Carla Finello

Doretta Ardu

Raffaella Beolé

Dominika Rzucidlo

Argomento e obiettivi del testo
 
 Life Stages è un corso di inglese specialistico per il settore dei Servizi per la sanità e l’assistenza sociale.
 
 I contenuti sono ordinati secondo criteri di graduale complessità concettuale e linguistica e vengono esplorati utilizzando le quattro abilità in modo omogeneo e integrato.
 I brani offrono un assortimento di stili, registri e livelli di difficoltà, e sono tratti da fonti diverse ed autentiche: libri e manuali, riviste e quotidiani online e siti web, anche specialistici.
 
 Il testo si propone di:
 
 <ul><li>far acquisire le competenze necessarie per comprendere testi che presentano termini, espressioni, strutture sintattiche e modalità discorsive specifiche del linguaggio settoriale;
</li><li>migliorare le capacità di ricezione e produzione orale e scritta, anche tramite attività tipo Preliminary, FCE e IELTS;
</li><li>consolidare abitudini grammaticali corrette;
</li><li>incoraggiare l'autonomia linguistica e la soluzione di problemi;
</li><li>stimolare l'interesse e la partecipazione attiva degli studenti, dando spazio alla loro esperienza personale e a problematiche di attualità.
</li></ul>La struttura
 Life Stages è diviso in sette Moduli, ognuno dei quali ripartito in un numero variabile di Unità.
 Ogni Unità è suddivisa in brevi Capitoli su due pagine – teoria ed esercizi – per favorire sia uno studio più parcellizzato, sia la scelta antologica da parte dell'insegnante.
 
 Brevi link (curiosità, ampliamenti, rimandi, attività o mini-approfondimenti) arricchiscono i brani per consentire una maggiore interattività. Un ricco apparato iconografico correda i brani di lettura, per ognuno dei quali è previsto un esauriente glossario.
 
 Ogni Unità si conclude con due sezioni:
 
 <ul><li>Vocabulary: con specifiche attività di revisione e consolidamento del lessico;
</li><li>Mapping your Mind: mappa riepilogativa per rappresentare la rete di relazioni tra i vari argomenti dell'unità.
</li></ul>Alla fine di ogni Modulo, il testo propone ulteriori attività:
 
 <ul><li>Key people: persone influenti nell'ambito dell'argomento trattato;
</li><li>Case study: analisi di un evento, un'organizzazione o un problema specifico;
</li><li>Clip: brevi filmati tratti da opere cinematografiche;
</li><li>Civic education: tematiche legate all'educazione civica e alla cittadinanza.
</li></ul>Un ultimo modulo extra comprende:
 
 <ul><li>Hands on: informazioni, consigli utili ed esercizi di role-play per immergersi in situazioni lavorative realistiche;
</li><li>Grammar: ripasso degli argomenti più importanti della grammatica inglese con lessico specifico del settore socio-sanitario;
</li><li>Spunti interdisciplinari.
</li></ul>Contenuti digitali integrativi
 
 <ul><li>Video per attività di listening e speaking
</li><li>Tracce audio in formato mp3
</li><li>Schemi e mappe interattive
</li><li>Testi per attività di approfondimento e di esercitazione
</li><li>Schede di civiltà comparata UK vs US
</li></ul>Teacher's Book. Disponibile sia in formato cartaceo sia digitale.
 
 <ul><li>Programmazione didattica / Piano di lavoro
</li><li>Didattica inclusiva e BES
</li><li>Agenda 2030
</li><li>Test di verifica di tutte le Unità e i Moduli, in formato editabile
</li><li>Soluzioni degli esercizi e note didattiche
</li><li>Audioscript delle attività di ascolto e dei video</li></ul>

MODULE 1 – BODY AND MIND

Unit 1.1 – The human body

The human body, an introduction

Cells and tissues

The skeletal and muscular systems

The nervous and endocrine systems

The cardiovascular and respiratory systems

The digestive and urinary systems

The reproductive system

The sensory systems

VOCABULARY

MAPPING YOUR MIND

Unit 1.2 – Keeping a body healthy

A healthy diet

Vitamins and minerals

Illnesses from food

Hygiene

Prevention

Vaccines

Unit 1.3 – The human brain and mind

The human brain

The limbic system

Memory

Language

Emotions

Imagination

Unit 1.4 – Keeping a mind healthy

Psychology

Psychotherapy

Psychiatry

KEY PEOPLE

CASE STUDY – Joseph Lister's antiseptic method and spray apparatus

CLIP FILM – Inside Out

CIVIC EDUCATION – Vax or no-vax?

MODULE 2 – BABIES AND CHILDREN

Unit 2.1 – Up to the birth

Preconception

Pregnancy

Antenatal screening tests

Labour and birth

Unit 2.2 – Babies

The first months after birth

Breastfeeding

Weaning

Sleeping

Growth, from 0 to 12 months

Fears and anxieties

Needs

Unit 2.3 – Children

Physical and intellectual development

Health checks and common diseases

Contagious diseases and vaccinations

Fears and phobias

Unit 2.4 – Developmental and educational theories

Freud

Piaget

Erikson

Other theories

Play theories

Unit 2.5 – Childcare

In-home care

Out-of-home care

The school system in Italy

The school system in the UK

Childcare legislation and support

CASE STUDY – The curious case of baby cages

CLIP FILM – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

CIVIC EDUCATION – Marks or no marks at school?

MODULE 3 – ADOLESCENTS

Unit 3.1 – Physical and social issues

Physical changes

Physical problems

Parental and academic pressure

Peer pressure

Bullying and cyberbullying

Relationships and contraception

Unit 3.2 – Psychological issues

Body acceptance and gender identity

Anxiety, FOMO, and hikikomori

CLIP FILM A Beautiful Mind   PRODUCTION: USA 2001   DIRECTOR: Ron Howard   STARRING: Russel Crowe (John Nash, Jennifer Connelly (Alicia Nash), Paul Bettany (Charles), Ed Harris (William Parcher), Christopher Plummer (Dr Rosen) SYNOPSIS A Beautiful Mind is a biographical film, loosely based on Sylvia Nasar s 1998 biography of the mathematician John Nash, winner of a Nobel prize in 1994. The story begins in Princeton in 1947 when Nash arrives as a graduate student. Nash prefers to study alone and only enjoys the company of Charles, his roommate. One day, invited by his classmates to join them in a bar, he has the intuition that will lead him to the writing of his paper on  Game Theory . While teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is asked to work for the Pentagon. William Parker, a high-level agent of the Department of Defence, asks him to decrypt coded Russian communication. He has to leave the deciphered codes in a box. One day, during a lecture at Harvard University, he sees Charles and Russian agents among the audience and  ees terrified. He is sedated and sent to a psychiatric facility where the doctors tell his wife that he suffers from schizophrenia and that Charles and Parker only exist in his mind. Nash has now to find a way to live with his illness. He still continues to see Charles and Parker but decides not to interact with them. He faces the demons of his illness and after many years he is able to go back to teaching and win a Nobel Prize. loosely: liberamente BEFORE WATCHING 2 Answer the questions. 1. What mental illness did John Nash suffer from? 2. Nash suffered from hallucinations and saw imaginary people. Who were the two invented characters quoted in the synopsis? 3. What happened when he was brought to hospital? 4. Once the illness was identified, how did Nash deal with the hallucinations? WHILE WATCHING 3 Watch the clip and answer the questions. John has been dismissed by the psychiatric hospital, but he has secretly stopped taking medicines because they make it impossible for him to continue his work. 1. What does Alicia find in the garage? 2. Where is the baby? 3. Who should have been with the baby according to John? 4. What strange reason does John provide for the fact that Alicia cannot see Charles? 306 SOCIETY HELPS 

CLIP FILM – A Beautiful Mind

CLIP 4 Watch another clip and answer the questions. 1. Who is Macee? 2. What does John say about Alicia and Charles? 3. What does he say about Parker, Charles, Macee, and Alicia? 4. What does he understand? AFTER WATCHING 5 Discuss the following. 1. John Nash got used to distinguishing reality from hallucinations. Do you think that accepting and recognising their mental illness can help people recover? 2. In 1961, Nash was admitted to the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton. Over the next nine 6 O R D W S years, he spent intervals of time in psychiatric hospitals, where he received both antipsychotic medication and insulin shock therapy. What do you think would have happened to him if he had been kept in hospital for the rest of his life? Complete a text on Nash s Game Theory with the following words. cooperated   decision   Dilemma   evolutionary   incentive   interaction   interest   Nash   others   outcomes Game Theory Game Theory is the study of strategic 1. ............................................ between individuals or entities. It provides a framework for understanding situations where the outcome of one s 2. ............................................ depends not only on their own actions but also on the actions of 3. ............................................. A key concept is the 4. ............................................ equilibrium, a state where no player has an 5. ............................................ to unilaterally 7 change their strategy. The classic example illustrating this is the Prisoner s 6. ............................................ where two individuals, acting in their own self7. ............................................ may end up with a worse outcome than if they had 8. ............................................. Game theory has applications in various fields, including economics, political science, and even 9. ............................................ biology, helping to analyse competitive behaviours and predict 10. ............................................. Read an extract from Nash s Nobel speech and discuss the questions. Thank you. I ve always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask,  What truly is logic? Who decides reason?  And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: it is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I m only here tonight because of you (referring to his wife Alicia). You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you. 1. What is Nash s most important discovery? 2. In your opinion, what is the role played by family members or caring people in the treatment of the mentally ill? SOCIETY HELPS 307 

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