Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Spanish nurse infected with ebola _ Listening Int 1


Watch this video and try to understand as much as possible. Then, press "CC" and watch it with subtitles (they are not perfect).

See you in class!

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi María I have understood that but I can't see the video and subtitles well

Until today everyone who had come down with the Ebola in the current outbreak had contracted it in West Africa what has now chained, we have ( ) that a nurse working in Spain has caught the virus while treating a patient a Spanish priest seen here arriving from arriving in Madrid from Sierra Leona on September the 21, the priest died four days later, the 44 years old nurse become ill five days after that. Doctor John ( ) is joining us, John had been told that modern western medicine can prevent contagion, but it didn’t happen in this hospital. ( ) you take a look at that picture it looks like everything is being done right They’re ( ) up and we were told this nurse only had two brief ( ) with the patient, I’m sure that the Spanish authorities would love to see all the scenes that they don’t photograph because we know the big difference in real life between the ( ) and what is actually done, we saw in Dallas where the man infected with Ebola came to the emergency room, he has symptoms of Ebola and he stopped to the west Africa yet and he was mistaken initially sent home, but there have been at least four or five patients treated in hospitals in the United States and no medical workers have become ill, no medical workers have become ill and the total are six including three ( ) in real contact

María - Teacher said...

Good try, Charo!

Keep practising. Try to watch the subtitles and correct your text.

See you in class!

Unknown said...

Hello María!!
I have done a summary of new.
The new speak about the outbreak of Ebola in west Africa is affecting many countries.
In Spain a nurse has contracted ebola when she cared a priest who came ill from Africa.
It seem the securite measures were correct but it has been any problem because the nurse is ill.
There are difference between protocol and what is actually done.
Another example in Dallas a man was infected with Ebola becouse he was in west Africa but he was sent to home. It was a mistakenly.

María - Teacher said...

Well done, Rebeca! Practice is the key to improvement.
Here you are some corrections:
- When you say: “of new” I think you mean “from scratch”.
- In English, we speak about “the news” or the “piece of news (singular)”. Never about “the new”.
-The nurse was taking care of the priest.
-When you say: “It seem” I think you mean “It seems”.
- When you say: “it has been any problem” you should say “there have been some problems” because it’s an affirmative sentence.
- Instead of “There are difference” you should say: “There are differences”
- Sending the man home was a mistake.
Great summary! :-) Keep practising in class and at home.

Unknown said...

Thank you so much! María for corrections.
But I don´t understand the meaning of " from scractch", I think It mean "starting with the raw material" but I don´t find relationship with new.