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Listen and Learn • Communication Skills
• Social Skills
• Empathy
• Listening to a passage for specific details
A. Your teacher will read the passage given in the listening text. Listen to it carefully.
Now, answer the following questions by choosing the correct words.

1. What kind of profession is nursing? (Noble/Not noble)

2. What does nursing deal with? (Deals with growing forests/Deals with the care of
sick and ailing patients)

3. What is the role of nurses in healthcare? (Giving advice to patients/Providing

healthcare)

4. How do nurses help doctors take suitable decisions regarding patients’ recovery?
(They only give medicines/They give important information about condition of
patients)

5. What is the duration of the Nursing Training Course in India? (Ten years/One to
four years)

• Communication Skills
Converse and Connect • Enquiring about the health of a friend

A. Enact the following conversation with your partner.

Dipti : Hello, Jaspreet. How are you feeling now?

Jaspreet : Hello. I’m feeling better. Thank you.

Dipti : I’m happy that you are back from the hospital. You’ll be fine within a
few days.

Jaspreet : I hope so. Please sit down.

Dipti : Do you still have fever?

Jaspreet : No. The fever’s gone, but I do feel very weak.

Dipti : OK. I hope you’re taking proper rest and having nutritious food.

Jaspreet : Oh, yes. My mother is looking after me very well. Even at the hospital,

the doctors and nurses took good care of me.
Dipti : That’s good. We miss you at school, though.

Jaspreet : I think, by next week, I’ll be back to my studies in school.
Dipti : Right. I’ll leave now. My mother will get worried if I am late.

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