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

17 A form of quaternary prevention aims at identifying patients at risk of overmedicalisation. Many other regional initiatives (for example for the prevention of cancer with planned screenings) support this national plan. PREVENTION Prevention includes any action performed to keep people healthy and avoid risks of poor health, injury, and early death.   Stages of a disease Any disease follows a natural path of five stages:   underlying, when an individual may potentially develop a disease;   susceptible, when an individual is at risk of developing a disease;   subclinical, when there is a disease without apparent symptoms;   clinical, when the disease shows its symptoms and is apparent; ONLINE RESOURCES   Infections agents: bacteria, viruses and fungi   Preventing the spread of contagious diseases   recovery/disability/death, when the disease has run its course.   Preventive stages Similarly, corresponding preventive health measures have been grouped into similar stages to prevent the natural progress of a disease.   Primordial prevention aims at reducing risks and is targeted towards the whole population through laws and national policy. It addresses the underlying stage of natural disease by working on the social conditions that promote its potential onset, for example, by creating cycle lanes to promote physical activity and decrease risk factors for obesity. apparent: manifesto onset: principio outcome: esito pressure sore: piaga da decubito severity: gravit  underlying: sottostante 40 BODY AND MIND   Primary prevention focuses on measures aimed at preventing a disease from occurring and is targeted towards healthy individuals. It includes activities that limit risk exposure or increase the immunity of individuals at risk to avoid a disease from becoming subclinical, for example promoting vaccination campaigns.   Secondary prevention works on the early detection of a disease and is targeted towards healthy-appearing individuals who may have developed a subclinical form of a disease. Screenings are typical examples of this type of prevention.   Tertiary prevention covers both the clinical and the outcome stages of a disease. It targets symptomatic patients and aims at reducing the severity of the disease, pain, and possible complications, for example with medication and rehabilitation.   Prevention in Italy In Italy, the government has implemented the Piano Nazionale della Prevenzione to deal with the following priority areas:   non-transmissible chronic diseases;   dependencies and related problems;   street and home accidents;   injuries and accidents at work; occupational diseases;   environment, climate, and health;   primary infectious diseases.   Prevention in the UK In the UK, the National Health Service provides a prevention programme focused on:   weight management and obesity;   alcohol and tobacco dependencies;   HIV prevention;   tuberculosis;   antimicrobial resistance;   diabetes;   cancer;   cardiovascular diseases. 

15 Which kind of prevention do these situations refer to? Primordial Primary Secondary Tertiary 1. A 50-year-old lady going for her first mammography. 2. A 22-year-old young woman going to a support group for dealing with type 1-diabetes. 3. A 6-year-old boy going to be vaccinated against polio. 4. An 80-year-old man confined to bed undergoing treatment for preventing pressure sores. 5. A class of teenage students receiving sex education. 6. A business introducing new sanitation protocols in the workplace. 7. A national advertising campaign against smoking. 8. A 43-year-old man going for a blood sugar test. 16 18 Listen to a recording about tuberculosis and choose the correct option. 1. Tuberculosis is  a. an unknown infectious disease. b. a well-known noninfectious disease. c. a well-known infectious disease. 2. How many people have latent TB? a. 30% of the total population. b. 50% of the total population. c. 25% of the total population. 17 3. One in ten people with latent TB will  a. die. b. become ill. c. become immune. 4. Common symptoms are  a. coughing, fever, obesity. b. coughing, lack of energy, and severe sweats. c. coughing, tiredness, and day sweats. 5. If you have latent TB and have had a vaccine against TB, you  a. cannot get ill. b. can still get ill. c. cannot have X-rays. OSHA Heat Illness Prevention Campaign posted by USDepartmentOfLabor 6. When you are pregnant, a TB test is  a. harmless to you and your baby. b. harmful to you and your baby. c. not harmful to you but harmful to your baby. Watch the video and complete the table. Risks of working in the summer High temperatures and 1. ........................................... Most occurrence of deaths   period 2. ........................................... of working in the heat What is important Gradually build 3. ........................................... Who can be affected by heat illness Anyone, regardless of 4. ........................................... Symptoms Headache, 5. ........................................... , dizziness, weakness, irritability, 6. ........................................... , thirst, heavy sweating, and body temperature higher than 7. ........................................... Prevention keywords 8. ........................................... Suggestions Drink water every 9. ........................................... , rest in the shade to cool down, wear a hat and 10. ........................................... 1.2   KEEPING A BODY HEALTHY 41 

Corso specialistico di inglese per sanità e assistenza sociale: competenze linguistiche, esercizi pratici e contenuti digitali integrativi.

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