Exercises 1b: Check
your understanding of the text above by answering these questions:
1- We
are told there are fewer beds in hospitals (2nd paragraph). This is because:
a. there are
more patients now.
b. of more than one reason.
c. there are too few nurses.
2- Patients
who become backed up (2nd paragraph) are people:
a. with back
injuries.
b. who have
changed their minds about staying in hospital.
c. waiting their turn.
3- There are people who had been waiting for the whole weekend
(2nd paragraph). These are:
a.
patients who had been waiting since Saturday morning.
b. patients who waited over Sunday.
d. patients who were waiting until Saturday morning.
4- Hospital staff have to
decide who to get ready for surgery (3rd paragraph). In other words they:
a. have to decide which of the staff are going to work
in surgery.
b. can t decide
who goes first.
c. have to work out which
patients have priority.
5- Would be nurses (4th paragraph) are:
a. people training to be nurses.
b. people who might become nurses.
c. people who used to be nurses.
Exercise 1:
Fill in the blanks with
information from the text:
1- Nurses working in the NHS say that the
present crisis is not just a _____________ but also of ____________and
_______________.
2- The number of sick people has been rising
because ____________.
3- _____________ arrive as emergencies – and
almost always they have to ____________before a bed becomes free.
4- Though most nurses say that __________and
___________have led to the recruitment and retention crisis in nursing, some
add that ___________.
5- Training nurses in the classroom rather
than at the bedside has also led to _____________.
Exercise 2:
Answer each of these questions in
a complete sentence:
1- Why are sometimes patients putting in
danger?
2- Why were 14 people stuck in A&E?
3- Why have the hospital staff difficult decisions
to make about who to get ready for surgery?
4- Why do nurses criticize recent changes in
training?
5- What did the report from the Government s
Social Affairs Unit say?
Exercise 3:
Translate the following paragraph from English into
Arabic:
Because of the demand for surgical
beds, hospital staff have difficult decisions to make about who to get ready for
surgery, and there is a daily risk of cancellations.