BBC Learning English
Video Words in the News
12 June 2013
Surgery app
Transcript:
The operating theatre can be a daunting place for patients.
And for trainee surgeons, limited time and resources mean not all get enough
hands-on experience.
Which is why four surgeons in London developed an app to practise surgery.
It has training modules which give step-by-step guides to common surgical
procedures.
Vocabulary:
operating theatre
a room in a hospital in which people are operated on
daunting
making you feel slightly scared or worried about your ability to achieve
something
trainee surgeons
people who are learning to be surgeons; surgeons are doctors who are specially
trained to perform medical operations
hands-on experience
experience gained by doing something yourself
step-by-step
doing one thing and then another thing in a fixed order
Watch the video online: Surgery app http://bbc.in/11ywHD3
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Exercise:
Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from
news reports.
Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence
correctly.
operating theatre / daunting / trainee surgeons / hands-on experience
/ step-by-step
1. "We've been working on this for seven years, _______, so we're very
excited it's finally going to happen," Esencia's CEO Andrew McDonald said
on a tour of the 170-hectare (420-acre) site.
2. Relocating to another country can be a ________ prospect, particularly if
you don't speak the language.
3. Stamford Hospital has an outpatients department, a minor injury unit, one
__________ and a day surgery unit.
4. By learning online, _________ can do more in their spare time without
travelling long distances.
5. The CBI says teenagers will develop a serious interest in science only if they
have the chance to get _________ in the subject.
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Answers:
1. "We've been working on this for seven years, step by step, so we're very
excited it's finally going to happen," Esencia's CEO Andrew McDonald said on
a tour of the 170-hectare (420-acre) site.
Source: Cube golf project gets green light
http://bbc.in/13UiKRS
2. Relocating to another country can be a daunting prospect, particularly if you
don't speak the language.
Source: The adults who suffer extreme homesickness
http://bbc.in/18sez60
3. Stamford Hospital has an outpatients department, a minor injury unit, one
operating theatre and a day surgery unit.
Source: Stamford hospital under 'threat of closure' says MP
http://bbc.in/17ECjDa
4. By learning online, trainee surgeons can do more in their spare time without
travelling long distances.
Source: Medics learn breast surgery online
http://bbc.in/12iEr11
5. The CBI says teenagers will develop a serious interest in science only if they
have the chance to get hands-on experience in the subject.
Source: Business leaders raise concern over science curriculum
http://bbc.in/11d4HoH
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