Level-graded English lessons with reading, listening, activities, and discussion.
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Lesson Content
Look First, Words You Need, Read and Listen
Understanding: Understand It
Chunks: Place, Repeat
Use It
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What Does a Nurse Do?
Start Here
Look First
- Where are these people?
- What is the nurse doing?
Before You Read
Words You Need
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Read and Listen
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A nurse cares for people who are sick, hurt, or need help. Nurses often work in hospitals. Some also work in schools and other places.
Nurses talk with patients and ask how they feel. They check how patients are doing. Some patients need help eating, washing, standing, or walking. Nurses help with these everyday needs. They also give medicine to some patients.
Nurses work with doctors and other workers. They spend a lot of time with patients and answer their questions. They also tell doctors when something changes.
A nurse’s job is to care for people and watch how they are doing. Nurses do many different things, but caring for people is an important part of their work.
Quick Check
Understand It
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Nurses care for people who are sick, hurt, or need help.
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Nurses ask patients how they feel.
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Nurses only work in hospitals.
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What do some patients need help with?
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Who do nurses work with?
Build
Chunks
Place
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The nurse is
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The nurse is
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The nurse is
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The nurse is
Repeat
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Now Try
Use It
Talk or write. Use the language from this lesson.
Answers
Understand It:
- True
- True
- False
- walking
- doctors and other workers
Chunks: Place:
- The nurse is talking with a patient.
- The nurse is helping a patient walk.
- The nurse is giving medicine.
- The nurse is working with a doctor.
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