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Effective Reading Strategies for Medical English

The document discusses various reading strategies for improving comprehension of technical texts. It covers identifying meaning from context, organizing and building vocabulary, and scanning. Examples are provided to demonstrate identifying meaning from context by analyzing sentences and words in context. The document also suggests organizing vocabulary by grouping related words together into families to aid memorization. Videos are proposed as a tool for applying reading strategies to analyze details like settings, instruments and changes in medicine.

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Effective Reading Strategies for Medical English

The document discusses various reading strategies for improving comprehension of technical texts. It covers identifying meaning from context, organizing and building vocabulary, and scanning. Examples are provided to demonstrate identifying meaning from context by analyzing sentences and words in context. The document also suggests organizing vocabulary by grouping related words together into families to aid memorization. Videos are proposed as a tool for applying reading strategies to analyze details like settings, instruments and changes in medicine.

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READING STRATEGIES

● CURSO:
Tecnologia em saúde – Projeto,
manutenção e operação de aparelhos
médico-hospitalares

● DISCIPLINA: Inglês
● Teacher: Ana Carla
READING STRATEGIES

● IDENTIFYING MEANING FROM CONTEXT

● ORGANIZING & BUILDING VOCABULARY

● SCANNING
READING STRATEGIES
Getting ready – The Body
heart
brain

chest

lungs

muscle

intestine
nose
breastbone
spine
READING STRATEGIES
Getting ready – The Body
brain
chest
lungs

muscle

intestine
heart
nose
breastbone
spine
READING STRATEGIES:
Getting ready – The Body
brain

muscle
nose

chest

heart
lungs
breastbone

spine
intestine
READING STRATEGIES:
Identifying Meaning from Context

● Read the sentences below:


1. A doctor makes long incisions.
2. A doctor makes long incisions in a
patient's chest.
3. A doctor makes long incisions in a
patient's chest to reach the heart.
READING STRATEGIES:
Identifying Meaning from Context

1. In line 3, the phrase make-believe


means:
1. realistic
2. imaginary
3. uncertain

2. In line 8, the word trauma means a


4. difficult work
5. great sadness
6. physical injury or wound
READING STRATEGIES:
Identifying Meaning from Context

3. In line 15, the word inserted means


1. put in
2. removed
3. cut

4. In line 18, the word relays means


4. creates
5. lights up
6. sends
READING STRATEGIES:
Video

● What is happening?
● Where is it happening?
● What kind of instruments are being used?
● Is this what you usually expect to see in
an operating room?
● What is a robot? Can you think of ways
that a robot could be used in a hospital?
● In what ways has the field of medicine
and medical technology changed in recent
years?
READING STRATEGIES:
Identifying Meaning from Context

Reading exercise.
Target: descubra o significado das
seguintes palavras a partir do
contexto:
1. invasive;
2. console;
3. counterintuitive;
4. mimic.
READING STRATEGIES:
Organizing & Building Vocabulary

● Um bom vocabulário facilita a


leitura.

● Uma estratégia que ajuda a


memorização de palavras é
agrupá-las de acordo com seu uso
ou contexto (family words).
READING STRATEGIES:
Organizing & Building Vocabulary

The Body Equipment Surgery


heart camera OR (operating
room)
READING STRATEGIES

Boa leitura!

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