Listening for HSS Professionals

Health Listening Passages

Beginning level and intermediate level students

Topics:
Scripted listening passages with text (for lower level students). Many activities: vocab, spelling, matching, mult choice comprehension.

• 911 (Some videos of news reports for advanced level students)
• A Disease Caused by Sex (Some videos of news reports for advanced level students)
• Abortion Pill
• AIDS
• Air Rage(Some videos of news reports for advanced level students)
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Body Scan (CT scans) (Some videos of news reports for advanced level students)
• Cell Phone safety (Some videos of news reports for advanced level students)
• U.S. Health Insurance
• U.S. Health Insurance 2- Healthy Families (Some videos of news reports for advanced level students)
• Healthy Baby
• Keep kids safe
• Listening passage that discusses ice caps in N. Canada
• Marijuana proposition
• Organ Donations (Some videos of news reports for advanced level students)
• Prevent Choking
• School Nurse (Some videos of news reports for advanced level students)
• Skin Cancer
• Smoking Kills
• Teen Drinking
• Teen Suicide
• Threatened at School
• Tooth care (slow speaking for lower level students)
• Woman with meningitis (Some videos of news reports for advanced level students)
• Other topics (Some videos of news reports for advanced level students)

Advanced level (some of the activities are appropriate for intermediate level)

• Surviving breast cancer
  Here you can explore personal interviews and stories with women who have survived breast cancer. The women's experiences are NOT medical recommendations for what you will or should do. The stories present common hopes and fears and show how being diagnosed with breast cancer has affected different women's lives. authentic listening- advanced level with many personal opinions. video introduction without transcript. audio portion with transcript

Difficult hour long videos that could be used as a basis for discussion (opinion giving, supporting argumentation) for advanced level students:

• Pro and Con arguments for Physican assisted suicide
• End of life issues
• Goal of Medicine (including Bioethics)
• Moral ethics and electronic patient records

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