Teacher makes a question to students: How common is to receive a patient with a heart disease or heart attack? Teacher elicits more information regarding the heart

Teacher discuss the questions from the presentation with students: Answer Key: I The cardiac cycle includes all events which occur from the beginning of one heartbeat to the beginning of the next heartbeat, for example systole and diastole. 2 The atria and ventricles contract and then the whole heart relaxes. 3 Shortness of breath, as not enough blood is oxygenated by the lungs. 4 The nurse in the Cardiac Unit is sometimes required to teach patients about the cardiac cycle in order to explain some of the cardiac tests or procedures which patients have before heart surgery.

Teacher provides a reading for gist activity in which the students will have less time to read the text and answer the questions provided.

Teacher asks students to read again the text and this time provide more specific information about some parts of the heart.

With the information provided, teacher provides a role playing activit in whi the student in the role of a nurse will explain the teacher in the role of the patient, how the heart works