V3 Reading

• Engels
• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

Reading

You are going to continue with the reading text in your book.

Read about three medical practitioners. What examples do they give of things that give them job satisfaction?

What examples do they give of things that give them job satisfaction?

Read again and match texts A–C with sentences 1–4. One text has two matching sentences.

A

B

C

C

Complete the collocations with a noun or adjective from the words in blue from the text.

2: a stable/a ________ condition
3: a deep/a ________ cut
4: a flu/a ________ epidemic

Use appropriate collocations from Exercise 4 to answer the comprehension questions. Then check your answers in the text.

Where does Dr Young usually treat patients?

What did he once treat a teenager in a restaurant for?

Why did Sonia Costa decide to work in Yemen?

Which ward did she work on in the hospital?

What is the most common call that Sally James deals with?

What sort of situations is she trained to deal with?

Think of three questions to ask your classmate using different collocations from Exercise 4.

What are the pros and cons of working as one of the medical professionals described in the text. What would be the best or worst thing?

Would you consider a career in medicine? Why/Why not?

Done?

Practise the conditionals in your book or on this website.