Title: 11. Class: English
Course: Study PrepProg Introduction Social Services, Health Care and Professional English, Part 1

English Classes 9th January

time 8:15-11:30

In class today we will be discussing a number of different things:

- Mental health and wellbeing - We will be using this a discussion topic and a way to build vocabulary and practice sharing ideas for the English group interviews in your entrance exams
- We will continue to look at presenting and online stagecraft
- And will also do practice quizzes for and exercises on working with synonyms.

Mental health

In this session we talk about mental health.  Mental health is a very important issue. It is difficult to prepare your English for counselling, nursing  or supporting someone with mental health.  However, it is part of your job to understand the health of your clients/patients.  It is also a very important part of your future training.  A person's mental health influences many aspects of care - from awareness of pain, to taking medication and writing care plans and also recovery. We will do the following:

    - develop a vocabulary for common mental disorders through discussion
    - discuss some scenarios and present ideas
    - read a true stories of people that have suffered with mental disorders
    - read short articles

Teacher review of task (for future teachers - delete before reposting):
The students rather happly discussed the topic although the reading tasks proved challenging for those with B1 English. It would be good to adjust the level a little.  Two versions of the text would be good one at a B1 level and another at the orginal level.  Further, the discussion had to be managed to accommodate the different language levels.

Homework Task