. what do you think

47. he ‘s he ‘s

48. there ‘s a lot

49. i was going to

50. if you want to

51. i mean i i

52. it ‘s going to

53. i ‘ll have to

54. i thought it was

55. i mean you know

56. we ‘ve got a

57. ‘s a lot of

58. a lot of the

59. and i think that

60. at the same time

61. it ‘s just a

62. to be able to

63. well i don’t know

64. that ‘s why i

65. it was it was

66. you ‘ve got the

67. but it ‘s not

68. i mean i ‘m

69. quite a lot of

70. end of the day

71. i ‘ve i ‘ve

72. i mean i ‘ve

73. in the middle of

74. i mean i don’t

75. no it ‘s not

76. they ‘re they ‘re

77. you don’t have to

78. it ‘s gonna be

79. we ‘ve got to

80. i ‘ll tell you

81. i ‘ll i ‘ll

82. i don’t think so

83. i think i think

84. i mean there ‘s

85. are you going to

86. to go to the

87. they ‘re going to

88. you ‘ll have to

89. have a look at

90. i mean i think

91. i mean if you

92. there ‘s there ‘s

93. it ‘s a very

94. but i don’t know

95. you want me to

96. i ‘m not going

97. if you if you

98. it ‘s a good

99. they ‘ve got a

100. think it ‘s a

101. you know if you

102. a lot of money

Medicineenglish's Weblog

Time Table

THE PRESENT SIMPLE

Watch the video and answer the questions from the character in the video.

Now watch this other video and write a composition about your daily activities.

California Adult Learning Activities

California Adult Leraning Activities: Health and Safety

Story List

The Human Heart

Read this text and watch a video ask 10 questions about both of them.

Functioning

Take the following heart quizzes on the following links:

The Human HeartQuiz 1

The Human Heart quiz 2

If you want to explore more go to this link: The heart

Each Heart Beat

Watch the following video and write a summary of it

Watch the following video and write mindmap about the human heart.

Click on the following link: the human heart

Human Anatomy on Line

Human Anatomy on Line

Study the Skeletal system in the previous link.

Now watch the video in pairs and make a summary from it.

The Skelletal System

Improving Listening, Reading and Vocabulary

California Adult Learning Activities

911 Calls

The Present Simple

Watch the following videos and learn how to use the present simple tense

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/welcome/

Present Simple

Tertiary studies – time management

Reading strategy

Underline the word which are similar in English and Spanish, then try to create relationships among them to have a general idea about the text.

You can also listen the article by clicking on the red box on your right to practice your listening and pronunciation

Read the following article:Tertiary studies – time management

Tertiary studies – time management

The Most Frequent Used Words in English

200 most frequent words (types)