MUET Malaysian University English Test Notes

This is a recording of MUET's Malaysian University English Test, Paper 2, Speaking. For Part 1, each candidate is given a task sheet. Then, they each have two minutes to prepare their responses, after which they would be given two minutes to present. For Part 2, candidates would turn to the next page of the task sheet. They would be given three minutes to prepare and eight minutes to present. to 12 minutes to discuss the topic. In the discussion, they may support or oppose the other candidates'views. At the end of the discussion, candidates try to come to a decision on which of the suggestions is the best. This is the seating arrangement. Good morning everyone and welcome to this morning's MOUET test. There are two parts to this test. we'll start with part one first. So in this part of the test, I'm going to give each of you a question. I'd like you to talk about your question on your own for about two minutes. So here are your questions. Candidate A, candidate B, candidate C and candidate D. All right, your questions are all about ways to keep healthy. You now have two minutes to prepare your presentation, right? Thank you. Okay, candidate A, it's your turn first. Talk about the importance of what and when people eat. You may begin. Good morning, examiners and friends. So, it is important to be healthy. What are the ways to keep healthy? So, in my opinion, it is very important to know what and when people eat. For example, as we all know the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. We need to know what are the type of food that we need to eat which will keep us healthy. And it is important because it makes a strong and balanced diet. For example, consume more fruits and vegetables. When we consume more fruits and vegetables, it has a lot of minerals and vitamins which will prevent a lot of diseases such as obesity, which is a common problem in Malaysia. Besides that, we need to consume less fried food or junk foods, especially among the children. Children love junk food and we need to address to them that this food is bad. They need to eat more vegetables. And other than that, it is also important that they know when is the right time to eat. A lot of people, especially Malaysians, we love supper. And supper is actually unhealthy because after we eat the food, we have no time to actually use this energy because after that, we just go for a long rest and ready for the next day. And this will cause all this food to be converted into fats and lead to obesity. Hence, we need to ensure that we eat three meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Because these are the right time where, especially breakfast, when we eat breakfast, then we go to school or we go to work, which is where you actually use up the calories. And it's also important to note that we need to eat more carbohydrates, especially for the teenagers, the younger generation. They need all these energies to carry out their daily activities. And of course they need to eat in sufficient amount. And that's why I believe that it is important to know what and when people eat. Thank you candidate A. Candidate B talked about the importance of exercise. Very good morning to examiners and my fellow candidates. Today I'll be talking about the importance of exercise that will be able to keep us healthy in daily life. First and foremost, I feel like while you're exercising, you're able to keep your body healthy. to stay away from sicknesses and diseases. When you exercise, your excretory system goes to work and your sweat, which will excrete out from your sweat glands, consists of mineral salts and all these toxic substances, while you excrete out, it's able to eliminate and able to help your body to function. normally and when you ex-element all this toxic you're able to keep yourself healthy by eliminating all the possibility of getting diseases such as obesity that will lead to diabetes, heart attack and blood pressure. For example, obesity if you do not exercise and you eat and eat your fat to acclimate and somehow you will clog your blood vessels and this will lead the bloods to not be transported to your parts of your body and this will actually lead to heart attack and may result in death and this is not a healthy way to live. healthy lifestyle. My second point will be it helps with mental health. Normally when you exercise you're able to release a hormone called dopamine and this will actually help you to become happier. It's a happy hormone and when you have dopamine you're able to reduce the chances of getting depressed and while you exercise also you are able to release stress and my last point will be instead of talking about physically and mentally we could also talk about exercising you are able to have developed a healthy relationship among one another. That's also a healthy lifestyle. When you're exercising, you're able to interact with one another, you're able to talk with one another, discuss and have fun and this will actually help you to also release stress and also have a healthy relationship with one another. In conclusion, I believe that exercising could actually keep you healthy. All right, thank you candidate B. Candidate C, talk about the importance of seeing the doctor regularly. You may begin. A very good morning to the examiners and the fellow candidates. Why do I feel like seeing the doctor is very important in order for us to be healthy? One reason is that when we are able to see a doctor regularly, we are able to go for checkups often. That's one of the reasons why we go see the doctor. So when we get checkups often, we know if our body is in a healthy condition or not. We are able to detect early. detection of any kind of diseases like cancer, diabetes or probably if you are prone to heart attacks. Also when we go for checkups often we know how to improve our health if we are having let's say if we were to have early stages of diabetes we know how to improve ourselves you know probably the doctor will give us medication or he will tell us what kind of foods for us to eat so in order for us to be healthy. Also when we are able to go for when we when we When we see the doctor regularly, early detection of diseases can be prevented. Prevented from spreading, we can know how to make ourselves better. Also, when we see a doctor regularly, we are able to keep ourselves healthy because Because in conclusion, I believe that it's important to see the doctor regularly in order for us to be healthy. Alright, thank you Candidate C. Candidate D, talk about the importance of getting enough rest. Now when we talk about rest, I believe that there are two parts to this. Rest involves both sleep and relaxation as well. So through rest, the first thing is that you get to reduce your stress. Now one of the few famous well-known people such as Steve Jobs, he would spend at least around 10 to 20 minutes a day in his office just to meditate, to relax and rest. Whereas Elon Musk who always spent his Sundays, his full Sundays, just to relax and spend time with his family. So this is ways that people, they schedule time to really just rest and relax because they understand the importance of rest, that it helps reduce the stress from the workload. that they have. Next, following that is that rest will help control your alertness and your mood. Now, when you lack rest, your alertness towards your surroundings drop. This could pose a health risk, whereas when you are walking, you're unable to walk properly and you do not notice certain things such as sharp edges of the table or when you're going down a staircase and you may trip and fall. So that's a risk for your health and your mood as well, because If you don't have the right mood, you'll get angry, you get stressed out easily, and this affects your mental health. Lack of sleep could also even lead to hallucination, which is dangerous where you start seeing things where you're not supposed to. Next thing about rest could also relate to your growth. So there is a proven relationship between enough sleep and your growth. If you lack sleep, you are unable to develop in your growth properly. This is why parents, teachers, and everyone else keep... Always encourage kids to sleep early and get at least about 8 hours of sleep a day, especially if you are a child who is still growing up. Last but not least, rest does support your immune system as well. There was this man who couldn't sleep, who developed a disease where he couldn't sleep. So as he went on and went on and couldn't sleep, he ended up dying because his immune system just couldn't continue supporting him anymore. In conclusion, I believe that having enough rest is very important for your health. All right, thank you, Candidate D. So that's the end of Part 1. Now we'll move on to Part 2. Turn to the other side of your paper. Now in this part of the test, you're going to discuss for about 8 to 12 minutes about how healthcare can best be improved. On this page, there are some ideas to help you. In your discussion, you may support or oppose the other candidates'views. And at the end of the discussion, try to decide on the best suggestion. You now have three minutes to prepare. Alright, so let's start with our discussion. So discuss how healthcare can best be improved. You may begin. A very good morning, Jane Zeman and my fellow candidates. I believe that two of the best ways to improve healthcare will be having more doctors because the wait time for general hospital is too long. For example, general hospital in University of Toronto, Hospital University, we have to take turns and when you like to do an operation you need to wait for your call which is which acclimated to days and weeks and months and this will actually affect people to go to private university but normally people go to general university a general hospital are people who don't have sufficient money to go to the private so if they go if they are forced and they have to wait to go to the general hospital. They are forced to go to private, but they do not have enough money to go for treatment. And this will actually result in healthcare in Malaysia to drop because they are not able to treat their sicknesses. And looking at the education, if we are able to educate the people of Malaysia, for example, taking care of our own hygiene, for example, we are able to clean, we have to educate the Malaysians to wash our hands before and after taking food, and this will actually eliminate reduce the possibility of getting sicknesses. What do you guys think? I partially agree with you candidate B. I disagree with the part that you say that we will need more doctors to improve the quality of healthcare in Malaysia because I believe the number of doctors in Malaysia, there's Quite a lot that is pursuing the doctor field but I think what's more important is to train the nurses better because they most of them that from what we know is that they are they need to be trained to be more sharp and more alert to assist the doctors and some nurses because they are not the doctor they are not the one that is mainly in charge of the of the patients they might have they might lose the sense of responsibility to make sure that the patient is treated properly. And that's why, and some also don't take their jobs seriously, like they're playing their phones when they're working. And we need to train all these nurses to be better. But I agree with you that education is very important. As you all know, in the past, there is the cholera disease, this pandemic disease, right? Or more recently, the Ebola virus. All these things happen. Because there is not enough education to educate the public and it can be done in several ways. For example, we can use through social media or news. It will educate the public that this virus will cause very serious problems. What do you all think? I agree with Candidate A and B that education and more doctors do help. But I think one point that we could actually look at is cleanliness quality of the country. Now see, looking at the cleanliness quality, Thinking about how diseases come about in the first place is because of fear, because of bacteria, because of viruses. So if the cleanliness quality of the country is well maintained, this will reduce the risk of having and developing diseases in the first place. For example, H1N1, which was a disease beginning from the pig, was it, if I'm not mistaken, correct? So if the health quality of our country was maintained in the first place, that virus would not have... developed and would not have spread throughout and hence our quality of health would have been maintained. What do you guys think? I agree with what you've said, all of you. But also, I have to say one way that we can improve healthcare in Malaysia is by improving our hospital buildings. You see, right now most of the hospitals that we have here, especially the general hospitals, they're all run down, they're old, they don't have many facilities that are able to hold many people since we do have a large number of people in Malaysia who do require health care, especially in general hospitals. So it's very important that we do fix up these places, we do add more wards, we do add bigger waiting areas and also so that we are able to handle many people, so that we're able to look at many people who are waiting to receive medical attention. Also, I feel that we should also improve and have more doctors. but not only to have more doctors, but also to have more qualified doctors. Doctors who are able to give their time and effort into helping people and not just doing it for the money. And we should also get professional doctors who don't just do half past six work when they're treating a patient, because every patient requires important attention by a professionally trained doctor. What do you guys think? So I think there is a strong link between more doctors, more hospital buildings and well-trained nurses as well, because Even though you have more doctors, you require more hospital buildings to place them in the first phase. And a doctor will not work well without having a proper assistant, which is well-trained nurses that can take care of the patients. I agree with you, Candidate D, that it has a strong link. But if we want to look at the best way to improve healthcare, I will still stand on the point that education is important. As what you mentioned earlier, that Cleanliness and all is still very important to be maintained, but how would it be maintained? You need to have people who are educated, that they know that cleanliness, if the place is not well maintained, that all these diseases, viruses would actually start spreading. And like what Candidate Bee mentioned earlier about washing hands and all this. So it all stems from education. I believe education is the grassroot that of the way that can actually improve healthcare. I agree with Candidate A and Candidate C about the point with saying more doctors and also education. But looking at more doctors, if you have more doctors, you need more hospital buildings. Because as what Candidate A said, there are a lot of doctors. And so in order to actually accommodate all these doctors, we need more hospital buildings. And instead of making more hospitals in the cities, why don't we do it in the rural areas where people who are unable to reach out to all these general hospitals, they are able to they are able to travel to the hospital nearby and get their treatment. And this actually related back to the cost of less looking at the point of course of medicine. Because rural areas people, they don't have much money to actually get a medicine, which the price of medicine are quite not that cheap. So when we lower down the cost of medicine, we're able to let more people, increase the chance of people who are unable to purchase these medicines to able to purchase the medicines. And looking at education, I agree with the candidates'points, saying that education is also one of the best way to improve healthcare. If we are able to educate people, for example, Dengue is quite a serious case in Selangor, which is the highest cases in Selangor. If we're able to educate the people in Selangor or in Malaysia about how to prevent dengue, this will actually help a lot and improve our healthcare in Malaysia. What do you guys think? I agree with you Candidate B when you were talking about the cost of medicine. I do agree that cost of medicine should be taken a look at in Malaysia especially. The medicine nowadays is very expensive. Not many people can afford it and they don't have time to wait in a hospital. to get their turn in order for them to get good proper medicine. So most people usually revert back to generic medicine which may cause a lot of side effects which are not which will add more to whatever sickness that they're having now. So when we do and so when we are able to improve the cost of medicine reducing it many people will finally be able to get good proper medicine in order to treat themselves which is also very very important. Also candidate B when you're talking about education Yes, it is very very important. Not many people know nowadays what the difference between generic medicine, good medicine, what kind of diseases they are having. So we should be educated in order to improve health care. I agree as a candidate B and candidate C that actually a course of medicine plays an important factor. Even though we may have more doctors, well-trained nurses and many hospital buildings, if you have access to those but you are unable to afford the medicine, it is basically pointless to have. a checkup with the doctor. And I agree as well that education is, like what Candidate A said, the very roots to developing a good healthcare in the country. Because with education, everyone is aware and exposed to how they may protect their own health, how they can have a balanced diet in the first place to keep themselves well, how they are educated to keep their houses clean and wash their hands before they just begin eating. Some simple little things that... can lead to a better health. I agree that cost of medicine is one of the important way to improve healthcare. But in another point of view, right, cost of medicine would be a problem if it's a private hospital. Because usually when you talk about private hospitals is where the medical bills and everything is really really high. But in like government hospitals, there's... the problem is lesser. The problem is more on the from what Candidate C said that they have to wait for a very long line. So it feels like there are several problems that require different ways to approach. Correct but I think we can agree that education has would lead to all these solutions. For example, through education with a better education you get to encourage more doctors to be passionate about their job. and you get to train nurses to be better and take more responsibly over the patients as well. With education, you also understand what type of medicines you need to consume and the proper prices for it so you do not get caught by perhaps pharmacies that are not properly regulated. Education may also teach you as well as to how to take care of yourself because not every disease will require a medical checkup. But if you don't know, then you often have to go for medical check-ups, which will just cost you too much. I agree with Candidate A and Candidate D about the points of education is very important. For example, if there is no education, the vaccination case which happened in the United States may happen in Malaysia if education is not spread widely about the vaccination. People are believing the false rumors about vaccination that it causes autism and so on. So if there is no education, parents... people who believe the false rumour will actually not vaccinate their child and this will actually affect and would actually make a new, maybe a virus outbreak again. For example, measles that has been tamed after a few years, if they do not have vaccinated their children, this disease may come back again. Looking at another point, more doctors. I agree with Kandacee about having more passionate and responsible doctors. There's a good example in Kuala Lumpur. There is a doctor called Teddy Doctor who actually provides. who provide free services to homeless people and this is the doctor we need in Malaysia to improve our healthcare. I think we're looking a lot at physical health as well but we're missing one important factor of mental health as well. Why having doctors, hospitals, well trained nurses or even cause of medicine will not help your mental health. But what will help is good education where we are taught to be aware of mental health, when to get help and how to handle mental health as well. I agree with Candidate D on the education on mental health. We nowadays, we don't really see mental health. It's what we feel on the inside and it's very, very important that we know what we are going through and being educated by this, it's one way that we can improve healthcare. In conclusion, I think we can all agree that education is the most important factor of improving our healthcare in the country. Alright, thank you very much. So can I have back your task sheets please? Thank you. So that's the end of our exam for today. Thank you very much.

For Part 2, candidates would turn to the next page of the task sheet. They would be given three minutes to prepare and eight minutes to present. to 12 minutes to discuss the topic.

In the discussion, they may support or oppose the other candidates'views. At the end of the discussion, candidates try to come to a decision on which of the suggestions is the best. This is the seating arrangement.

Good morning everyone and welcome to this morning's MOUET test. There are two parts to this test. we'll start with part one first. So in this part of the test, I'm going to give each of you a question. I'd like you to talk about your question on your own for about two minutes.

So here are your questions. Candidate A, candidate B, candidate C and candidate D. All right, your questions are all about ways to keep healthy. You now have two minutes to prepare your presentation, right?

Thank you. Okay, candidate A, it's your turn first. Talk about the importance of what and when people eat.

You may begin. Good morning, examiners and friends. So, it is important to be healthy.

What are the ways to keep healthy? So, in my opinion, it is very important to know what and when people eat. For example, as we all know the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. We need to know what are the type of food that we need to eat which will keep us healthy. And it is important because it makes a strong and balanced diet.

For example, consume more fruits and vegetables. When we consume more fruits and vegetables, it has a lot of minerals and vitamins which will prevent a lot of diseases such as obesity, which is a common problem in Malaysia. Besides that, we need to consume less fried food or junk foods, especially among the children. Children love junk food and we need to address to them that this food is bad.

They need to eat more vegetables. And other than that, it is also important that they know when is the right time to eat. A lot of people, especially Malaysians, we love supper.

And supper is actually unhealthy because after we eat the food, we have no time to actually use this energy because after that, we just go for a long rest and ready for the next day. And this will cause all this food to be converted into fats and lead to obesity. Hence, we need to ensure that we eat three meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Because these are the right time where, especially breakfast, when we eat breakfast, then we go to school or we go to work, which is where you actually use up the calories. And it's also important to note that we need to eat more carbohydrates, especially for the teenagers, the younger generation.

They need all these energies to carry out their daily activities. And of course they need to eat in sufficient amount. And that's why I believe that it is important to know what and when people eat. Thank you candidate A.

Candidate B talked about the importance of exercise. Very good morning to examiners and my fellow candidates. Today I'll be talking about the importance of exercise that will be able to keep us healthy in daily life.

First and foremost, I feel like while you're exercising, you're able to keep your body healthy. to stay away from sicknesses and diseases. When you exercise, your excretory system goes to work and your sweat, which will excrete out from your sweat glands, consists of mineral salts and all these toxic substances, while you excrete out, it's able to eliminate and able to help your body to function.

normally and when you ex-element all this toxic you're able to keep yourself healthy by eliminating all the possibility of getting diseases such as obesity that will lead to diabetes, heart attack and blood pressure. For example, obesity if you do not exercise and you eat and eat your fat to acclimate and somehow you will clog your blood vessels and this will lead the bloods to not be transported to your parts of your body and this will actually lead to heart attack and may result in death and this is not a healthy way to live. healthy lifestyle.

My second point will be it helps with mental health. Normally when you exercise you're able to release a hormone called dopamine and this will actually help you to become happier. It's a happy hormone and when you have dopamine you're able to reduce the chances of getting depressed and while you exercise also you are able to release stress and my last point will be instead of talking about physically and mentally we could also talk about exercising you are able to have developed a healthy relationship among one another. That's also a healthy lifestyle.

When you're exercising, you're able to interact with one another, you're able to talk with one another, discuss and have fun and this will actually help you to also release stress and also have a healthy relationship with one another. In conclusion, I believe that exercising could actually keep you healthy. All right, thank you candidate B.

Candidate C, talk about the importance of seeing the doctor regularly. You may begin. A very good morning to the examiners and the fellow candidates.

Why do I feel like seeing the doctor is very important in order for us to be healthy? One reason is that when we are able to see a doctor regularly, we are able to go for checkups often. That's one of the reasons why we go see the doctor.

So when we get checkups often, we know if our body is in a healthy condition or not. We are able to detect early. detection of any kind of diseases like cancer, diabetes or probably if you are prone to heart attacks.

Also when we go for checkups often we know how to improve our health if we are having let's say if we were to have early stages of diabetes we know how to improve ourselves you know probably the doctor will give us medication or he will tell us what kind of foods for us to eat so in order for us to be healthy. Also when we are able to go for when we when we When we see the doctor regularly, early detection of diseases can be prevented. Prevented from spreading, we can know how to make ourselves better. Also, when we see a doctor regularly, we are able to keep ourselves healthy because Because in conclusion, I believe that it's important to see the doctor regularly in order for us to be healthy. Alright, thank you Candidate C. Candidate D, talk about the importance of getting enough rest.

Now when we talk about rest, I believe that there are two parts to this. Rest involves both sleep and relaxation as well. So through rest, the first thing is that you get to reduce your stress.

Now one of the few famous well-known people such as Steve Jobs, he would spend at least around 10 to 20 minutes a day in his office just to meditate, to relax and rest. Whereas Elon Musk who always spent his Sundays, his full Sundays, just to relax and spend time with his family. So this is ways that people, they schedule time to really just rest and relax because they understand the importance of rest, that it helps reduce the stress from the workload.

that they have. Next, following that is that rest will help control your alertness and your mood. Now, when you lack rest, your alertness towards your surroundings drop.

This could pose a health risk, whereas when you are walking, you're unable to walk properly and you do not notice certain things such as sharp edges of the table or when you're going down a staircase and you may trip and fall. So that's a risk for your health and your mood as well, because If you don't have the right mood, you'll get angry, you get stressed out easily, and this affects your mental health. Lack of sleep could also even lead to hallucination, which is dangerous where you start seeing things where you're not supposed to. Next thing about rest could also relate to your growth.

So there is a proven relationship between enough sleep and your growth. If you lack sleep, you are unable to develop in your growth properly. This is why parents, teachers, and everyone else keep...

Always encourage kids to sleep early and get at least about 8 hours of sleep a day, especially if you are a child who is still growing up. Last but not least, rest does support your immune system as well. There was this man who couldn't sleep, who developed a disease where he couldn't sleep.

So as he went on and went on and couldn't sleep, he ended up dying because his immune system just couldn't continue supporting him anymore. In conclusion, I believe that having enough rest is very important for your health. All right, thank you, Candidate D. So that's the end of Part 1. Now we'll move on to Part 2. Turn to the other side of your paper. Now in this part of the test, you're going to discuss for about 8 to 12 minutes about how healthcare can best be improved. On this page, there are some ideas to help you.

In your discussion, you may support or oppose the other candidates'views. And at the end of the discussion, try to decide on the best suggestion. You now have three minutes to prepare.

Alright, so let's start with our discussion. So discuss how healthcare can best be improved. You may begin. A very good morning, Jane Zeman and my fellow candidates.

I believe that two of the best ways to improve healthcare will be having more doctors because the wait time for general hospital is too long. For example, general hospital in University of Toronto, Hospital University, we have to take turns and when you like to do an operation you need to wait for your call which is which acclimated to days and weeks and months and this will actually affect people to go to private university but normally people go to general university a general hospital are people who don't have sufficient money to go to the private so if they go if they are forced and they have to wait to go to the general hospital. They are forced to go to private, but they do not have enough money to go for treatment.

And this will actually result in healthcare in Malaysia to drop because they are not able to treat their sicknesses. And looking at the education, if we are able to educate the people of Malaysia, for example, taking care of our own hygiene, for example, we are able to clean, we have to educate the Malaysians to wash our hands before and after taking food, and this will actually eliminate reduce the possibility of getting sicknesses. What do you guys think? I partially agree with you candidate B.

I disagree with the part that you say that we will need more doctors to improve the quality of healthcare in Malaysia because I believe the number of doctors in Malaysia, there's Quite a lot that is pursuing the doctor field but I think what's more important is to train the nurses better because they most of them that from what we know is that they are they need to be trained to be more sharp and more alert to assist the doctors and some nurses because they are not the doctor they are not the one that is mainly in charge of the of the patients they might have they might lose the sense of responsibility to make sure that the patient is treated properly. And that's why, and some also don't take their jobs seriously, like they're playing their phones when they're working. And we need to train all these nurses to be better. But I agree with you that education is very important.

As you all know, in the past, there is the cholera disease, this pandemic disease, right? Or more recently, the Ebola virus. All these things happen. Because there is not enough education to educate the public and it can be done in several ways.

For example, we can use through social media or news. It will educate the public that this virus will cause very serious problems. What do you all think?

I agree with Candidate A and B that education and more doctors do help. But I think one point that we could actually look at is cleanliness quality of the country. Now see, looking at the cleanliness quality, Thinking about how diseases come about in the first place is because of fear, because of bacteria, because of viruses.

So if the cleanliness quality of the country is well maintained, this will reduce the risk of having and developing diseases in the first place. For example, H1N1, which was a disease beginning from the pig, was it, if I'm not mistaken, correct? So if the health quality of our country was maintained in the first place, that virus would not have...

developed and would not have spread throughout and hence our quality of health would have been maintained. What do you guys think? I agree with what you've said, all of you.

But also, I have to say one way that we can improve healthcare in Malaysia is by improving our hospital buildings. You see, right now most of the hospitals that we have here, especially the general hospitals, they're all run down, they're old, they don't have many facilities that are able to hold many people since we do have a large number of people in Malaysia who do require health care, especially in general hospitals. So it's very important that we do fix up these places, we do add more wards, we do add bigger waiting areas and also so that we are able to handle many people, so that we're able to look at many people who are waiting to receive medical attention. Also, I feel that we should also improve and have more doctors.

but not only to have more doctors, but also to have more qualified doctors. Doctors who are able to give their time and effort into helping people and not just doing it for the money. And we should also get professional doctors who don't just do half past six work when they're treating a patient, because every patient requires important attention by a professionally trained doctor. What do you guys think?

So I think there is a strong link between more doctors, more hospital buildings and well-trained nurses as well, because Even though you have more doctors, you require more hospital buildings to place them in the first phase. And a doctor will not work well without having a proper assistant, which is well-trained nurses that can take care of the patients. I agree with you, Candidate D, that it has a strong link. But if we want to look at the best way to improve healthcare, I will still stand on the point that education is important. As what you mentioned earlier, that Cleanliness and all is still very important to be maintained, but how would it be maintained?

You need to have people who are educated, that they know that cleanliness, if the place is not well maintained, that all these diseases, viruses would actually start spreading. And like what Candidate Bee mentioned earlier about washing hands and all this. So it all stems from education.

I believe education is the grassroot that of the way that can actually improve healthcare. I agree with Candidate A and Candidate C about the point with saying more doctors and also education. But looking at more doctors, if you have more doctors, you need more hospital buildings.

Because as what Candidate A said, there are a lot of doctors. And so in order to actually accommodate all these doctors, we need more hospital buildings. And instead of making more hospitals in the cities, why don't we do it in the rural areas where people who are unable to reach out to all these general hospitals, they are able to they are able to travel to the hospital nearby and get their treatment. And this actually related back to the cost of less looking at the point of course of medicine.

Because rural areas people, they don't have much money to actually get a medicine, which the price of medicine are quite not that cheap. So when we lower down the cost of medicine, we're able to let more people, increase the chance of people who are unable to purchase these medicines to able to purchase the medicines. And looking at education, I agree with the candidates'points, saying that education is also one of the best way to improve healthcare.

If we are able to educate people, for example, Dengue is quite a serious case in Selangor, which is the highest cases in Selangor. If we're able to educate the people in Selangor or in Malaysia about how to prevent dengue, this will actually help a lot and improve our healthcare in Malaysia. What do you guys think?

I agree with you Candidate B when you were talking about the cost of medicine. I do agree that cost of medicine should be taken a look at in Malaysia especially. The medicine nowadays is very expensive. Not many people can afford it and they don't have time to wait in a hospital. to get their turn in order for them to get good proper medicine.

So most people usually revert back to generic medicine which may cause a lot of side effects which are not which will add more to whatever sickness that they're having now. So when we do and so when we are able to improve the cost of medicine reducing it many people will finally be able to get good proper medicine in order to treat themselves which is also very very important. Also candidate B when you're talking about education Yes, it is very very important.

Not many people know nowadays what the difference between generic medicine, good medicine, what kind of diseases they are having. So we should be educated in order to improve health care. I agree as a candidate B and candidate C that actually a course of medicine plays an important factor.

Even though we may have more doctors, well-trained nurses and many hospital buildings, if you have access to those but you are unable to afford the medicine, it is basically pointless to have. a checkup with the doctor. And I agree as well that education is, like what Candidate A said, the very roots to developing a good healthcare in the country.

Because with education, everyone is aware and exposed to how they may protect their own health, how they can have a balanced diet in the first place to keep themselves well, how they are educated to keep their houses clean and wash their hands before they just begin eating. Some simple little things that... can lead to a better health. I agree that cost of medicine is one of the important way to improve healthcare.

But in another point of view, right, cost of medicine would be a problem if it's a private hospital. Because usually when you talk about private hospitals is where the medical bills and everything is really really high. But in like government hospitals, there's... the problem is lesser.

The problem is more on the from what Candidate C said that they have to wait for a very long line. So it feels like there are several problems that require different ways to approach. Correct but I think we can agree that education has would lead to all these solutions.

For example, through education with a better education you get to encourage more doctors to be passionate about their job. and you get to train nurses to be better and take more responsibly over the patients as well. With education, you also understand what type of medicines you need to consume and the proper prices for it so you do not get caught by perhaps pharmacies that are not properly regulated.

Education may also teach you as well as to how to take care of yourself because not every disease will require a medical checkup. But if you don't know, then you often have to go for medical check-ups, which will just cost you too much. I agree with Candidate A and Candidate D about the points of education is very important. For example, if there is no education, the vaccination case which happened in the United States may happen in Malaysia if education is not spread widely about the vaccination. People are believing the false rumors about vaccination that it causes autism and so on.

So if there is no education, parents... people who believe the false rumour will actually not vaccinate their child and this will actually affect and would actually make a new, maybe a virus outbreak again. For example, measles that has been tamed after a few years, if they do not have vaccinated their children, this disease may come back again. Looking at another point, more doctors.

I agree with Kandacee about having more passionate and responsible doctors. There's a good example in Kuala Lumpur. There is a doctor called Teddy Doctor who actually provides. who provide free services to homeless people and this is the doctor we need in Malaysia to improve our healthcare.

I think we're looking a lot at physical health as well but we're missing one important factor of mental health as well. Why having doctors, hospitals, well trained nurses or even cause of medicine will not help your mental health. But what will help is good education where we are taught to be aware of mental health, when to get help and how to handle mental health as well.

I agree with Candidate D on the education on mental health. We nowadays, we don't really see mental health. It's what we feel on the inside and it's very, very important that we know what we are going through and being educated by this, it's one way that we can improve healthcare. In conclusion, I think we can all agree that education is the most important factor of improving our healthcare in the country.

Alright, thank you very much. So can I have back your task sheets please? Thank you. So that's the end of our exam for today. Thank you very much.

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MUET Malaysian University English Test Notes