Florence Nightingale: The Nurse Who Changed Hospitals with Statistics

All levels48 minFamous PeopleLesson 6 of 6 · Outline

Aims

The lamp is the famous part, but the diagrams did the work. Evidence, reputation and how reform really happens, for C1 students.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. News10 min

    In the news: The story

    Read a 241-word news story: The lamp made her famous. The charts made her dangerous

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words to know

    7 items

  2. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: The lamp and the ward

    2 discussion questions

  3. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Evidence versus feeling

    3 discussion questions

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Changing an institution

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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