Unit 21: English You Need
Exams, news, pronunciation, teachers' tips, learners' questions
Select a unit
- 1 English You Need
- 2 English You Need
- 3 English You Need
- 4 English You Need
- 5 English You Need
- 6 English You Need
- 7 English You Need
- 8 English You Need
- 9 English You Need
- 10 English You Need
- 11 English You Need
- 12 English You Need
- 13 English You Need
- 14 English You Need
- 15 English You Need
- 16 English You Need
- 17 English You Need
- 18 English You Need
- 19 English You Need
- 20 English You Need
- 21 English You Need
- 22 English You Need
- 23 English You Need
- 24 English You Need
- 25 English You Need
- 26 English You Need
- 27 English You Need
- 28 English You Need
- 29 English You Need
- 30 English You Need
Session 2
The UK National Health Service has made a serious mistake with some patient records. Dan and Catherine teach you the language the world's media is using to discuss this story.
Activity 1
News Review
UK National Health Service mail error
The NHS has made a serious mistake over the last 5 years with its patient records
Language challenge
The national audit office in the UK has found that the NHS has made serious mistakes with patient records over the last 5 years. But what does the word 'audit' mean?
a) make an official examination of something
b) act in a short performance to gain a part in a film or theatre play
c) an adjective concerned with the sense of hearing
Watch the video and complete the activity
______________________________________________________________________________________
Did you like that? Why not try these?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
The story
More than 1,700 NHS patients may have been harmed by an administrative blunder, the National Audit Office has found.
Over five years, tens of thousands of documents, including cancer diagnoses and other test results, were put in storage instead of being sent to hospitals or GPs.
The NAO report says the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, knew there was a problem in March 2016, but waited four months before alerting parliament.
Key words and phrases
blunder
a mistake often caused by carelessness
mislaid
temporarily lost due to forgetting where it was put
backlog
a number of tasks that should have been done by now
To do
Try our quiz to see how well you've learned today's language.
News Review quiz
3 Questions
Now you've watched the video, try to answer these questions about the language in the news.
Help
Activity
Now you've watched the video, try to answer these questions about the language in the news.
Hint
a mistake often caused by carelessnessQuestion 1 of 3
Help
Activity
Now you've watched the video, try to answer these questions about the language in the news.
Hint
a number of tasks that should have been done by nowQuestion 2 of 3
Help
Activity
Now you've watched the video, try to answer these questions about the language in the news.
Hint
temporarily lost due to forgetting where it was putQuestion 3 of 3
Excellent! Great job! Bad luck! You scored:
Downloads
You can download the audio and PDF document for this episode here.
Language challenge - answer
a) make an official examination of something
End of Session 2
Join us in Session 3 for Pronunciation in the News - our video which teaches you pronunciation using the latest BBC World News bulletins.
Session Vocabulary
blunder
a mistake often caused by carelessnessmislaid
temporarily lost due to forgetting where it was putbacklog
a number of tasks that should have been done by now