The Reading / Listening - Secret Filming - Level 2

Doctors in the UK are angry because of people filming them on smartphones. A medical organization said patients are secretly using phones to film their hospital visits and their talks with doctors. The videos are then put on social media sites. Doctors have called for a ban on video recording in hospitals. A spokesperson for doctors said the videos affected many health workers. He said there were privacy concerns. He told reporters: "As healthcare professionals, we need to think: Does that recording breach the [privacy] of other patients?"

Medical staff and hospital workers are worried about the videos. They do not want to have videos of them on social media. A union worker spoke about this problem. She said: "We had a member of staff who agreed to take photos for a patient, but when the patient handed over her phone, the member of staff saw that the patient had also been [secretly] recording her." She added: "We wear name badges, so our names will be visible in any video. It makes people feel very uncomfortable." Putting material online also risks making public the private medical data of patients.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Secret Filming - Level 0 Secret Filming - Level 1   or  Secret Filming - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/patients-nhs-tiktok-instagram-people-b2771187.html
  • https://www.sor.org/news/health-safety/patients-should-not-film-clinical-procedures-witho
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk6mml5pemo


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. Doctors in the UK
  2. people filming them
  3. patients are secretly using
  4. film their hospital
  5. videos are then put on social
  6. Doctors have called for a ban
  7. He said there were privacy
  8. breach the privacy
  1. media sites
  2. phones
  3. concerns
  4. on video recording
  5. visits
  6. are angry
  7. of other patients
  8. on smartphones

Paragraph 2

  1. hospital workers are
  2. They do not want to
  3. A union worker spoke
  4. a member
  5. take
  6. the patient handed
  7. We wear name
  8. the private medical
  1. about this problem
  2. data of patients
  3. photos for a patient
  4. worried
  5. badges
  6. have videos
  7. over her phone
  8. of staff

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Doctors in the UK are (1) _________________________________________________ people filming them on smartphones. A medical organization said patients are secretly using phones to film (2) _________________________________________________ and their talks with doctors. The videos are then put on social media sites. Doctors have called for (3) _________________________________________________ video recording in hospitals. A spokesperson for doctors said (4) _________________________________________________ many health workers. He said (5) _________________________________________________ concerns. He told reporters: "As healthcare professionals, we need to think: Does that recording (6) _________________________________________________ of other patients?"

(7) _________________________________________________ hospital workers are worried about the videos. They do not want to (8) _________________________________________________ them on social media. A union worker spoke about this problem. She said: "We had a member of (9) _________________________________________________ to take photos for a patient, but when the patient handed over her phone, the member of staff saw that (10) _________________________________________________ also been [secretly] recording her." She added: "We wear name badges, so our names will be visible in any video. It (11) _________________________________________________ very uncomfortable." Putting material online also risks making public the private (12) _________________________________________________ patients.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

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es.Amedicalorganizationsaidpatientsaresecretlyusingphonestofilmt
heirhospitalvisitsandtheirtalkswithdoctors.Thevideosarethenputon
socialmediasites.Doctorshavecalledforabanonvideorecordinginhos
pitals.Aspokespersonfordoctorssaidthevideosaffectedmanyhealthw
orkers.Hesaidtherewereprivacyconcerns.Hetoldreporters:"Ashealt
hcareprofessionals,weneedtothink:Doesthatrecordingbreachthe[pr
ivacy]ofotherpatients?"Medicalstaffandhospitalworkersareworrieda
boutthevideos.Theydonotwanttohavevideosofthemonsocialmedia.
Aunionworkerspokeaboutthisproblem.Shesaid:"Wehadamemberof
staffwhoagreedtotakephotosforapatient,butwhenthepatienthanded
overherphone,thememberofstaffsawthatthepatienthadalsobeen[se
cretly]recordingher."Sheadded:"Wewearnamebadges,soournames
willbevisibleinanyvideo.Itmakespeoplefeelveryuncomfortable."Putt
ingmaterialonlinealsorisksmakingpublictheprivatemedicaldataofpa
tients.

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

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Answers

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