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Speaking

Conducting a Focus Group Discussion

a. Individually, you are going to talk for two minutes without a pause to practice using fillers. Your

teacher is going to assign you with the topic and the filler. You have to talk using the given filler

and topic in front of the class for the given time.

Let me think
first …

What I am
going to say Give me a
is…. second

What I mean
is …

b. In a group of 4, you are going to practice focus group discussion. Choose one of the topics below

and use language focus in this unit.

Discussion Prompt 1:

A patient with fatigue, dizziness, shortness of breath, and chest pain is admitted to the
emergency room. He is then diagnosed with bradycardia. The doctor gives him drug

therapy. Discuss possible alternative treatments to give and risk factors of bradycardia.

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