Reading comprehension using passive voice.

Hey students!!! We are about to finish this term. In this part of the process we are going to check the passive voice mixed within a reading comprehension. Besides, this activity is designed to help you improve your strategies on reading comprehension as well. The main topic is going to be "Doctors", a topic related to professions that you selected months ago.

The activity is divided in 7 exercises that will be evaluated. Once the activity on "Doctors" is covered, we are going to have mock tests on reading comprehension exercises so you can get ready for the ICFES test on September 2011.

Go ahead, you can do it !

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Estas actividades serán respondidas o elaboradas en inglés o spanglish, teniendo en cuenta que spanglish no tendrá el mismo valor académico con respecto a la primera opción.

1. Reading

Doctors are...made by chance?

What is this job like?

Doctors make people healthier. When people get sick, doctors figure out why. People are examined and listened to by them. Doctors describe people’s health problems, and do tests to see what is wrong. They give people medicine and other kinds of treatment. Patients are advised about doing diet, exercise, and sleep.

There are many kinds of doctors. Family and general practitioners are often the first doctors that people go to when they get sick. These doctors treat common problems. Patients are sent to visit other doctors by other doctors. These are normally called specialists. Specialists are experts in specific types of health problems.

For example, internists focus on problems with internal organs. Pediatricians care for children and babies. Surgeons perform operations, like fixing broken bones or transplanting organs.

Most doctors are doctors of medicine (M.D.). They treat all kinds of diseases and injuries. Some doctors are doctors of osteopathic medicine (D.O.). They focused on muscles and bones.

Long hours are worked by doctors, at all times of day and night. About 3 out of 10 physicians worked more than 60 hours a week in 2008. But doctors who work in small offices often have more time off. Doctors sometimes have to hurry up to the hospital to deal with emergencies.

How do you get ready?

Becoming a doctor requires more training than most other jobs. At least 11 years are taken in order to become a doctor: 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and 3 years working in a hospital. For some specialties, doctors may have to work in a hospital for up to 8 years before they are fully trained.

To become a doctor, you should study biology, chemistry, physics, math, and English. It is not easy to get into medical school. You have to do very well in college and on medical school entrance tests.

Students spend most of the first 2 years of medical school in labs and classrooms. Lots of science courses are normally taken by students who pretend to be professionals. They also learn to ask patients the right questions and how to examine them. They learn how to tell what sickness a patient has. In the last 2 years, students work with patients and doctors in hospitals and clinics. After medical school, doctors go to work in a hospital for a few years. They are called residents. To be a resident, you must pass a test.

If you want to be a doctor, you should like to help people. You should also be willing to study a lot.

You have to know how to talk to sick people. And you should be able to make decisions and handle emergencies.

How much does this job pay?

Of all jobs, being a doctor usually pays the most money. According to the Medical Group Management Association's Physician Compensation and Production Survey, median wages depended on what kind of doctor a person was. The median yearly wages of general practitioners were $186,044 in 2008. Specialists usually made more, about $339,738 per year. How much they earn also depended on how long they had been doctors and where they lived. It also depends on how many hours are worked and how good a doctor is.

What about the future?

The number of jobs for physicians is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through the year 2018. This is partly because new machines and tools are letting doctors treat more health problems. It is also partly because the population is growing and getting older, so they will need more health care.

Job opportunities for doctors are expected to be good, especially in rural and low-income areas. Some of these areas do not have enough doctors.

2. Passive voice explanatory theory chart.

 

3. Activities.

a.In the reading 1 above there are more than ten passive voice sentences. Find them and underline them.

b. Mail to - teacherdeingles09@... - a Word doc. with the sentences you found in the text.

4. Reading comprehension exercise. 

c.For the following questionnaire answer the questions in your notebook or a Word doc. Don't forget to keep order of the questions. 

d.Following, post your work at the bottom of the blog in the comments section. 

Questionnaire.

1. In their last two years of preparation doctors:

a. Work in hospitals and veterinaries.

b. Work in clinics and health centers.

c. Work in ditoxication centers.

d. Work in hospitals and clinics.

2. A doctor’s salary depends on ______ and ________ during the month.

a. Their abilities to speak to patients/ the good weather.

b. Finding new medicines/ researching.

c. How good a doctor is/ many hours worked per month.

d. If a doctor works on holydays/ rests a lot.

3. Internists focus on problems with:

a. Psychological factors.

b. Peoples problems.

c. Skin, hair and nails.

d. Internal organs.

4. Doctors who work in offices normally:

a. Have more friends.

b. Have better wages.

c. Have more time off.

d. Have vacations in new years eve.

5. Osteopathic relates to:

a. Muscles and bones.

b. Muscles and digestive problems.

c. Muscles and cardio problems.

d. Circulatory system problems.

6. To become a doctor you need:

a. 10 years in whole.

b. 11 years and a half.

c. 10 years and a half.

d.11 years in whole.

7. Patients are advised to:

a. Rest on weekends.

b. Go on diets, exercise, and sleep well.

c. Rest on weekends and eat a lot.

d. Throw away their TVs of homes.

8. Poor areas or neighborhoods normally don’t have:

a. Good nursering and specialists prevention aid.

b. Good nurses and doctors.

c. Good doctors and nurses.

d. Good doctors.

9. When people get sick, doctors:

a. Doctors call the patient’s family.

b. Doctors look their notebooks for tips.

c. Doctors figure out why.

d. Doctors go for a break.

10. New machines and tools help doctors to:

a. Cure more health problems.

b. Treat more health problems.

c. Diagnose better diets.

d. Eliminate children’s abortion.

11. Studying _______ is necessary for being a doctor.

a. Physics, law & arts.

b. Math, English, chemistry & biology.

c. Biology, engineering, and pediatrists.

d. Languages, economics, physics & math.

e.Choose a partner's comments and check in her/his comments 3 answers you think are incorrect. Next, open a Word doc. or notebook and correct in the way you think is more appropriate giving her/him comment feedback explaining clearly why you think her/his answers are incorrect and which the correct answers should be.

f.Then publish those 3 feedback comments at the bottom of the blog in the comments section. Those will include answers or suggestions for your classmate(s) based on your own answers presented before.