Care Homes for Seniors in London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORblrXa6pc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GYIupNL1FY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efhUwn2KamQ

Care Homes and the Elderly in the UK

Video links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SiSnoY6MFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYbZg_mktA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLckFBAEkQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtfidR1Ovu4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB0uPouIcXo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrNpX913KkE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFG1jtf6Zdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvQtjY3-bcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DvYE12CM0c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDOJxKxNKsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekux5CdlZsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ0VMdxtYw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWlGLFoWrUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXoYaiqkV_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P9KL2J-bgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnFC1zFHVmI

Aged care (Documentary)

Watch the video and write in 10 sentences what it is about.

Elderly housing, safety and nutrition

Watch the videos and write in 15 sentences what they were about.

Elderly Housing - Skilled Nursing Homes

Elderly Home Safety

Elderly Nutrition - Why Proper Nutrition is Important for Seniors

Seniors

Watcg the video and describe in ten sentences, what it is about.

Write 10 sentences about:

1. senior social problems 2. senior diseases 3. senior free time activities 4. retirement 5. changing of appearance in the old age

 

Family issues

Watch the videos and comment in 7 sentences:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5mN21K_7Hw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NryjXnDZeFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Bd3Z3wwbI

Family Issues - Adoption and Foster Care

Watch the Prezi and make notes.

Family issues and foster care

Watch the video and write down 8 sentences about what you've just heard.

1. Describe the difference between fostering and adoption.
2. Describe the difference between nuclear and extended family.
3. Explain the term gender roles.

What Are The World's Biggest Problems?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY9nxG2ZQ7w

Migration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cScllA3cpL0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQHHNuc-1uA

Refugee camps

Comment each video in 10 sentences:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNALXCMfjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0CRiuNh0cM

Travelling and Transport

Go through the worksheets and do the tasks:
http://uloz.to/xKW3njEG/travelling-and-means-of-transport-doc
http://uloz.to/xeuH7JKp/prepositions-of-place-directions-doc

Water Closet

Describe in 10 sentences.

The Story of the Water Closet

A very brief, entertaining, and very English perspective on

the history of the toilet

Here is a bold statement. The WC has been described as “one of the most important inventions of the last 1000 years.” None other than the London Times newspaper said this in its Millenium Edition. It compared the invention of the toilet with, amongst others, the development of the Gutenberg printing press in 1400s, the atomic bomb, and the moon landing of 1969. Here’s another bold statement. “One of the most successful designs ever. It doesn’t only improve lives, it saves them.” None other than the Independent newspaper said that in a recent morning edition. And finally, one more bold statement. “It has done more to improve the health of the people of the world than any pills or potions.” The origin of this statement is due entirely to the author of this piece. It is true that the toilet is an important invention. But in the whole history of mankind it is relatively recent and as we shall see we had to wait for the great entrepreneurs of the Victorian times for it to be developed into what we know and love today.

Primitive Sanitation

Early primitives were, of course, the first sanitarians. They knew the rules – and learned them the hard way. They knew that they must keep their sewage away from their cooking. They knew that they had to keep their kitchen upstream and their toilet downstream. If they reversed this layout there would be terrible consequences. Death would follow. Typhoid, cholera and dysentery were just a few of the terrible diseases which thrive on poor sanitation. It is this fundamental principle that we work with today. The toilet is part of the process of separating excreta from drinking water.

Roman Latrines

The Romans were excellent sanitarians. They regarded ablutions as extremely important and built elaborate latrines in their towns and forts. Evidence remains of bath houses and toilet blocks. Here communal latrines had been built. Users sat on marble slabs. Each slab, with its hole, was supported above gushing water to take away excreta. Fresh water channels in front of the slabs allowed users to wash themselves using a natural sponge tied to the end of a twig or stick. Of course the invention of toilet tissue was years ahead and was not available to the Romans. The Romans left Britain in 450AD and their civilisation and legacy of sanitary science went with them. Their heritage disappeared and Britain plunged into the dark ages. 1000 years unwashed.

The First WC

We had to wait till 1592 before the next milestone in sanitary science was achieved. This is when the rather well-to-do godson of Queen Elizabeth 1^st  got terribly bored with his lifestyle (he was a poet) and set about designing what we now know to be the first ever, fully functioning and self contained Water Closet. His invention was something we can now all recognise but not many people of his time did. It was a major breakthrough in sanitary science and toilet design. It was an efficient and reasonably hygienic means of disposal of human waste. It had a cistern containing water. It had a seat and a bowl to receive the deposit. It had a means of flushing away that deposit using a sudden rush of the water. It was a genuine WC. A brilliant invention. Years ahead of its time. And, like all great new products, devices and gizmos, it was very expensive. It came in at £1 10s 8d, around £1000 in today’s money. Regrettably, it didn’t catch on. No-one could afford it, and only two were ever constructed. Harington made one for himself for use at his home in Kelston Manor in Bath, Somerset, England and the other for use by his godmother, Queen Elizabeth 1st at Richmond Palace, on the River Thames. (Actually, a third WC was actually constructed in 2001 and is now on display in the magnificent sanitaryware gallery at the Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton, Stoke on Trent.) Harington was ahead of his time and we had to wait another 200 years before the next glimpse of the sanitary future came along.

The Arrival of the Modern Toilet

The middle of the 1800s was the time of the ‘Great Stink’ when The Thames was an open sewer and people like George Jennings, Edward Johns, and Thomas Twyford started the race to develop the ‘modern’ toilet. What was needed was a freestanding, ceramic affair which required no mechanism and was relatively cheap. Many designs were produced and the bathroom industry was born.

Television

Describe the text in 10 sentences. Write 5 sentences about new possibilities which TV companies offer today.

The History Of Television

The television has become such an integral part of homes in the modern world that it is hard to imagine life without television. The boob tube, as television is also referred to, provides entertainment to people of all ages. Not just for entertainment value, but TV is also a valuable resource for advertising and different kinds of programming. The television as we see it and know it today was not always this way. Let’s take a brief look at the history of television and how it came into being.

Timeline of TV History

Different experiments by various people, in the field of electricity and radio, led to the development of basic technologies and ideas that laid the foundation for the invention of television. In the late 1800s, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a student in Germany, developed the first ever mechanical module of television. He succeeded in sending images through wires with the help of a rotating metal disk. This technology was called the ‘electric telescope’ that had 18 lines of resolution. Around 1907, two separate inventors, A.A. Campbell-Swinton from England and Russian scientist Boris Rosing, used the cathode ray tube in addition to the mechanical scanner system, to create a new television system. From the experiments of Nipkow and Rosing, two types of television systems came into existence: mechanical television and electronic television.

Mechanical Television History

In 1923, an American inventor called Charles Jenkins used the disk idea of Nipkow to invent the first ever practical mechanical television system. By 1931, his Radiovisor Model 100 was being sold in a complete kit as a mechanical television. In 1926, just a little after Jenkins, a British inventor known as John Logie Baird, was the first person to have succeeded in transmitting moving pictures through the mechanical disk system started by Nipkow. He also started the first ever TV studio. From 1926 till 1931, the mechanical television system saw many innovations. Although the discoveries of these men in the department of mechanical television were very innovative, by 1934, all television systems had converted into the electronic system, which is what is being used even today.

Electronic Television History

The experiments of Swinton in 1907, with the cathode ray tube for electronic television held great potential but were not converted into reality. Finally, in 1927, Philo Taylor Farnsworth was able to invent a working model of electronic television that was based on Swinton’s ideas. His experiments had started when he was just a little boy of 14 years. By the time he became 21, Philo had created the first electronic television system, which did away with the rotating disks and other mechanical aspects of mechanical television. Thus was born the television system which is the basis of all modern TVs. All the early television systems were black and white, with color television being invented much later on. Since the early invention of television in the beginning of the 1900s, history has seen many firsts in the area of television.

Mobile Phone

Write in 10 sentences what the article is about. Write in 5 sentences how you use a mobile phone every day.

Mobile Phone

Mobile Phones have proved themselves to be one of the greatest gifts to the mankind. They have become an indispensible part of our lives. But going back in time, owning a mobile phone was confined to members of affluent class. All thanks to cost cutting techniques and innovations over a period of time; mobile phones are now affordable for everyone.

Origin of this gadget is quite interesting. Starting from bulky mobiles phones which were as long and heavy as one’s forearms, to ultra thin and techno savvy handsets, mobiles phones have covered a long way so far. It all started with the basic telephony. Alexander Graham Bell was the first one to patent telephone in the year 1876. This technology was developed using the equipment designed for telegraph. Calls were connected with the help of operators. And a pillar of the mobile telephony came into existence when Charles Stevenson invented radio communication in early 1890s for keeping contacts with the offshore lighthouses. Marconi transmitted signals over the distance of 2 kms in year 1894. And Fessenden capably broadcasted music through radio by 1906.

And the following development was merger of radio telephone technology. In 1926, first class passenger trains, running from Berlin to Hamburg used the technology. These radio telephones were also used for air traffic safety as well as in the passenger airplanes. At the time of Second World War, German tanks made great use of these radio telephones too.

Two way radios was an ancestor of the mobiles phones. These radios also known as the mobile rigs, were fixed police cruisers, ambulances, taxicabs before advent of handheld mobile phones. Since the mobile radios were given connection to telephone network, one could not dial these from the home phones. And slowly this technology gained popularity among the mobile radio users.

Later versions of these radio phones incorporated cigarette lighter plugs and were called bag phones. Fixed in the vehicles, these gadgets were either used as portable two way radios or mobile phones. And then in 1940s, Motorola came with new developments in mobile phones. And this is how Walkie Talkie was born. Large, bulky and battery operated, this Handie Talkie soon found a way to US military.

Another turning point came in the history of mobile phones when the base station for mobile phones came into being. Engineers from Bell Labs developed the base stations in 1947. The same year, W. Rae Philip and Douglas H. Ring developed hexagonal cells for these mobile phones. But an engineer, Porter from Bell Labs, suggested positioning of the cell towers at corners of hexagons instead of center. He also argued for the directional antennas, for transmitting or receiving the signals in the three directions, into adjacent hexagon cells.

In 1956, Ericsson Company released the earliest full automatic cellular phone system called MTA in Sweden. Though this gadget was operated automatically but due to its bulkiness, could not really hold the users interest for long. It is surprising to hear that this mobile phone weighed around 40 kgs back then. And then improved and lighter version of the same phone was introduced in 1965. This was known as MTB and used the DTMF signaling.

Soon in 1957, Leonid Kupriyanovich developed experimental model of wearable mobile phones in Moscow, operating with the help of base station. This young engineer had earlier developed the radio phone known as LK-1. The battery life of the wearable mobile phone by the young inventor lasted for around 20-30 hours. Weighing 3 kg, it worked within the distance of 20 to 30 km from the station. Later he patented the mobile phones and also came up with a version of pocket mobile phone that was just of 0.5 Kgs in the same year.

Then again automatic pocket mobile phone was developed in 1966 at Bulgaria. Called RAT-0.5, phone coordinated with the base station known as RATZ-10. And further developments in the field of the cellular phones were witnessed in 1967. It was decided that every mobile phone would be catered to a base station throughout its life. Though this was not that novel concept, need of one base station at least broke continuity of the automatic services to the mobile phones. After three years, in 1970, another engineer Ames E. Joel invented automatically operated call handoff technology. This system allowed the mobile phones to pass through cell areas while making a phone call without any loss of conversation. This was the time when the mobile user could use the gadget without any disturbance.

Further in year 1971, AT&T Incorporation projected mobile phone service that was approved by FCC later. Another development in the history of mobile phones was registered with ARP network’s success launched in Finland. It was the earliest commercial cellular phones and was known as Zero Generation mobile network.

Invention of mobile phones that closely resembles today’s mobile phones is credited to Martin Cooper, employer and researcher of Motorola.  He initially developed cellular phone named Motorola Dynatac in 1973. With 5 inches width and 9 inches length, this 2.5 pounds weighing phone carried around 30 circuit boards in it. With recharge time of around 10 hours, talk time of 35 minutes, this phone gave comfortable talking experience to the users. One could listen, dial and talk on this mobile phone but what was missing was display screen. With passing time, refinements were made and these mobile phones improved by leaps and bounds.

With introduction of Global System for the mobile communications, radio spectrum could be used effectively. The technology gave great voice quality, international roaming facilities along with compatibility with ISDN systems. And further for providing coverage to the remote areas that ISDN, GSM and cellular phones could not offer, satellite phones came into being. Base station for the satellite phones were built in the geostationary satellites. And now there is no place on the planet that is untouched by the mobile phones.

Tasks for the week - 5th - 18th April 2015

Hello,
your tasks will be:
Texts 1, 2, 3 from the topic Homelessness, including 3 videos.
Three texts from the topic Inventions and Discoveries.
Worksheet Transport and Travelling and Prepositions and Way description.

Homeless in London

Watch the video and describe in 10 sentences.

Homelessness - video

1. Watch the video about homelessness and write its brief summary in 10 sentences. 2. Add other 5 pieces of information concerning homelessness.

Homeless?

Watch the video, write in 10 sentences what it was about. Write in 5 sentences about the feelings of the people in the video.

Helping aids for dyslexic children

Helping aids for dyslexic children 

A Approximately fifteen percent of Czech school children are diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a condition that is related to a difficulty with reading. Although it has been confirmed that there is no direct connection between IQ and dyslexia, dyslexic children are often characterised to be problematic and slow, which is an obstruction for them to fully use of their potential. There are many new learning aids aiming to change that.

 

B Children who are somewhat different often suffer from their dissimilarity in the classroom. It lasted many years until the Czech education system accepted left-handers and stopped forcing them to write with their right hand. There are about ten percent of left-handers in the population. Children who were forced to change hands and write right-handed had very bad effects in their later life.

 

C In 2010, a Czech artist, who suffers from dyslexia, published an audio-visual primer which was produced in cooperation with experts from Charles University. Alena Kupčíková, Czech painter, sculptor and conceptualist, explains what the new learning technique is based on. “Children who suffer from dyslexia tend to use their right hemisphere more than the left which influences their perception of things. They often think in pictures, which makes it more difficult for them to understand and read letters and written words. That’s why this learning aid is based on using pictures to make it easier for children to recognize letters and understand words and sentences.”

 

D At present, teachers understand a dyslexic child can be as intelligent, or even more intelligent than a child without learning disabilities. The ability to read is an essential tool for learning. A large part of the subject matter is taught at school. More and more children and adults need help with learning how to read, spell, express their thoughts on paper and acquire adequate knowledge of grammar. Many problems and traumas can be reduced by using special learning aids, activities and games.

 

E Nowadays, there are lots of great tools available that can help children overcome their struggles. They can use applications which adjust types of fonts and sizes of texts to make it easier to read, special programs, educational games, spelling assistance softwares, screen reading devices, or smartpens.

1) Read the article and match each of the headings to a paragraph.

1 Alena Kupčíková explains the principle of the new learning technique 

2 Accepting left-handers 

3 Learning aids for dyslexic children 

4 Teachers know dyslexia does not mean low IQ 

5 Introduction 

2) Read the article and answer the questions.

1 What is the article about? 

2 Who is Alena Kupčíková? 

3 What is the primer based on?

4 What were problems of left-handers like?

5 What are learning aids developed for dyslexic children mentioned in the text?

3) Explain the following words.

1 learning aids

2 left-hander 

3 primer 

4 to acquire adequate knowledge of grammar

5 smartpen

Adjusted to:

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/young-czech-artist-helps-dyslexic-children

At the doctor's

Describe the video in 10 sentences and write down the important phrases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB-1Luwur68&spfreload=10

Hospital team

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http://ulozto.cz/x3LutzuP/hospital-team-pdf

http://ulozto.cz/xkFydRye/hospital-team-picture-pdf

Hospital and Medical Professions

Hospital and Medical Professions

1.1 Make a list of medical professions you know in English and write short definitions of what the professionals do.

Example: A nurse takes care of patients, e.g. he or she gives injections and checks temperatures and pulse rates.

Useful verbs: specialize, prepare, examine, treat, support, be in charge of, assist, rescue, take care of, look after, perform, diagnose

1.2 Read the following text and answer the questions below:

A hospital is an institution providing health care and treatment by specialized staff. The professionals working in hospitals are medical and nursing staff who take care of in- and outpatients.

Hospitals may have departments which have their own speciality. They include the emergency department, cardiology, neurology, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, ophthalmology, and otorhinolaryngology. Each department has its own specialist doctors and nurses who work in a team looking after their patients. Now, we will look at some of these specialist doctors and their daily duties.

If a person has problems with their sight, they will be treated by an ophthalmologist who will inspect the eyes for disease and if necessary perform an operation.

An otorhinolaryngologist (ear, nose and throat specialist, or ENT) will diagnose and manage diseases of the ears, nose, sinuses, larynx (voice box), mouth and throat, as well as structures of the neck and face.

Obstetricians and gynaecologists are concerned with pregnant women and their unborn baby and the management of medical concerns specific to women. Obstetrician’s duties include prenatal screening where they check the health of both mother and baby and do ultrasound scanning of the foetus. Gynaecologist’s duties include diagnosing and treating problems of the female reproductive system.

A cardiologist deals with disorders of the heart, arteries and veins. Their duties include advising patients on healthy lifestyles, and proper cardio care. Cardiac surgeon’s duties include minor surgeries, such as implanting a pacemaker, and major bypass surgeries.

Finally, a neurologist diagnoses and treats disorders of the nervous system. A neurologist will firstly check patient’s history and then perform some tests. These tests include patient’s motor system, coordination, mental status and sensory system. If the patient needs an operation, they will be referred to a neurosurgeon.

Questions:

Which specialist do you see when you have a problem with hearing?

Who takes care of pregnant women?

Which specialist would you see if you have problems with your throat?

Which specialist performs heart operations?

Which specialist would you see if you had problems with your nervous system?

Tenses: Present Simple and Present Continuous

2.1 Look at the pictures and complete the given statements.

A lab technician usually ______________________ blood samples. What is Larry doing? Larry  __________________________________________ into a microscope right now.

Physiotherapists often _____________________ people who have arthritis. What is Sarah doing? She ____________________________________ a patient at the moment.

Surgeons sometimes _____________________ many hours performing one operation.  What is Dr. Hall doing? He ___________________________ on a patient.

Paramedics are the ones who ________________________ first aid.  What is Tom doing? Tom ___________________________ oxygen to a patient.

Nurses ___________________ of a patient’s general needs. They _________________ temperatures and __________________________ injections. What is Tina doing? Tina __ ____________________ the patient’s pulse.

2.2 How to speak about routines and repeated activities in the present or past. Read the paragraphs and complete the grammar rules below.

Paramedics respond to emergency calls and help people in difficult situations, for example, when they are sick or have had a car accident. Paramedics have to know what to do immediately and make a lot of important decisions.

Radiologists help doctors to diagnose a disease. They’ll X-ray or they’ll use ultrasound to image parts of the body. The images help the physician to decide about the right treatment. 

My mother worked as a physiotherapist before she retired. She used to treat patients with physical difficulties caused by injuries, disabilities or simple ageing. She would exercise with the patients, she’d teach them how to overcome difficulties and in many cases she’d help them return to their normal life. She loved her job, but suffered from too much physical stress herself.

2.3 Complete the rules and/or find examples in the paragraphs above.

1. We use Present Simple when we speak about routine or repeated activities in the present. It is also possible to use will for repeated activities, but it is less common.

Examples:

a. Paramedics respond to emergency calls and help people in difficult situations when they are sick or have had a car accident.

b. They make a lot of important decisions.

c. They’ll X-ray or they’ll use ultrasound to image parts of the body.

2. We use __________________ or ___________________ or ________________when we speak about routine or repeated activities in the past.

Examples:

d. My mother worked as a physiotherapist before she retired.

e. ______________________________________________________________________

f. ________________________________________________________________________

g. _________________________________________________________________________

1 In pairs, tell each other if you know anybody who works in the field of health care. What is he/she like? What do they do? Do they like their job? Would you like to do their job? Why?

2 Write a paragraph about a person (you know) who has a medical profession.

3 Describe the following departments.

1. 4 What are the names of specialists who work in hospital teams? Fill in the table.

Cardiology	Cardiologist
	Paediatrician
	Dermatologist
Surgery
Orthopaedics
	Anaesthetist or Anaesthesiologist
	Haematologist
Oncology
Pharmacy
Radiology

Remember: Names of departments usually end in –ology and the specialist names in –ologist or the departments end in –ics and the specialists in –ician.  There are exceptions like anaesthetics and anaesthetist.

Read the text about hospitals and medical staff and answer the questions below.

When you are ill, you call your general practitioner (or GP), who is sometimes called a family doctor, and you make an appointment with his or her receptionist. GPs normally see their patients on an appointment basis or they make home visits when patients are housebound. If you need out-of-hours treatment, e.g. at night, you should call the National Health Service (NHS) on their NHS Direct phone number and a doctor who is on call will visit you. If you need specialist care, the GP will make a referral, i.e. they will refer you to a specialist, often in a hospital.

Hospitals usually have many departments which each have their own specialty. They include the emergency department, cardiology, neurology, obstetrics and gynaecology, pediatrics, ophthalmology, and otolaryngology. You can be treated as an outpatient or an inpatient. Out-patients visit the hospital, have any treatment that they need and then go home. Inpatients are taken care of in wards. A ward unit consists of patients´ rooms, nurses´ room, bathroom, toilets, and a day room where patients can have meals, watch TV or see visitors. Next to the treatment room there is a “clean and dirty” annex and a sluice room. In the clean annex, trolleys are laid-up and the dirty annex serves for sterilization of used equipment and instruments. Each ward unit has a cleaners´ room and a linen store, of course. An isolation room is used for patients who must not be in contact with other patients in the ward unit because they may spread infection.

If you are admitted to hospital you become an inpatient and you are first seen by one of the junior doctors on the ward. He or she takes your medical history and examines you. The registrar sees you later and he or she decides about necessary tests or examinations and about the treatment. The consultant sees you on the regular ward rounds, discusses your treatment with other doctors and decides when you can be discharged to your GP´s care. On the ward round, consultants are accompanied by a medical team including a nurse.

Today, hospitals look very different to how they used to look. Hospitals used to be painted white and patients´ rooms were large, with metal beds and small units for personal possessions, and they didn´t offer much privacy. Now, many hospitals have smaller rooms, usually with two or more beds, and also private rooms. They are painted with bright colours and the furniture is very modern and the rooms have a television and a bathroom. There is much more privacy and the staff are very friendly.

Questions:

1. What do sick people usually do first when they need to see their GP?
2. What do GPs do if their patients need specialist care?
3. What is the difference between in- and outpatients?
4. Who usually asks inpatients about their previous diseases or diseases that run in their families?
5. Who decides that you can go home from hospital?
6. What makes ward units look friendlier and less depressing?