The Reading / Listening - Secret Filming - Level 3

Many doctors in the UK are angry because of people filming them on their smartphones. The Society of Radiographers (SoR), a medical organization in the UK, said patients are secretly using their phones to film their hospital visits and talks with doctors. The videos are then posted on social media sites. The SoR has called for a ban on video recording in hospitals and clinics. Dean Rogers, director of industrial strategy, said this was a problem that affected many health workers. He said there could also be privacy concerns for other people. He told reporters: "As healthcare professionals, we need to think: Does that recording breach the confidentiality of other patients?"

Medical staff and hospital workers say they are worried about the videos. They do not want to have videos of them uploaded on social media. Ashley d'Aquino, a therapeutic radiographer and 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, to publish on a cancer blog." She added: "We wear name badges, so our names will be visible in any video. It makes people feel very uncomfortable and anxious." Putting material online also risks making public the private medical data of patients.

Try the same news story at these easier levels:

    Secret Filming - Level 0,  Secret Filming - Level 1   or  Secret Filming - Level 2

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 :-)

Warm-ups

1. HOSPITALS: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about hospitals. Change partners often and share your findings.
2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life?
       doctors / angry / smartphones / medical / social media / video / hospital / privacy /
       medical staff / union / photos / patients / secret recordings / blog / anxious / data
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.
3. PRIVACY: Students A strongly believe people who disrespect people's privacy by taking smartphone videos should go to prison; Students B strongly believe otherwise. Change partners again and talk about your conversations.
4. SMARTPHONE BAN: Should smartphones be banned in these places? Why (not)? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.

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5. ANGRY: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "angry". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.
6. DANGERS: Rank these with your partner. Put the best dangers of smartphones at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

  • Lack of sleep
  • Eye damage
  • Addiction
  • Lack of exercise
  • Lack of conversation
  • Cyberbullying
  • Radiation
  • Anxiety

 

Vocabulary

    Paragraph 1

      1. filming a. Make a change to something or someone.
      2. medical b. Keeping your life and personal information secret.
      3. ban  (noun) c. Using a camera to make a movie or video.
      4. affect d. Keeping information secret and not sharing it.
      5. privacy e. About health, doctors, or hospitals.
      6. breach  (verb) f. A rule that says something is not allowed.
      7. confidentiality g. Break a rule or agreement.

    Paragraph 2

      8. union  (noun) h. A person who is getting help from a doctor or is in a hospital.
      9. handed over i. A group of workers who come together to protect their rights.
      10. publish j. Gave something to someone.
      11. badges k. Easy to see.
      12. visible l. Small signs or buttons you wear on your shirt to show who you are or what you do.
      13. anxious m. Put something in a book, newspaper, or online so people can read it.
      14. patient  (noun) n. Feeling worried or nervous.

 

Before reading / listening

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if 1-8 below are true (T) or false (F).

  1. Smartphones make all doctors in the UK angry.     T / F
  2. The article says many hospitals have banned smartphones.     T / F
  3. A man said smartphones are affecting the mental health of doctors.     T / F
  4. The man said smartphones in hospitals come with worries about privacy. T / F
  5. Hospital workers are not worried about smartphone videos.     T / F
  6. A hospital worker took a video of a patient.     T / F
  7. A patient took a video she wanted to upload onto a cancer blog.     T / F
  8. Uploading videos could mean people see private medical information.     T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

  1. angry
  2. organization
  3. posted
  4. affected
  5. concerns
  6. staff
  7. handed over
  8. visible
  9. anxious
  10. data
  1. gave
  2. uploaded
  3. workers
  4. easily seen
  5. furious
  6. worried
  7. worries
  8. group
  9. information
  10. troubled

3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

  1. patients are secretly
  2. The SoR has called for a ban
  3. there could also be privacy
  4. healthcare
  5. breach the confidentiality
  6. a member of
  7. the patient handed
  8. publish on a cancer
  9. We wear name
  10. the private medical
  1. staff
  2. professionals
  3. of other patients
  4. blog
  5. badges
  6. on video recording
  7. data of patients
  8. over her phone
  9. concerns
  10. using their phones

Gap fill

Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below.
posted
angry
concerns
talks
breach
filming
problem

Many doctors in the UK are (1) ______________________________________________ because of people (2) ______________________________________________ them on their smartphones. The Society of Radiographers (SoR), a (3) ______________________________________________ organization in the UK, said patients are secretly using their phones to film their hospital visits and (4) ______________________________________________ with doctors. The videos are then (5) ______________________________________________ on social media sites. The SoR has called for a ban on video recording in hospitals and clinics. Dean Rogers, director of industrial strategy, said this was a (6) ______________________________________________ that affected many health workers. He said there could also be privacy (7) ______________________________________________ for other people. He told reporters: "As healthcare professionals, we need to think: Does that recording (8) ______________________________________________ the confidentiality of other patients?"

Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below.
take
worker
anxious
handed
data
worried
member
badges

Medical staff and hospital workers say they are (9) ______________________________________________ about the videos. They do not want to have videos of them uploaded on social media. Ashley d'Aquino, a therapeutic radiographer and union (10) ______________________________________________, spoke about this problem. She said: "We had a (11) ______________________________________________ of staff who agreed to (12) ______________________________________________ photos for a patient, but when the patient (13) ______________________________________________ over her phone, the member of staff saw that the patient had also been [secretly] recording her, to publish on a cancer blog." She added: "We wear name (14) ______________________________________________, so our names will be visible in any video. It makes people feel very uncomfortable and (15) ______________________________________________." Putting material online also risks making public the private medical (16) ______________________________________________ of patients.

Listening — Guess the answers. Listen to check.

1) Many doctors in the UK are angry because of ______
     a.  people filming then
     b.  people film in them
     c.  people filming them
     d.  person filming them
2)  using their phones to film their hospital visits and ______
     a.  talkies with doctors
     b.  talks with doctor
     c.  talk is with doctors
     d.  talks with doctors
3)  The SoR has called for a ban ______
     a.  on video recording
     b.  in video recording
     c.  at video recording
     d.  by video recording
4)  He said there could also be privacy concerns ______
     a.  for another people
     b.  for other people
     c.  for other peoples
     d.  for others people
5)  we need to think: Does that recording ______?
     a.  broach the confidentiality
     b.  breach the confidentiality
     c.  beach the confidentiality
     d.  bleach the confidentiality

6)  a therapeutic radiographer and union worker spoke ______
     a.  about this problem
     b.  about these problem
     c.  about this problems
     d.  abet this problem
7)  She said: "We had a member of staff who agreed ______"
     a.  to make photos
     b.  to fake photos
     c.  to rake photos
     d.  to take photos
8)  She added: "We wear name badges, so our names ______"
     a.  will be invisible
     b.  will be visibility
     c.  will be visible
     d.  will be risible
9)  It makes people feel very ______
     a.  uncomfortable and anxiety
     b.  uncomfortable and anxious
     c.  uncomfortable end anxious
     d.  uncomfortable and anxiously
10)  Putting material online also risks making public the private medical ______
     a.  data off patients
     b.  data of patience
     c.  datum of patients
     d.  data of patients

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

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(7) __________________________________________________ hospital workers say they are worried about the videos. They do not want to have (8) __________________________________________________ uploaded on social media. Ashley d'Aquino, a therapeutic radiographer and union worker, spoke about this problem. She said: "We had a member of staff who (9) __________________________________________________ photos for a patient, but when the patient (10) __________________________________________________ phone, the member of staff saw that the patient had also been [secretly] recording her, to publish on a cancer blog." She added: "We (11) __________________________________________________, so our names will be visible in any video. It makes people feel very uncomfortable and anxious." Putting material online also risks making public the (12) __________________________________________________ of patients.

Comprehension questions

  1. What kind of organization is the Society of Radiographers?
  2. Where are patients posting their videos of hospital visits?
  3. What has the Society of Radiographers called for?
  4. Who did Dean Rogers talk to?
  5. What might smartphone videos in hospitals breach?
  6. What did a hospital worker agree to do for a patient?
  7. What did a patient hand to a hospital worker?
  8. What did a staff member say people wear?
  9. Where are people worried their names might be visible?
  10. What private thing could be made public by the videos?

Multiple choice quiz

1) What kind of organization is the Society of Radiographers?
a) A medical organization
b)  A  radio organization
c) A nursing organization
d) An anti-smartphone group
2) Where are patients posting their videos of hospital visits?
a) In Internet cafes
b) At home
c) Social media
d) On public transport
3) What has the Society of Radiographers called for?
a) Better smartphones
b) A ban on video recording
c) Better quality video cameras
d) Prison sentences
4) Who did Dean Rogers talk to?
a) Nurses
b) Patients
c) A smartphone company
d) Reporters
5)  What might smartphone videos in hospitals breach?
a) Confidentiality
b) Rules
c) Laws
d) Trust

6) What did a hospital worker agree to do for a patient?
a) Fix a smartphone
b) Give an injection
c) Apply a bandage
d) Take a photo
7) What did a patient hand to a hospital worker?
a) A video
b) Her phone
c) A law suit
d) A plaster
8) What did a staff member say people wear?
a) A smile
b) Uniforms
c) Hospital gowns
d) Name badges
9) Where are people worried their names might be visible?
a) On documents
b) In hospitals
c) In any video
d) On name badges
10) What private thing could be made public by the videos?
a) Addresses
b) Private medical data
c) Ages
d) Weight information

Role play

Role  A – Lack of Exercise
You think a lack of exercise is the biggest smartphone danger. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their things aren't as bad Also, tell the others which is the least damaging of these (and why): lack of conversation, eye damage or lack of sleep.

Role  B – Lack of Conversation
You think a lack of conversation is the biggest smartphone danger. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their things aren't as bad Also, tell the others which is the least damaging of these (and why): lack of exercise, eye damage or lack of sleep.

Role  C – Eye Damage
You think eye damage is the biggest smartphone danger. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their things aren't as bad Also, tell the others which is the least damaging of these (and why): lack of conversation, lack of exercise or lack of sleep.

Role  D – Lack of Sleep
You think a lack of sleep is the biggest smartphone danger. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their things aren't as bad Also, tell the others which is the least damaging of these (and why): lack of conversation, eye damage or lack of exercise.

After reading / listening

1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words...

'secret'

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    • and 'filming'.

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    • • Share your findings with your partners.

    • Make questions using the words you found.

    • Ask your partner / group your questions.

    2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.

    •Share your questions with other classmates / groups. •Ask your partner / group your questions.

    3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…?

    4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.

    5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:

    • angry
    • visits
    • posted
    • ban
    • concerns
    • breach
    • workers
    • union
    • agreed
    • publish
    • wear
    • risks

    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 - Secret Filming

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

    1. What did you think when you read the headline?
    2. What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'hospital'?
    3. What do you think of smartphones?
    4. Should smartphones be banned in hospitals?
    5. What do you take videos of on your smartphone?
    6. Should people who secretly take videos go to prison?
    7. How stressful do you think being a doctor is?
    8. Are you worried about your private health data?
    9. How important is confidentiality in hospitals?
    10. What advice do you have for doctors and medical staff?

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

    1. Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
    2. What do you think of when you hear the word 'filming'?
    3. What do you think about what you read?
    4. What problems are there with filming things on smartphones?
    5. What do you upload videos of?
    6. What would you do if someone secretly filmed you?
    7. Should hospital staff not wear name badges?
    8. What can hospitals do to protect privacy?
    9. Has anyone ever secretly filmed you?
    10. What questions would you like to ask doctors about secret filming?

    Discussion — Write your own questions

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

    (a) ________________

    (b) ________________

    (c) ________________

    (d) ________________

    (e) ________________

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

    (f) ________________

    (g) ________________

    (h) ________________

    (i) ________________

    (j) ________________

    Language — Cloze (Gap-fill)

    Many doctors in the UK are (1) ____ because of people filming them on their smartphones. The Society of Radiographers (SoR), a (2) ____ organization in the UK, said patients are secretly using their phones to film (3) ____ hospital visits and talks with doctors. The videos are then posted on social media sites. The SoR has called for a ban (4) ____ video recording in hospitals and clinics. Dean Rogers, director of industrial strategy, said this was a problem that affected many health workers. He said there could also (5) ____ privacy concerns for other people. He told reporters: "As healthcare professionals, we need to think: Does that recording breach the confidentiality of (6) ____ patients?"

    Medical staff and hospital workers say they are worried (7) ____ the videos. They do not want to have videos of them uploaded on social media. Ashley d'Aquino, a therapeutic radiographer and (8) ____ worker, spoke about this problem. She said: "We had a member (9) ____ 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 (10) ____ also been [secretly] recording her, to publish on a cancer blog." She added: "We wear name badges, so our names will be (11) ____ in any video. It makes people feel very uncomfortable and anxious." Putting material online also risks (12) ____ public the private medical data of patients.

    Which of these words go in the above text?

    1. (a)     angers     (b)     angrily     (c)     angry     (d)     anger    
    2. (a)     media     (b)     medium     (c)     medical     (d)     medicine    
    3. (a)     them     (b)     they     (c)     their     (d)     there    
    4. (a)     in     (b)     up     (c)     at     (d)     on    
    5. (a)     be     (b)     make     (c)     do     (d)     have    
    6. (a)     others     (b)     other     (c)     another     (d)     othered    
    7. (a)     to     (b)     on     (c)     of     (d)     about    
    8. (a)     onion     (b)     union     (c)     bunion     (d)     unison    
    9. (a)     at     (b)     by     (c)     of     (d)     as    
    10. (a)     did     (b)     have     (c)     was     (d)     had    
    11. (a)     vision     (b)     invisible     (c)     visibility     (d)     visible    
    12. (a)     doing     (b)     being     (c)     seeing     (d)     making

    Spelling

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    Put the text back together

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    Put the words in the right order

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    Circle the correct word (20 pairs)

    Many doctors in the UK are angrily / angry because of people filming them on their smartphones. The Society of Radiographers (SoR), a medical organization in the UK, said patients / patience are secretly using their phones to filming / film their hospital visits and talks / talk with doctors. The videos are then posted in / on social media sites. The SoR has called for a bin / ban on video recording in hospitals and clinics. Dean Rogers, director of industrial strategy, said this was a problem that affected / effected many health workers. He said there could also be / do privacy concerns for other people. He tell / told reporters: "As healthcare professionals, we need to think: Does that recording breach the confidentiality of another / other patients?"

    Medical staff and hospital workers say they are worry / worried about the videos. They do not want to have videos of them / they uploaded on social media. Ashley d'Aquino, a therapeutic radiographer and onion / union worker, spoke about this problem / problems. She said: "We had a member of staff who agreed to make / take photos for a patient, but when the patient handed under / over her phone, the member of staff saw that the patient had also been secretly / secret recording her, to / for publish on a cancer blog." She added: "We wear name badges, so our names will be visible / invisible in any video. It makes people feel very uncomfortable and anxious." Putting material online also risks / risky making public the private medical data of patients.

    Talk about the connection between each pair of words in italics, and why the correct word is correct. Look up the definition of new words.

    Insert the vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

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    Punctuate the text and add capitals

    many doctors in the uk are angry because of people filming them on their smartphones the society of radiographers sor a medical organization in the uk said patients are secretly using their phones to film their hospital visits and talks with doctors the videos are then posted on social media sites the sor has called for a ban on video recording in hospitals and clinics dean rogers director of industrial strategy said this was a problem that affected many health workers he said there could also be privacy concerns for other people he told reporters as healthcare professionals we need to think does that recording breach the confidentiality of other patients

    medical staff and hospital workers say they are worried about the videos they do not want to have videos of them uploaded on social media ashley daquino a therapeutic radiographer and 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 to publish on a cancer blog she added we wear name badges so our names will be visible in any video it makes people feel very uncomfortable and anxious putting material online also risks making public the private medical data of patients

    Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

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    ernsforotherpeople.Hetoldreporters:"Ashealthcareprofessionals,w
    eneedtothink:Doesthatrecordingbreachtheconfidentialityofotherpa
    tients?"Medicalstaffandhospitalworkerssaytheyareworriedaboutthe
    videos.Theydonotwanttohavevideosofthemuploadedonsocialmedia
    .Ashleyd'Aquino,atherapeuticradiographerandunionworker,spokea
    boutthisproblem.Shesaid:"Wehadamemberofstaffwhoagreedtotak
    ephotosforapatient,butwhenthepatienthandedoverherphone,them
    emberofstaffsawthatthepatienthadalsobeen[secretly]recordingher,
    topublishonacancerblog."Sheadded:"Wewearnamebadges,soourna
    meswillbevisibleinanyvideo.Itmakespeoplefeelveryuncomfortablea
    ndanxious."Puttingmaterialonlinealsorisksmakingpublictheprivate
    medicaldataofpatients.

    Free writing

    Write about secret filming for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

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    Academic writing

    Smartphones should not be allowed in hospitals. Discuss.

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    Homework

    1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.
    2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about this news story. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.
    3. HOSPITALS: Make a poster about hospitals. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things?
    4. FILMING: Write a magazine article about sending people to prison for secret filming. Include imaginary interviews with people who are for and against this.
    Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).
    5. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Write a newspaper article about the next stage in this news story. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.
    6. LETTER: Write a letter to an expert on hospitals. Ask him/her three questions about hospitals. Give him/her three of your ideas. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions.

    A Few Additional Activities for Students

    Ask your students what they have read, seen or heard about this news in their own language. Students are likely to / may have have encountered this news in their L1 and therefore bring a background knowledge to the classroom.

    Get students to role play different characters from this news story.

    Ask students to keep track of this news and revisit it to discuss in your next class.

    Ask students to male predictions of how this news might develop in the next few days or weeks, and then revisit and discuss in a future class.

    Ask students to write a follow-up story to this news.

    Students role play a journalist and someone who witnessed or was a part of this news. Perhaps they could make a video of the interview.

    Ask students to keep a news journal in English and add this story to their thoughts.

    Also...

    Buy my 1,000 Ideas and Activities for Language Teachers eBook. It has hundreds of ideas, activity templates, reproducible activities for:

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    • Warm ups
    • Pre-reading / Post-reading
    • Using headlines
    • Working with words
    • While-reading / While-listening
    • Moving from text to speech
    • Post-reading / Post-listening
    • Discussions
    • Using opinions
    • Plans
    • Language
    • Using lists
    • Using quotes
    • Task-based activities
    • Role plays
    • Using the central characters in the article
    • Using themes from the news
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    Answers

    (Please look at page 26 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

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