Página 8 - Teacher’s book - ENGLISH FOR HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS

As can be observed, receptive skills (reading, listening) appear before productive skills
(speaking, writing).
Given the comprehensive treatment of grammar, vocabulary and language skills, the book
should ideally be used over the course of a whole academic year, with (a variable number
of) weekly lessons of 45 to 60 minutes. However, shorter sections of this book can be used
and adapted to shorter teaching periods. The level of students should be intermediate or
above. Maximum class size should be around 30 students.
Apart from the four sections of the book, i.e. LIFESTYLE and HEALTH, DEALING with
PATIENTS, SAFETY and PREVENTION, and HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS, this book contains
an APPENDICES section that contains a set of further materials for specific health-care
professions. These materials are a set of reading texts that students interested in those
specific professions can use in order to familiarise themselves with vocabulary relevant to
their fields of interest.