October 12, 2022

Vocabulary Word of the Day (Merriam Webster) Extricate - verb (EK-struh-kayt) Extricate means "to free or remove someone or something from an entanglement or difficulty." // Firefighters extricated the passengers from the wreckage. // The wife of the accused hired an attorney to extricate herself from the allegations brought against her husband.

Trivia: What Day is it Today? October 12, 2022 (285th day) - Day of Respect For Cultural Diversity - Emergency Nurses Day - Equatorial Guinea Independence Day - Indigenous Resistance Day (esp. @ Venezuela) - International Top Spinning Day - Lady of Aparecida - National Martin Day - World Arthritis Day

Topic: Hospital 1 (1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘hospital’? (2) What are your experiences of hospitals? (3) Would you like to work in a hospital? (4) Are the hospitals in your country good? (5) Is the standard of care in your country’s hospitals getting better? (6) Do you like watching TV programmes about hospitals? (7) Is it better to be born in hospital or at home? (8) Why is hospital food so bad? (9) Do you think hospitals are unhealthy places? (10) What do you think of a government that's lets its hospitals close down?

Topic: Hospital 2 (1) Have you ever stayed in hospital? (2) What do you think hospitals of the future will be like? (3) Have you ever been to a hospital in another country? (4) What part of a hospital would you most like a tour of? (5) Do you think hospitals are happy or sad places? (6) How could hospitals be made better places to visit and stay in? (7) What do you think a boutique hospital is? (8) What do people do if they cannot afford to go to hospital? (9) Who are the most important people working in hospitals? (10) What would you do every day if you had to spend six months in hospital?

Topic: Nursing (1) What do you think about nursing? (2) What adjectives would you use to describe nurses? (3) Do you think nursing is a good career? (4) What do you think would be the best and worst things about nursing? (5) What kind of personality do you need to be a good nurse? (6) Do you think nursing is dangerous? (7) Do you think nurses get paid enough? (8) Are male or female nurses better? (9) What do you think is a typical nurses day? (10) Do you think nurses or doctors work harder?

Topic: Nursing 2 (1) Would you rather have a male or female nurse if you were in hospital? (2) Do you think you would be a good nurse? (3) Do you think nurses get used to the sight of blood? (4) What do you think about violence against nurses? (5) If you were a nurse, in what medical would you like to work? (6) Do you think nurses need training to deal with death? (7) What do you think of governments that make nurses unemployed? Shouldn’t nurses have a job for life? (8) How can governments encourage more people to take up nursing? (9) If you were rich, would you have your own private nurse? (10) What’s the youngest you think someone can become a nurse?