Listening comprehension
Listen to this excerpt from the article about Lenia Teo on pages 24-25 of
English Now
No 95. Then drag and drop the words below into the correct spaces to complete the text.
session
leave
most
countries
physical therapy
increasing
spends
workday
Although
massaging
helping
loosen up
interact
traditional
differences
Westerners
influence
medicine
approach
improve
______
she has a busy
______
, she says that she doesn't work as many hours as most Singaporeans. Most of her friends start their workday at 8am and don't
______
the office until 6 or 7pm. Lenia also works half days on Saturdays, so over the week, she thinks that she works about as much as
______
of the people she knows.
Because she has worked in three different
______
, she has noticed some real
______
in the way Singaporeans and
______
– Americans and Australians – approach
______
. The Western approach focuses on
______
autonomy for the patient, and the patient
______
most of his or her time with physical therapist assistants, learning or doing exercises to help
______
their condition. Singaporean physical therapists have a much more ‘hands-on’
______
; the patient spends most of the
______
with the physical therapist, who spends a large part of the session
______
and
______
patients to
______
their muscles. According to Lenia, this is because of the
______
of
______
Chinese
______
. In this part of Asia, patients expect the doctor to ‘do the work’, and to
______
with and touch the patient.
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