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Pronunciation

How to pronounce-ed

The pronunciation of words ending in-ed depends on final consonant sound. There
are 3 ways to pronounce-ed at the end of the word in English.
/id/ /t/ /d/

It’s for final consonant It’s for final consonant It’s for final consonant
sound of t and d. sound of p, k, f, gh, sh, sound of l,n,r,g,s,z,b
ch, ss, c and x and m

examples: examples: examples:
evaluated marked combined
needed strapped used
wanted monitored
associated observed

Speaking 1

a In pairs, choose one of the scenarios below and write dialogues on giving an explanation
about medical procedure to patients. One student is the patient/patient’s family, and the
other student is the nurse.

Scenario 1 Scenario 2

Noelle is a 24 year old gravida 3 para 1 who A 58 year old female patient admitted from
enters the birthing unit at 41 weeks gestation recovery room postoperatively for a Left Total
who experienced a previous vaginal delivery of Knee Arthroplasty (TKA). She arrived on the
a macrosomic infant after a 16-hour labor floor 72 hours ago. She is now complaining of

period. She was diagnosed with gestational chest pain and severe shortness of breath.
diabetes in both pregnancies and that she has Pain is worse on inspiration and in her
been taking her own capillary blood glucose substernal chest.
(CBG) levels 3 times a day.

Scenario 3

The client is a 52 year-old male admitted to hospital for a bowel resection due to
adenocarcinoma of the colon. He is one-day post-op. His hemoglobin is 74 g/L and the
physician has ordered 2 units of packed red blood cells to be administered, each over two
hours. He is very anxious about the transfusion. Once the transfusion commences, he
develops hives on his chest. This causes his anxiety to increase.

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