1. Choose suitable information from the box below to complete the table.
Answer:
- Performing operations on patients
- Welcoming and serving customers
- Making important decisions about patients' health and safety
- Medical knowledge
- Physical and mental strength
- Good persuasion skills
- Excellent eyesight and skilful hands
- Good teamwork and communication skills
2. Work in pairs. Do you think both men and women can do the surgeon's job well? Give reasons. Use the ideas below to help you.
Answer:
I think both men and women can do the surgeon's job well because both of them have the same abilities to learn and apply medical knowledge and women can be as mentally strong as men to perform long and tiring operations.
3. Write a paragraph (120 - 150 words) about the surgeon's job. Use these guiding questions to help you.
Answer:
Traditionally, surgeon's job is done by men rather than women because it's a job that need very good physical and mental strength so people believe that women can't make a great surgeon. However, becoming a surgeon needs a lot of skills such as medical knowledge, physical and mental strength, good persuasion skills, excellent eyesight and skilful hands, good teamwork and communication skills,... I believe that both of women and men have the same abilities to learn and apply medical knowledge and women can be as mentally strong as men to perform long and tiring operations. So that both of them can make great surgeons.