E2School Lesson 8: Practise Your Writing

Results are loaded Lesson 8: Practise Your Writing Total Score: 0.00 / 100.00 Last Access: Writing a summary Summarising a text is not only a great way to review useful language, but it's a skill you'll need in language tests, tertiary study and of course, in the workforce. The trick is to take the main ideas of the text and put them in your own words. Click Next to see the reading text again and have a go at writing your own summary. When you're happy (or stuck!), click on the sample to compare your work. Return to Video Back Viewing 1 of 3 Next Close Back Next Close Viewing 1 of 3 Results are loading Lesson 8: Practise Your Writing Total Score: 0.00 / 100.00 Last Access: Prescription or profit? The relationship between pharmaceutical companies and doctors is a complex but important one. Certainly, without these drug companies, there wouldn’t be as many medicines available for people to purchase. The history of medicine is full of businesses that have invested in research and development to create better quality cures for illness. However, major pharmaceutical companies now have thousands of sales representatives that visit doctors at their medical centers to promote their products. Their goal is to convince these doctors to prescribe the companies' drugs to their patients. Doctors are regularly offered free drug samples, expensive meals at top restaurants, tickets to musicals and even holidays. As a result, doctors may choose to recommend medicines that provide them with financial benefits, even if those drugs are not the best value for patients. In some cases, doctors may prescribe drugs that the patient doesn’t need. The responsibility of doctors is to only recommend drugs to their patients when they need them. As a result, they need to make ethical judgements and not be influenced and pressured by the multinational companies. Medical professionals should think first of the patient’s health, and all other considerations later. At times, this relationship between sales reps and the medical world makes doctors choose between what is best for their patients and what is best for their own bank accounts. Return to Video Writing Summarise the reading text in your own words. 5 0 words maximum. Return to Video Normal Quote Code Header 1 Header 2 Header 3 Header 4 Header 5 Header 6 Arial Courier New Helvetica Background Color Transparent Select Foreground Color Reset to default Select 1 x 1 Words: 0 Characters : 0 Save Edit Return to Video Sample Pharmaceutical companies provide attractive benefits to doctors who promote their drugs to their patients. As a result, doctors sometimes need to choose between recommending the most appropriate and affordable solutions, or the drugs which they can profit from personally. (39 words) Back Viewing 2 of 3 Next Close Back Next Close Viewing 2 of 3 × Insert Link Text to display To what URL should this link go? Open in new window × Insert Image Select from files Image URL 100% 50% 25% × Insert Video Video URL (YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Instagram, DailyMotion, Youku or Spotlightr) × Help ENTER Insert Par Results are loaded Lesson 8: Practise Your Writing Total Score: 0.00 / 100.00 Last Access: Awesome! You're doing great! Click Close and go on to the Collocations section . Return to Video Back Viewing 3 of 3 Next Close Back Next Close Viewing 3 of 3 × Insert Link Text to display To what URL should this link go? Open in new window × Insert Image Select from files Image URL 100% 50% 25% × Insert Video Video URL (YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Instagram, DailyMotion, Youku or Spotlightr) × Help ENTER Insert Paragraph SHIFT+ENTER Insert Paragraph CTRL+Z Undoes the last command CTRL+Y Redoes the last command TAB Tab SHIFT+TAB Untab CTRL+B Set a bold style CTRL+I Set a italic style CTRL+U Set a underline style CTRL+SHIFT+S Set a strikethrough style CTRL+BACKSLASH Clean a style CTRL+SHIFT+L Set left align CTRL+SHIFT+E Set center align CTRL+SHIFT+R Set right align CTRL+SHIFT+J Set full align CTRL+SHIFT+NUM7 Toggle unordered list CTRL+SHIFT+NUM8 Toggle ordered list CTRL+LEFTBRACKET Outdent on current paragraph CTRL+RIGHTBRACKET Indent on current paragraph CTRL+NUM0 Change current block's format as a paragraph(P tag) CTRL+NUM1 Change current block's format as H1 CTRL+NUM2 Change current block's format as H2 CTRL+NUM3 Change current block's format as H3 CTRL+NUM4 Change current block's format as H4 CTRL+NUM5 Change current block's format as H5 CTRL+NUM6 Change current block's format as H6 CTRL+ENTER Insert horizontal rule CTRL+K Show Link Dialog Summernote 0.8.11 · Project · Issues