L7 notes from today's lesson
General reasons for private medicine:
· It
gives a better service than public – faster, thorough check-up/
diagnosis, accurate prescriptions given to patients, shorter waiting
time (more active level of service provision)
· High quality technology
· More experienced/ highly qualified staff (doctors/ specialists)
· Cleaner – higher level of cleanliness
General reasons for public medicine:
· Free!
· Equal treatment of people irrespective of their status (poor/ rich)
· All illnesses (serious/ chronic) are covered
· Don’t give higher doses of medicine with side effects
· Only gives treatment when necessary – more guidelines
General reasons against private medicine:
· Insurance doesn’t cover all types of illness (small print details exclude certain types of sports or conditions)
· People are sometimes given treatment of medicine which is unnecessary
General reasons against public medicine:
- Staff are overworked and do not have enough time to explain additional information or more thorough examination
- Don’t always explain the process or alternatives
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As reminder (especially for Vinh!).....
Thursday 24th May we will be going to the Science Museum.
Meet at 10am (don't be late) outside the Learning Centre at London Met.
Bring your mobile phone.
Before we meet on Thursday, make sure you have:
- become my friend on Facebook
- downloaded the Facebook App onto your phone:
I am setting up your groups on Facebook now so you can practise uploading photos or text as soon as you become a member.
Please email me if you have any questions!
L6 homework
1. Relative clauses practice:
If you want more advanced practice, try this website (exercises are at the bottom)
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses
2. Speaking work:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses
2. Speaking work:
"Should we ban mobile phones and
laptops from lessons?"
L6 non-defining relative clauses
Check the answers to today's non-defining relative clauses work:
2. Last month I went back to Oxford, where I studied history.
3. Annie Costello, whose
opinions have always been highly regarded, became Presidents of the NUS this year.
4. There are over 36,000 students at the Uni of
Manchester, which is the biggest...
....or.....
The University of Manchester, which
is the biggest university in the UK, has over 36,00 students.
5. Aristole, who studied
under Plato,
wrote books on many subjects.
....or......
Aristole, who wrote
books on many subjects,
studied under Plato.
6. Hilary studied politics at Harvard, where she has just been offered a professorship.
L6 homework
1. Write answers to the questions we discussed from page 80, exercise 1, on your blog. Try to write a paragraph, not one word answers.
2. Record yourself talking about mixed-sex/ single-sex schools.
You could talk about.... your school experience,
what is good/bad about mixed-sex schools
what is good/bad about single-sex schools
which you would prefer for your children in the future.
Use www.soundcloud.com to make your recording.
Click 'share' to embed it to your blog.
Let me know if you have any problems!
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