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Welcome to our newsletter. Due to a number of requests, we've decided to start creating lessons connected to academic medical English. We've started off by creating a series of new lessons (reading test, reading to writing summary, listening test and seminar speaking) on the topic of heart disease.
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What is heart disease lesson about?
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD), a term used for any disease which affects the heart or blood vessels, is responsible for almost a third of all deaths worldwide. Of this group, coronary heart disease (CHD), known simply as heart disease, is the most common cause of premature death. Despite the UK death rate due to CVD having declined by more than 75% since 1960, of the 1.5m men and 800,000 women currently living with it, one in eight males and one in fifteen females will die, resulting in £9bn a year in healthcare costs (British Heart Foundation, 2022).
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What are these lessons about?
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The reading text discusses the main causes of CVD, its treatment and prevention. The listening text focuses on the medical procedure of a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).
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These lessons are MEMBERS ONLY. This means these tests are protected from everyday purchases so they can be used as formative or summative tests.
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Reading Test: Heart Disease
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This 789-word text discusses cardiovascular disease (CVD). It provides a detailed paragraph definition of CVD and focuses on two of the biggest causes: high blood pressure and high cholesterol. It also puts forward solutions in the form of treatment and prevention. The reading test includes: matching headings to paragraphs; true, false, not given; reference words; open answer questions; citations; and a vocabulary task. (Example) Level ***** [B2/C1] TEACHER MEMBERSHIP / INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP
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Writing Summary: Heart Disease
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This 789-word text discusses cardiovascular disease (CVD). It provides a detailed paragraph definition of CVD and focuses on two of the biggest causes: high blood pressure and high cholesterol. It also puts forward solutions in the form of treatment and prevention. The summary task includes: note-taking worksheet with key, summary writing exercise with one sample summary, and a critical thinking worksheet with suggested answers. (Example) Level ***** [B2/C1] TEACHER MEMBERSHIP / INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP
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Lecture video example (link)
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Listening Test: Heart Disease (CABG Procedure)
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This short lecture explains how the mortality rate of cardiovascular disease has declined through the emergence of the coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). It talks about the CABG procedure and risks of open-heart surgery which involves single, double, triple or quadruple bypasses or the less invasive coronary angioplasty. The listening test includes: open answer questions; gap fill summary; true, false, not given; a matching exercise; a gap fill completion activity; and a summary identification task. (Example) Level ***** [B2/C1] / Video [06.30] / MP3 / PPT link in download / TEACHER MEMBERSHIP / INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP
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Heart Disease PDF Book
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The AEUK Team
Newsletter #122
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