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Text 1
Some hospitals specialize in particular conditions like cancer or psychiatric illness. Other hospitals
specialize in particular types of patients like geriatrics, children or the terminally ill. However, the best
known type of hospital is the general hospital which deals with almost everything, has ambulance crews
and beds for both intensive care and long stay. A big general hospital has many different specialist
departments. Identifying departments can be confusing because different hospitals use different names for
the same thing. For example, one hospital may have a ‘children’s unit’ which a different hospital calls
‘Paediatrics’. ‘Accident and Emergency’ (A&E) in one hospital is called ‘Casualty’ in another. There are
many other examples. The department that specializes in heart problems, is sometimes called ‘Coronary
Care’. Others call it ‘Cardiology’ or ‘Cardiovascular medicine’. Nephrology, the department that treats
illnesses of the kidney is sometimes called ‘the Renal Unit’. Gastroenterology (digestive system) is
sometimes ‘the Department of Hepatology’. Hospital staff often use abbreviations for departments. For
example, they refer to ‘Obs and Gynae’. This is a department combining Obstetrics (pregnancy), and
Gynaecology (women’s reproductive organs). They call Otolaryngology, ‘ENT’ (ears, nose & throat), mostly
because it is much easier to say.
Comprehension
1. What three types of hospitals are mentioned in the text?
2. Which is the most common type of hospital?
3. Why are hospital department names confusing?
4. Which two departments mentioned in the text, deal with the gastrointestinal tract?
5. How many departments is ‘Obs & Gynae’?
6. What is a common name for the Otolaryngology Department?
Find terms in the text that means the same as the phrase below.
7. mental health problems _____
8. elderly people _____
9. people who are dying _____
10. paramedics _____
11. treatment for critically ill patients _____
12. stomach and intestines _____
13. uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes _____
Match department names with parts of the body.

14. Coronary Care _____ a. tonsil
15. Gynaecology _____ b. cervix
16. Obstetrics _____ c. bowel
17. Gastroenterology _____ d. heart
18. ENT _____ e. kidneys
19. Nephrology _____ f. placenta
Text 2
Hospital facilities
Shopping
There is a gift shop on the ground floor of the building that sells magazines and newspapers,
as well as sweets, soft drinks, greeting cards and other gift products. We are sorry but we do
not sell flowers.
Food
There is a canteen which serves a variety of hot and cold food. It is open twenty-four hours a
day. There is also a coffee shop near the entrance of the building, which serves a variety of
sandwiches, snacks and coffee.
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 9.00–17.00
Pharmacy
There is a pharmacy on the ground floor of the outpatients building, in Winsland Street.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9.30–17.15
Banking
There is a cashpoint in the shop on the ground floor of the building.
Vending machines
You can find vending machines selling hot and cold drinks, crisps and chocolates near
the entrance of the building.
Comprehension
20. I’m hungry. Where can I get a sandwich, please?
21. It is 6.00 p.m. Is the coffee shop still open?
22. My mother needs her medication. Can you tell me where the pharmacy is, please?
23. I want to buy some flowers for my wife. Is there a flower shop in the hospital?
24. I just need a coffee. Is there a vending machine somewhere?
25. What time does the canteen close?
26. Does the gift shop only sell magazines and newspapers?
Vocabulary
Match the definition!

1. an organism that is too small to be seen with the human eye. a. modified
2. a process by which the genetic information of an organism is changed (in a
b. amplification
stable manner)
3. a chemical released by cells that affects cells in other parts of the body. c. multicellular
4. a protein that increases the rate of a chemical reaction. d. introduce
5. a process that slows the growth of microbes in food. e. microorganism
6. changed, altered. f. mutagenesis
7. having more than one cell. g. enzyme
8. a science that deals with the chemistry of life processes in plants and
h. hormone
animals.
9. to lead or bring in especially for the first time. i. biochemistry
10. duplication, production of additional copies. j. pasteurization
11. to make impure or unclean. k. test tube

12. a test of a new drug (or a new invasive medical device) on human subjects. l. biosynthesis
13. in agreement with, accordant with. m. metabolism
n. protein
14. the process of developing valuable protein.
engineering
15. a glass tube that’s closed at one end. o. consistent with
16. restoration of something (usually land, air, or water) from a polluted,
p. findings
contaminated state.
17. the creation of more complex molecules from simpler one in cells with the
q. remediation
help of enzymes.
18. results. r. inconclusive
19. not conclusive, having no definite result. s. contaminate
20. the set of chemical reactions that happen in living organisms to maintain life. t. clinical trial

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