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BBC Learning English 

Video Words in the News  

12 June 2013 

Surgery app 

Transcript: 

The operating theatre can be a daunting place for patients.  

And for trainee surgeons, limited time and resources mean not all get enough 

hands-on experience. 

Which is why four surgeons in London developed an app to practise surgery.  

It has training modules which give step-by-step guides to common surgical 

procedures. 

Vocabulary: 

operating theatre 

a room in a hospital in which people are operated on  

daunting 

making you feel slightly scared or worried about your ability to achieve 

something  

trainee surgeons   

people who are learning to be surgeons; surgeons are doctors who are specially 

trained to perform medical operations  

hands-on experience 

experience gained by doing something yourself 

step-by-step 

doing one thing and then another thing in a fixed order 

Exercise: 

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from 

news reports.  

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence 

correctly. 

operating theatre / daunting / trainee surgeons / hands-on experience 

/ step-by-step 

1.  "We've been working on this for seven years, _______, so we're very 

excited it's finally going to happen," Esencia's CEO Andrew McDonald said 

on a tour of the 170-hectare (420-acre) site. 

2.  Relocating to another country can be a ________ prospect, particularly if 

you don't speak the language. 

3.  Stamford Hospital has an outpatients department, a minor injury unit, one 

__________ and a day surgery unit. 

4.  By learning online, _________ can do more in their spare time without 

travelling long distances. 

5.  The CBI says teenagers will develop a serious interest in science only if they 

have the chance to get _________ in the subject. 

Answers: 

1.  "We've been working on this for seven years, step by step, so we're very 

excited it's finally going to happen," Esencia's CEO Andrew McDonald said on 

a tour of the 170-hectare (420-acre) site. 

2.  Relocating to another country can be a daunting prospect, particularly if you 

don't speak the language. 

3.  Stamford Hospital has an outpatients department, a minor injury unit, one 

operating theatre and a day surgery unit. 

4.  By learning online, trainee surgeons can do more in their spare time without 

travelling long distances. 

5.  The CBI says teenagers will develop a serious interest in science only if they 

have the chance to get hands-on experience in the subject.