PRESENTATION
PRESENTACIÓN
CFGM Atención a personas en situación de dependencia
Servicios socioculturales y a la comunidad
English for social and health carers
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PRESENTATION
PRESENTACIÓN
Your basic training
Unidad didáctica
Unit
You will learn about...
● People caring
● Human body and medical conditions
● There is/there are
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● Present simple
● Countable and uncountable nouns
● Frequency adverbs and expressions
● Present simple 3
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Your basic training
People caring training program
● Basic life-support
● Data-protection and handling patient information
● Transferring people with disabilities
● Giving advice to families
● Giving psychological support to patients
● Hoisting patients
● Aggression handling (especially with elderly people who suffer from dementia)
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Human body: Systems
● Skeletal system: tendon, bone, epiphyseal bone, femur, patella, bursa
(suprapatellar, prepatellar, infrapatellar), synovial membrane, subpatellar fat,
menisci, tibia, articular cartilages, synovial cavity
● Muscular system: muscle
● Nervous system
● Endocrine system
● Lymphatic system
● Respiratory system: lungs
● Digestive system: liver, stomach, gallbladder, intestine
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● Circulatory system: heart
● Urinary system
● Reproductive system
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Your basic training
Medical conditions: Vocabulary
● A disease is a condition that impairs normal functioning and is typically
manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms.
● An illness is an unhealthy condition of body or mind.
● A sickness is a disordered, weakened, or unsound condition.
● Pain: headache, stomach ache, backache, etc.
● Injury, cut, burn, scald, cold, flu
● Symptoms: fever, sore throat, rash, temperature, cough, swollen ankle, etc.
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Medical conditions: Signs of a stroke
● F: Face is uneven.
● A: Arm is weak.
● S: Speech is strange.
● T: Time to call 112.
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Grammar: There is/there are
● There is (singular) and there are (plural) express the existence or
presence of someone or something.
● There’s is the contraction of there is.
There is a pencil. There’s a pencil. There are two pencils.
There is not a pencil. There isn’t a pencil. There are not two pencils.
Is there a pencil? Are there two pencils?
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Grammar: Countable and uncountable nouns
● A countable noun is anything that can be counted.
● They can have a singular and a plural form.
● They can take a numeral adjective.
● In the singular form, they can take the indeterminate article a/an.
● An uncountable noun is anything that cannot be counted.
● They are always singular and must always use singular verbs.
● Some nouns can be countable or uncountable depending on its specific meaning.
Many/much
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● We use many with plural countable nouns.
● We use much with uncountable nouns in questions and negative sentences.
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Your basic training
Grammar: Countable and uncountable nouns
Some/any
● In positive sentences, we use some with plural countable nouns and with
uncountable nouns.
● In negative sentences, we use any (in the structure is not … any).
● In questions, usually, we use any.
Other expressions of quantity
● Only with countable nouns: a few, a number of, several, a great number of, a large
number of.
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● Only with uncountable nouns: a little, a bit of, a great deal of, a large amount of.
● With countable and uncountable nouns: no, none, not any, a lot of, lots of, plenty
of.
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Your basic training
Grammar: Frequency
Adverbs of frequency indicate how frequently we do an activity.
● They are often used with the present simple tense as they indicate routines or repeated
activities.
● The frequency adverbs are placed:
● between the subject and the verb, if there is only a verb.
● between the auxiliary verb and the main verb, if there are two verbs.
● after the verb to be.
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Grammar: Frequency
Expressions of frequency
● There are other expressions to say how often: once in a while, every now and then,
from time to time, several times, many times, number of times + a + period of time,
every + period of time, on + day of the week with s at the end.
● These expressions go at the beginning or at the end of the sentence, but not in the
middle.
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Your basic training
Grammar: Present tenses
Present simple
● We use present simple to talk about something:
● that is true in the present.
● that happens regularly.
● that is always true.
● Simple tenses are used with:
● State verbs or stative verbs (thinking and opinions, feelings and emotions).
● Some verbs about senses (see, hear, taste, smell, feel).
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