INTERMIDIATE PROJECT

Language points:

• Grammar consolidation.

• Reading comprehension Competences to reach:

• I can identify main ideas in a text.

• I can describe and compare situations.

• I can read short and easy texts in English.

Achievement:

• The aim of this project is to improve student’s comprehension of written texts as well with the use of keywords in texts.

Talking About Symptoms

Activity 1:

Complete the table with the correct way of the words. Check the chart above.

NOUN ADJECTIVE

Ex’haustion decay

Fatigue discouragement

Lethargy paralysis

Tiredness weakness

Activity 2:

Complete the sentences with the words from the box .

1. A 67 – years old man _____presented____________with a 9 month history of increasing shortness of breath.

2. The most common ___presentation__________is loss of consciousness.

3. Cranial arthritis may ___presenting____________as fever without any obvious causes.

4. The patient usually ____________presenting__________with a severe sore throat.

5. The _____Presents ______________ symptoms in this patient could perhaps be due to renal failure.

6. Other conditions with a similar __________presentation________include acute cholecystitis

7. Reduce growth is an important_____presentation___________complaint of celiac disease.

8. Two months following ____present____________, the patient was able to walk.

Activity 3:

Read the patient’s description of her symptoms then complete the case report. You have to use some words from the chart “Talking about Symptoms”.

A 50 – year old house wife, who had been well until four months previously, 1) ____ of tiredness and 2) ____malaise__. She had 3) __weight gain________ 9kg in weight in the year before she 4)_________________to her GP although she denied eating more than usual. She was 5) __constipation_______________ and she noticed that her hair had started to fall out.

Activity 4:

You are going to pretend that you are sick and you tell to the doctor five symptoms:

1.____________I feel tired when I just wake up. _________________

2.___________I don't feel healthy my body. ______________________________

3.___________I have so much headache_________________________________

4._I have stomach pain all time__________________________________________

5.__Doctor, I really feel exhausted ___________________________________________________

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