#55 CCAP-CLAIR (ENG) "Vaccination and Immunity"

CLAIRSTONE VOCABULARY PODCAST

Welcome to Clairstone! In this episode, you will be learning how to use the English words "vaccination" and "immunity".
We have partnered with CCAP Across the Map, which focuses on women's health. For more information, visit ccapglobal.org.
TRANSCRIPT:
Hello everyone, my name is Jasmine, and you are listening to the English ClAIRSTONE Podcast, where you can build the cornerstone of your English vocabulary! For all our new listeners, welcome to the community, and for our regulars, hello again! Before we start, I will remind you that we upload new episodes twice a week and there are transcripts for each podcast episode in Arabic, English, and Spanish at our website projectclair.org, so go check that out if you want to follow along!

We will be discussing health-related vocabulary words with the nonprofit organization CCAP Across The Map, which focuses on women’s health, for the first two episodes of every month. Today, we will look at the words “vaccination” and “immunity.”

Vaccination, spelled V-A-C-C-I-N-A-T-I-O-N, is a noun that refers to giving a medicine, or vaccine, to help keep a person from getting sick. A vaccination is often given with a needle through a muscle in the upper arm, but can also be given through other body parts, like the legs or hips, depending on the type of vaccination. An example sentence is, “Vaccinations can help prevent many types of diseases such as chicken pox, measles, and even cervical cancer!”

Immunity, spelled I-M-M-U-N-I-T-Y, is a noun that refers to protection from something. Immunity is most often used to refer to protection from diseases through vaccination. An example sentence is,“Hunter had immunity from the human papilloma virus that causes cervical cancer because she received the vaccine that protects against it.” Immunity can also refer to protection from other types of things that are not health-related. For example, if “Julie has legal immunity,” then “Julie cannot be held responsible for violation of the law because she is protected from it.”

Well, that is it for today’s episode! This was the Clairstone Podcast and an episode with CCAP Across the Map. For the full transcript for all our episodes, you can click on the info icon on our platform or go to our website projectclair.org. For more information about women’s health, visit the website ccapglobal.org. If you think you are beginning to feel sick, tell a doctor! I hope you will start to use the words “vaccination” and “immunity” in your English practice, and I will see you next time! Bye, everyone!