Slideshow of Terminology and Vocabulary related to the topic

1. Chapter 1
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Lecturer
Department of Foreign Languages
University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City
Faculty of Basic Sciences

2. OBJECTIVES
Upon completing this lesson, you will be able to
1. Identify definitions, explanations and exemplifications related to main
cell parts, genetic information and cancer
2. Locate the main ideas of the mentioned text
3. Summarize the main points of main cell parts, genetic information and
cancer
4. Identify, memorize common expressions and produce Doctor – Patient
conversations in presenting complaints
5. Paraphrase academic sentences, using medical terms
6. Identify the most common combining forms related to anatomy,
physiology, the cell and cancer
7. Divide medical terms to their word parts
8. Combine word parts to form medical terms

3. OUTLINE
1.Reading
Main cell parts
Genetic information
Cancer
2. Listening
Presenting complaints
3. Speaking
Presenting complaints
4. Writing
Words, phrases and clauses
5. Medical Terminology
Introduction to medical terminology

4. READING 1
MAIN CELL PARTS
VOCABULARY
Nucleus
Membrane
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
Rough ER (RER)
Smooth ER (SER)
Ribosome
Golgi complex
Vesicle
Mitochondria
Aerobic respiration
Lysosome
Digestive enzyme
Peroxisome
Molecule
Synthesize
Cytoplasm
Cytoskeleton

5. READING 1
Cell parts Location Functions

6. READING 1
Cell parts Location Functions

7. Identify and name the cell parts

8. Identify and name the cell parts

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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10. READING 2
GENETIC INFORMATION
VOCABULARY
Strand
Base-pairing
Blueprint
Deoxyribonucleic
acid (DNA)
Genetic information
Genome
Harness
Helix –
helices
Hybrid
Bonds
Machinery
Mechanism
Medium
Ribonucleic acid
(RNA)
Stable
Transcriptional
Translational
Uniform

11. READING 2
GENETIC INFORMATION
FLOW OF GENETIC INFORMATION

12. READING 2
GENETIC INFORMATION

13. READING 2
GENETIC INFORMATION

14. READING 2
GENETIC INFORMATION
BASE – PAIRING

15. READING 2
GENETIC INFORMATION
BASE - PAIRING

16. READING 2
GENETIC INFORMATION

17. READING 2
GENETIC INFORMATION

18. READING 3 - CANCER
VOCABULARY
Benign
Biopsy
Cancer
Cancerous
Chemotherapy
Genetic defect
Hepatitis
Infection
Invade
Lump
Malignant
Medical imaging
Neoplasm
Palliative care
Radiation
Radiation
therapy
Screening test
Sign
Spread
Surgery
Symptom
Targeted
therapy
Tumor
Vaccinate

19. READING 3 - CANCER

20. READING 3 - CANCER

21. READING 3 - CANCER

22. READING 3 - CANCER

23. READING 3 - CANCER

24. READING 3 - CANCER

25. READING 3 - CANCER
Cancer prevention and control

26. LISTENING – SPEAKING
PRESENTING COMPLAINTS

27. LISTENING – SPEAKING
PRESENTING COMPLAINTS
INTRODUCTION
1. Welcoming patients and presenting
complaints is the the first key stage in
Doctor – Patient Communication.
2. Effective Doctor – Patient Communication is
a central clinical function in building a
therapeutic doctor – patient relationship,
which is the heart and art of medicine.

28. LISTENING – SPEAKING
PRESENTING COMPLAINTS
Role of Doctor Role of patient
1. Asking about personal
details
1. Answering about
personal details
2. Asking about
complaints
2. Presenting complaints
3. Asking about pains 3. Describing pains

29. WRITING
WORDS , PHRASES , CLAUSES
1. Words pattern together to form phrases.
2. Phrases pattern together to form clauses.

30. WRITING
WORDS , PHRASES , CLAUSES
WORDS- KINDS OF SPEECH

31. WRITING
WORDS , PHRASES , CLAUSES

32. MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
Medical terms are built from word parts with
some or all of the following components:
1. Word roots
2. Prefixes
3. Suffixes
4. Combining vowels (usually an “O”)
List of common prefixes, roots and suffixes
(pp.1-5)

33. SUMMARY
1. Reading
- Structures and functions of some main cell parts
- Comparison between DNA structure and RNA structure
- Definition, causes and prevention of cancer
2. Listening - Speaking
- How to welcome a patient and ask for complaints from
patients
3. Writing
- How to paraphrase a sentence, using synonyms, word
family and other grammatical structures
4. Medical Terminology
- Common word parts in medical terminology involving in
anatomy, physiology, cells and cancer

34. REFERENCES
 Bresler, S, Introduction to Molecular Biology, Legacy.
 I. Endo, I. Yamaguchi, T. Kudo, H. Osada, T. Shibata.
Molecular Anatomy of Cellular Systems, Pre 2007.
 Lackie, John, The Dictionary of Cell & Molecular Biology,
2013.
 Susan Karcher, Molecular Biology, Pre 2007.

35. REFERENCES
 Bradley, Robin A. English for Nursing and Healthcare: A
Course in General and Professional English. McGraw-Hill.
2008.
 Grice, Tony. Nursing 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2007.
 McCarter, Sam. Medicine 1. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 2009.
 Penn, Judy Meier & Hanson, Elizabeth. Anatomy and
Physiology for English language learners. Pearson
Education. 2006.

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