•Assessment:
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•Two pieces of writing:
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•Academic abstract
•Feedback on a classmates abstract

On a sheet of paper, write the numbers 1 - 10 down the side.
For each number, write a word that can be used to start a question.
Example:
1. Why
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

What are the main stages of life? Complete the tale with the apropriate stages and ages.
STAGE
AGE RANGE
Newborn - infancy
0-3

STAGE
AGE RANGE
Conception
Newborn - infancy
0 - 3
Childhood
4 - 11
Adolesence
11 - 18
Adulthood
18 - 64
Old age
64+

Task
Imagine an average person from an average social background near the end of the adulthood stage.
What might be the positive and negative aspects of their life?
Is/was the same true for your grandparents?

POSITIVES
NEGATIVES
May have more disposable income as mortgage may have been paid off.
Deteriorating health
May make more informal friends through active social life.
May feel isolated as may have lost social network of formal friends.
Time to take up new leisure activities
Unable to take part in former activities

The aging process is subtle and the changes can be slow.
How does the body change as it moves into old age? What begins to deteriorate?


1) The skin becomes thinner and less _______. _______ appear on the face.
2) _______ become more brittle an so more likely to _______.
3) Joints become ________ and more painful.
4) Height is reduced as the _______ may become more rounded.
5) Muscles become __________.
break
weaker
stiffer
spine
wrinkles
bones
elastic

What situations are likely to occur in a senior care home?
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You work at Oakbrook Home, a care home for the elderly. While at work one day, the following
incidents all take place at the same time:
1. Mary (91) has wet herself.
2. Harry (76) is having an argument with Ann (79), who is very frail and deaf. Harry has a walking
stick and is hitting the wall with it.
3 A member of staff puts the tea and biscuits out on a trolley then tells you that he is ‘going out
for a few minutes’.
4. The telephone rings in the office.
5. The emergency buzzer from the bathroom is sounding (= going off)
6. Avis (88) keeps shouting ‘Out! Out!’ and is heading to the front door.
1. What priority would you give to these situations?
2. What further information would you like to know before taking action?
3. How did you decide what to do?

Completing the task:
•Work alone – dictionary/translators can be used
•Plan your response
•Write-up your response (clearly!)
•Think about the different language structures and vocabulary you can use
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•Have a computer? Type your response!

Homework - introduction letter
Mr and Mrs Sunderland are in their eighties and have daily help from a home warden. You
are the new worker. Their previous worker, Michelle Rutter,  was unable to introduce you personally
to the Sunderlands before she left, but promised them that you would write a letter of
introduction.
The case notes are brief, but you read of complaints that Mr Sunderland has hit his wife on two
occasions, but there is no note of this being discussed with Mr or Mrs Sunderland. Mr
Sunderland has complained about damp in the council flat and the previous worker has written a
letter to the local Housing Department about this.
Task
Write your letter of introduction. Keep it short (no more than 80 words), and to the point.
Upload your letter to the IS homework vault.