29
April 2020
Hello
students!
Good
morning
Hope
you are spending the time usefully these lockdown days.
Today,
I have posted a lesson on “COVID 19 VOCABULARY BUILDING’.
Please
go through the glossary of words connected to COVID 19 and try to understand the
meaning of the given words and usage..
Then
attempt the quiz that follows the glossary.
Forward
your answers to the following email id quoting your name, branch of study
and your mobile number,
english-hod@pcet.edu.in
Coronavirus COVID-19 Vocabulary
Background
In December 2019 a new disease was
identified in China. On investigation, the disease was caused by a new virus of
the coronavirus family, and has since been
officially named COVID-19.
It is believed (subject to further investigation) that
COVID-19 originated in a meat and live-animal market in the city of Wuhan
(where I was employed for three months) in the province of Hubei in the country
of China. It subsequently spread to other countries and was officially pronounced a pandemic by
the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.
Glossary
asymptomatic (adjective): showing no symptoms of a particular disease - She had no idea
her husband had coronavirus because he was asymptomatic.
contagious (adjective): describing a disease that
can pass from person to person, usually by direct contact; describing a person
with such a disease. See infectious - Patients who are still contagious are
kept in isolation.
coronavirus (noun): any one of a large family
of viruses that can cause disease in the breathing and eating systems of humans and
animals (respiratory and digestive systems). Coronavirus diseases can range
from the relatively harmless common cold to more severe and potentially fatal
diseases such as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). Seen through a
microscope, coronaviruses appear circular with spikes, like crowns 👑, and are named from the Latin for crown,
which is corona. Coronaviruses normally originate in animals and
usually cannot be passed to humans. But very occasionally a coronavirus mutates
and can then be transmitted from animal to human, and then from human to human.
This is how the SARS epidemic started in the early 2000s, for example - Did
you know that flu is a coronavirus disease?
COVID-19 (noun): official name for the novel coronavirus disease that emerged in China in
2019. COVID-19 = COronaVIrus Disease-2019 - All
countries are requested to report any new confirmed case of COVID-19within
48 hours
epidemic (noun): occurrence of a particular
disease in a large number of people in a particular area. See outbreak, pandemic - The city was devastated by an epidemic of
cholera in the 19th century.
nfectious (adjective): describing a disease that can be transmittedthrough the environment; describing a
human or animal capable of spreading an infection. See contagious - Avoid the dogs as they may still be infectious.
isolate (verb): keep an infected person away from healthy people - They
will isolate anyone suspected of
having the disease.
Lockdown ( noun) a temporary
condition imposed by governmental authorities (as during the outbreak of an
epidemic disease) in which people are required to stay in their homes and
refrain from or limit activities outside the home involving public contact
(such as dining out or attending large gatherings)Authorities placed the
central Chinese city under lockdown on Jan. 23 after the
virus had infected hundreds of residents and was just starting its spread
across the globe.
mask (noun): a piece of fibre or cloth that
fits over the nose and mouth to protect other people from the wearer's germs
and/or the wearer from germs in the air - The World Health Organization recommend that
people should not wear masks unless they may be carrying COVID-19 (to protect
other people) or are caring for anyone suffering from COVID-19 (to protect
themselves).
novel
coronavirus (noun):
the word novel means “new”, and a newly identified coronavirus strain is often called a novel
coronavirus - Until they gave it a name, they mostly referred to
COVID-19 as novel coronavirus(disease).
outbreak (noun): a sudden occurrence of a disease (or other unpleasant thing). See epidemic, pandemic - There was another outbreak of
the disease in 1993 but the cause was uncertain.
pandemic (noun): occurrence of a
particular disease throughout a whole country or the world. See epidemic, outbreak - Just after the First World War there was
a pandemic of flu which killed up to
40 million people worldwide.
personal
protective equipment (PPE) (noun): special clothing, headgear, goggles, masks
and other garments that shield people from injury or infection. - Much of the PPE worn
by doctors and nurses has to be worn once only and destroyed after use.
quarantine (noun): isolation and monitoring of people who seem healthy but may
have been exposed to an infectious disease to see if they develop symptoms - For centuries it's been common for ships
arriving from infected areas to be kept in quarantine at
the docks, originally for 40 days which is where the term comes from.
self-isolate (verb): isolate oneself; put oneself in quarantine, away from other people - The prime minister's
wife has tested positive for COVID-19 and the couple are now self-isolating and
working by phone and Skype.
social
distancing (noun):
practice of encouraging people to minimize contact and closeness, whether by
banning large or even small groups/meetings (football matches, nightclubs), or
by maintaining a minimum distance between people (for example one metre or two
metres) - The government has instructed schools to take social
distancing measures to slow the spread of the virus.
symptomatic (adjective): showing symptoms of a particular disease - Anyone who
is symptomatic is advised to phone a
doctor and get tested.
test
negative | test positive (verb): if you take a test for an infection and you test negative, that means you do not have the
infection. If you test positive, that means you have the infection. - The
President is pleased to announce that he has tested
negative for the virus.
virus (noun): a living thing, too small to be
seen without a microscope, that causes infectious disease in animals and humans - Like all
diseases caused by viruses, the common
cold cannot be cured with antibiotics.
Coronavirus COVID-19
Vocabulary Quiz
1. People who show no signs of a given disease
are
Asymptomatic
unsymptomatic
unsympathetic
unsympathetic
2. Which is a virus?
COVID-19
Influenza
Coronavirus
3. Which is a disease?
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
Coronavirus
4. SARS-CoV-2 can _______ humans.
Defect
Effect
Infect
5. Which is most widespread?
an
outbreak
an
epidemic
a
pandemic
6. The word quarantine comes
from
the
number 40
the term guarantee
the fraction quarter
7. After showing symptoms he was told to
_______ for 14 days.
Quarantine
self-isolate
stay
in home
8. A person with symptoms of a disease _______
that disease.
Has
May
have
Can
not have
9. A disease that can be transmitted to humans
from animals is
Hypnotic
Stenotic
Zoonotic
10. He was happy to learn that his mother
tested _______ for this corona virus.
Negative
Positive
Successfully
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