KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE



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JOINT ASSIGNMENT: Health-English-Speech

HOME REMEDIES

Assignment: Choose a health issue that you have learned about in your health class (stress, head-ache, high blood pressure, infectious disease, common cold/flu etc.) that you know of a home remedy for. Additionally, how would the Aborigines treat this problem?

Please follow the basic guidelines of essay writing. Provide an introduction, a body and a conclusion. This essay, however, will be shorter than your other essays—only a page or two.

After you edit your essay in your English class, you will use this essay for your final oral presentation in your Speech class.

Organize your assignment in the following way:

1) Health Problem ____________________________________________________

a) What are the symptoms? __________________________________________________________________

b) What are the causes? ________________________________________________

c) What are the conventional treatments? __________________________________

d) What home remedy do you use to treat this problem? __________________________________________________________________

2) Your Home Remedy and You:

a) Is this is an old family tradition, or something new? __________________________________________________________________

b) Where is it from? (In other words, where are you from?) __________________________________________________________________

c) What are the ingredients in this home remedy? ____________________________

d) Where can you buy these ingredients? ___________________________________

e) How do you employ this home remedy? (a drink, a compress…) __________________________________________________________________

3) What home remedy do the Aborigines use to treat this health problem? __________________________________________________________________

a) What is this? (a fruit, a leaf, a bark…) __________________________________________________________________

b) How do they employ it? __________________________________________________________________

4) Conclusion, or Final Evaluation

a) What can you say about home remedies in general?

b) Do you prefer to use home remedies? Why/Why not?

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