International Students NZ

Today’s Picture: Scene from Christchurch Art Gallery

Part1: Today’s Word:

If you diagnose an illness or disorder, you find out what exactly is wrong with someone. Diagnosis is usually carried out by a doctor – or sometimes by a specialist consultant. You can also diagnose faults in machines, software etc – by finding out what the fault is and what caused it. Like ‘crisis’, ‘analysis’ and ‘thesis’, ‘diagnosis’ also has an irregular plural – the ‘sis’ changes to ‘ses’.

Click here for interactive exercises on academic vocabulary and writing.

Part 2: Test

Earlier diagnosis of breast cancer has boosted survival rates over the last two decades.

More than ten percent of the participants were diagnosed with depression and there was no significant correlation between this diagnosis and ethnicity.

The doctor diagnosed a course of antibiotics to be taken twice daily after meals for fourteen days.

When these symptoms present, before diagnosing depression or dementia, it is wise to find out more about social and behavioural factors, such as alcohol intake.

Part 3: Practice Questions

How do doctors gather evidence on which to base their diagnoses?

Part 4: Vocabulary Review

Expressions with ‘mind’

have a lot on your mind
a one-track mind
(in the right) frame of mind
at the back of your mind
cross your mind

Part 5: Kiwi Quiz Question

What percentage of the population of Auckland have Asian ethnicity?

Part 6: Today’s online listening

Click on ‘Today’s Online Listening’ to open the page and then you can click on the play button or on ‘Mp3 download’

This is a short interview and text from Australian Radio about a revolutionary way of diagnosing mental illness.

Questions for the listening:

1) Which of these is a key advantage of the new probe?

greater accuracy
savings in time and spending
more personalised treatment

2) The new probe can be used to diagnose ..

a range of psychiatric illnesses
hearing loss in children and adults
personality type

3) The locus coeruleus is

part of the inner ear
a type of delusional thinking
an area of the brain

4) The probe could be especially useful in diagnosing types of ..

depression
psychosis
anxiety

Today’s news story:
Facebook same name couple to wed

Today’s Video suggestion:
Mar Azul by Cesaria Evora (with Marisa Monte)
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