190 Ready-to-Use Activities That Make English Fun!

For all English teachers, 190 Ready-to-Use Activities That Make English Fun focuses on vocabulary and language development, grammar and usage, problem solving, thinking and reasoning, and creative writing—for use in all your classes with students of varying ability levels. All the activities are classroom-tested and presented in a variety of lively formats that are fun and entertaining to complete. They feature word grids, word searcher, word puzzles, alphabetizing, word sorts, word substitutions, sentence completions, story completions, and more–all within a context that is designed to ignite and hold students’ interest. For quick access and easy use, the activities are printed in a large format that folds flat for photocopying and are organized into seven sections, each focusing on a different area of the English curriculum. List of contributors

Preface

Micro- and Macrovascular Complications of Diabetes

The burden of diabetes complications

Risk factors

Diabetic nephropathy

Coronary heart disease and diabetes

Diabetes and cerebrovascular disease

Erectile dysfunction

Evidence0based interventions to prevent or retard vascular complications

Diabetic Retinopathy and Associated Ophthalmic Disorders

Diabetic retinpathy: epidemiology and risk factors

Classification and diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy

Pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy

Diabetic maculopathy

Proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Non-retinal diabetic ocular complications

Pictorial case studies

Diabetic Neuropathy

Diabetic neuropathy: epidemiology and risk factors

Classification and diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy

Pathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy

Treatment of diabetic neuropathy

Pathogenesis of Glycaemic Vascular Dysfunction

Pathophysiological mechanisms

Protein kinase C

Protein kinase C activation and vascular permeability

Harmful effects of protein kinase C activation in cardiovascular and renal tissues

Therapeutic potential for isoform-selective protein kinase C inhibitors

Index

GEORGE WATSON has taught almost every elementary and junior high school subject during his 28 years of teaching. He most recently taught special education classes for grades 8 and 9 at Alexander Junior High School in the North Battleford (Saskatchewan) Public School Division. Mr. Watson also conducts in-service programs for teachers and parent-teacher organizations and speaks at local conventions. He is the author of Teacher Smart: 125 Tested Techniques for Classroom Management and Control, The Classroom Discipline Problem Solver, 190 Ready-to-Use Activities That Make Math Fun, and 190 Ready-to-Use Activities That Make Science Fun.