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Week Four

Week Four. Unit 3 Emergency Services. Free Association. Emergency…. 1__________ 2___________ 3___________ 4___________ 5_____________. Free Association (2). Emergency and medicine… 1. ___________ 2.__________ 3.___________ 4._________ 5.__________. Please read aloud!. VOCABULARY.

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Week Four

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  1. Week Four Unit 3 Emergency Services Alice Y. Chang

  2. Free Association • Emergency…. • 1__________ • 2___________ • 3___________ • 4___________ • 5_____________ Alice Y. Chang

  3. Free Association (2) • Emergency and medicine… • 1. ___________ • 2.__________ • 3.___________ • 4._________ • 5.__________ Alice Y. Chang

  4. Please read aloud! VOCABULARY Alice Y. Chang

  5. Main Ideas • The article is describing emergency situations happening in a hospitalunder severe weather conditions in Chicago. • All kinds of injuries are taking place and many people are in predicament. Alice Y. Chang

  6. Supporting information 1: the settings • After twenty one inches of snow came down, the city of Chicago was paralyzed practically. Alice Y. Chang

  7. More expressions: • Grind to a halt: Lose momentum and stop. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/grind-to-a-halt.html • Impassable • visibility Alice Y. Chang

  8. Supporting information 2: the consequences… • The snow plowing started immediately and highway traffic were open. Doctors and nursed went back to their duties. Alice Y. Chang

  9. Question 1: Why the article says “miraculously” when the doctors and the nurses all made it to the hospital? Alice Y. Chang

  10. More expressions • Snowploughs • Miraculously • Make it to V • Chronic dialysis Alice Y. Chang

  11. Supporting information 3 As the temperature dropped sharply, people were doing their best to cover themselves and to protect themselves from the extreme cold. Alice Y. Chang

  12. Isphahan ladies Alice Y. Chang

  13. Supporting information 4 • Despite all the efforts, there were many cases in which people got suffered. There were car accidents, people suffering from physical injuries, and other cold-related health problems occurred to many people. Alice Y. Chang

  14. Question 2 What means “casualty” and what the numerous emergent cases mentioned in the same paragraph have to do with the word? Alice Y. Chang

  15. More expressions • Presumed osteoporosis • Smash • Transient • Totally occluded • Various viral syndromes Alice Y. Chang

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  17. Think! • Classify the related conditions. how to classify diseases?  nosology? Pathology? • The internal medicine/ physicians • The surgical medicine/ surgeons Alice Y. Chang

  18. Supporting information 5: incidents and accidents • More cases of cold weather related injuries were reported, the most salient ones are the vasoconstriction problems. Alice Y. Chang

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  20. More expressions • Intern • Unaccustomed to strenuous exercise • Heedless of • The widely publicized advice • Sudden exertions ? Delegate them to women and children? Alice Y. Chang

  21. Supporting information 6 • To conclude the article, the writer gives an account of an extreme case in which a lady exposed herself in the severe weather for more than ten hours and got hurt badly. Alice Y. Chang

  22. More special expressions: • Admitted to the hospital/ to my service • Heroin • Rip-roaring pneumonia • Extensive frostbite Alice Y. Chang

  23. Questions 3 In the last paragraph it says “Indicative of our times was the Young woman…..,” what means “our times” here? • Fever may be indicative of an infection.發燒可能表明受了感染。 • a look indicative of joy 顯示高興的臉色 • Theselatestfiguresareindicativeofaslowingeconomy. Alice Y. Chang

  24. Question 4 In order to prevent similar medical emergencies mentioned in this article from happening, what kind of advices would you give to people? Alice Y. Chang

  25. Typhoon Earthquake Fire Flood Question 5: what problems? Alice Y. Chang

  26. Open discussion • Listeners’ comments and questions • Readers’ critique Alice Y. Chang

  27. Homework • Reading (1): Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art (pp.2-4) • Reading (2): Artists Really Do Have Different Brains (pp.7-8) • Reading (3): Supplementary reading: Artists Look Different • Oral reports Find references (5-10 articles) Alice Y. Chang

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