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Unit 8
List it! Reading; Train to
Culture note
Atul Gawande is a practising
endocrine surgeon, public health
advisor and a professor at Harvard
Medical School. He is also founder
and chair of Lifebox, a non-profit
organisation making surgery safer
globally. Since 1998, Atul has been
a staff writer for The New Yorker
magazine and has written four New
York Times best-selling books. He
is the winner of several awards for
writing about science.
6 Check/clarify: approach,
discipline.
Give students time to read
through the ideas (a–h) and the
checklist.
a 5 b 3 c 5 d 1 e 2, 4, 5
g 2, 3 h 2
7 As you monitor, make a note of
some interesting checklists to
come back to during feedback.
Allow students to compare ideas
in small groups and encourage
them to give each other ideas on
how to improve their checklist,
e.g. do they need to be more
specific?
Homework
Ask students to make a list of goals
for the week and to keep a journal
detailing what they need to do to
achieve their goal, their progress
each day and whether or not they
achieved it by the end of the week.
Activity idea Extension
Ask: What goals have you set
yourself in the last year? Have your
parents ever set goals for you? Point out that goal-setting is often done in groups as well as by individuals.
What goals have they set? Why is Divide the class into small groups and tell students they are going to set a goal
it important to set goals? Students
discuss the questions with a partner.
Invite volunteers to report back to
the class on their discussions and
encourage reactions from the rest of
the class.
Learning to Learn
Taking control of own learning
Setting goals and planning for learning.
THE LIST IT! UNIT 8
CHECKLIST MANIFESTO
BY ATUL GAWANDE
1 A doctor in a large hospital walked into an operating theatre where an examples. Just imagine that an aeroplane crashed because
the pilot had failed to follow basic procedures. Suppose
operation was being performed. Everything seemed to be going well, a skyscraper fell down because the engineers hadn’t
but the doctor picked up on one disturbing fact – no one was wearing
a face mask. He was a little shocked – wearing a face mask is basic remembered to do some important calculations. There
would be an immediate inquiry to look into these events.
hospital procedure. But he didn’t say anything. The operation was
a success, but a few days later the patient came down with a fever. So Gawande’s question is: if pilots and engineers use
checklists, why don’t doctors use them?
It turned out that she had a serious infection, probably because the
doctors and nurses hadn’t followed a simple rule. If they’d worn their 4 But when Gawande talked to doctors at eight hospitals
masks, the patient wouldn’t have been infected.
2 Someone who’d be interested in that story is about a checklist that he had developed, he found that a
lot of them weren’t very enthusiastic. Twenty percent of
Atul Gawande, who wrote a book called The the doctors that Gawande talked to said that the list was
too difficult to use and that it wouldn’t help to save lives.
Checklist Manifesto: How to get things right. But, when they were shown the statement, ‘If I had surgery,
Gawande is a doctor himself, and in his book he
suggests that if surgeons run through a simple I’d want the surgeon to use this list’, 93 percent of the same
doctors agreed with it! So it’s hard to work out why they
checklist before every operation, then lives will
be saved. And he’s got the numbers to prove don’t want to use it themselves.
it. In 2001, at an important American hospital, 5 The Checklist Manifesto is a really interesting and
there was an experiment that required doctors to use a five-point well-written book. It reminds us to do basic things to avoid
checklist before they carried out specific procedures. The checklist problems. It’s relevant for all of us, not just for doctors.
was just a list of routine things doctors should normally do without We should all use checklists now and again, otherwise we’ll
thinking – for example, wearing rubber gloves, washing hands before make mistakes.
and after every patient, and so on. By making sure that the checklist
was followed, there were almost no infections over the 27 months of
the experiment, and they reckon that around eight lives were saved.
When the checklist was tried out again in hospitals in Michigan, in the
US, infections went down by 66 percent.
3 In his book, Gawande looks at other professions, too, to support
his argument that checklists reduce accidents and improve
f 2 success rates. He points out that people like engineers and pilots
use checklists all the time, and he comes up with some good
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When you go on a journey, you wouldn’t say to yourself, ‘I don’t know
where to go to, but I’ll start my journey anyway.’ You will never know if
where to go to, but I’ll start my journey anyway.’ You will never know if
your destination is where you wanted to be, if you don’t set yourself goals.
your destination is where you wanted to be, if you don’t set yourself goals.
This is important for all of our ‘journeys’ in life. The ‘goal-setting’ checklist
This is important for all of our ‘journeys’ in life. The ‘goal-setting’ checklist
helps you think clearly about what it is you want to achieve and how
helps you think clearly about what it is you want to achieve and how
you’re going to achieve it.
6 Max has a new project. He wants to learn to play the piano.
Look at these ideas that Max has written and match them with
items 1–5 in the checklist. (Some include more than one idea
and some could go in more than one place on the checklist.) 1 What I want to achieve
a I’ll be able to play about 20 songs. 2 Things I need in order to
b approach it as something to be enjoyed achieve this goal
c I’ll feel really good about my achievement.
d learn to play the piano 3 How I need to act or
behave in order to achieve
e positive comments from family and friends this goal
f a friend who will teach me 4 Things that tell me I have
g discipline to practise daily
h lessons streamed from the internet achieved this goal
7 SPEAKING Think of something you want to achieve. 5 Results of achieving this
goal, for myself and for
SPEAKING
Use the checklist to help you define your goals more clearly. others
Compare your ideas with a partner.
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Activity idea Extension
for the group as a whole. Give examples: form a band, organise an end-of-term
party, set up a study group, start a tennis club, etc. Students work together to
create a checklist to help them achieve their goal. Regroup for students to share
their ideas.
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Worksheets
Project Top ten list
Communication Making lists
Get ing What kinds of lists do you
make?
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