INGLESE SCIENTIFICO - canale 3
Anno accademico 2017/2018 - 1° anno
Docente: Nicola Maurizio Strazzanti
Crediti: 6
Organizzazione didattica: 150 ore d'impegno totale, 108 di studio individuale, 42 di lezione frontale
Semestre: 2°
ENGLISH VERSION
Crediti: 6
Organizzazione didattica: 150 ore d'impegno totale, 108 di studio individuale, 42 di lezione frontale
Semestre: 2°
ENGLISH VERSION
Obiettivi formativi
Sviluppare il lessico e l’uso delle funzioni della lingua inglese per scopi comunicativi relativi all’ambito medico-scientifico.
Sviluppare le abilità di ascolto e produzione orale.
Fornire agli studenti uno strumento pragmatico per l’investigazione linguistica e l’analisi di testi specifici relativi all’ambito medico-scientifico.
Prerequisiti richiesti
Conoscenza generale della lingua inglese al livello B1 del CEFR
Frequenza lezioni
70%
Contenuti del corso
- Basics. Medical and paramedical personnel and places. Education and training. Systems diseases and symptoms. Investigations. Treatment. Prevention. Epidemiology. Ethics. Research. Taking a history. Examination. Presentations.
- Word-building. Parts of speech. Pronunciation. Vocabulary in context. Puzzles and quizzes
- Esercitazioni (grammar, vocabulary, skills)
Testi di riferimento
- Eric H. Glendinning, Ron Howard. Professional English in Use. Medicine. Cambridge UP. 2007
- Rawdon Wyatt. Check your English Vocabulary for Medicine. A&C Black. 2006
- Dispense:
i) Malcolm Mann, Steve Taylore-Knowles. Destination C1&C2. Grammar and Vocabulary. Macmillan. 2008 (Units 3, 4, 17, 18);
ii) Hugh Dellar, Andrew Walkley. Outcomes Advanced. Heinle Cenange Learning. 2012 (Units 7, 10);
iii) Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig. New English File Upper-Intermediate. Oxford UP. 2008 (Units 1C, 4C, 6C);
iv) Jack C. Richards, Chuck Sandy. Passages. Cambridge UP. 2014 (Unit 11);
v) Mark Bartram, Richard Walton, Elizabeth Sharman. Venture B1+. Oxford UP. 2016 (Unit 7)
Programmazione del corso
| Argomenti | Riferimenti testi | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basics (health and illness, parts and functions of the body) | Glendinning, Howard. Professional English in Use |
| 2 | Medical and paramedical personnel and places (practitioners, nurses, allied health professionals, hospitals, primary care) | Glendinning, Howard. Professional English in Use |
| 3 | Education and training Systems diseases and symptoms (symptoms and signs, blood, bones, childhood, endocrine system, eye, gastrointestinal system, gynecology, heart and circulation, infections, mental illness, nervous system, oncology, pregnancy and childbirth, respiratory system, skin, urinary system) | Glendinning, Howard. Professional English in Use |
| 4 | Investigations (basic investigations, laboratory tests, endoscopy, x-ray and CT, MRI and ultrasound, ECG | Glendinning, Howard. Professional English in Use |
| 5 | Treatment (medical treatment, surgical treatment, therapies) Prevention (screening and immunization) | Glendinning, Howard. Professional English in Use |
| 6 | Epidemiology Ethics (medical ethics) | Glendinning, Howard. Professional English in Use |
| 7 | Research (research studies) | Glendinning, Howard. Professional English in Use |
| 8 | Taking a history Examination (explaining diagnosis and management, discussing treatment, giving bad news) | Glendinning, Howard. Professional English in Use |
| 9 | Presentations (data presentation, research articles, abstracts, conference presentations, case presentations) | Glendinning, Howard. Professional English in Use |
| 10 | Word-building (word association: missing links; word formation: nouns; two-word expressions; plural formation; word formation: adjectives; word association: partnerships; opposites: prefixes; word formation: verbs; word association: mind maps) | Wyatt. Check your English Vocabulary for Medicine |
| 11 | Parts of speech (nouns; adjectives; verbs; verbs: past tense regular verbs; verbs: mixed tenses; phrasal verbs; verbs: active/passive; adverbs; prepositions) | Wyatt. Check your English Vocabulary for Medicine |
| 12 | Pronunciation (word stress, present simple, past tense) | Wyatt. Check your English Vocabulary for Medicine |
| 13 | Vocabulary in context (good advice, multiple meaning, odd one out, body parts, opposites, abbreviations, symptoms and common illnesses, diagnosis, how it works, instruments and equipment, chemistry) | Wyatt. Check your English Vocabulary for Medicine |
| 14 | Puzzles and quizzes (anagrams, parts of the body, communicative crosswords, word search, gap fill crossword, quiz) | Wyatt. Check your English Vocabulary for Medicine |
| 15 | Past time, change and technology, clauses, reactions and health | Mann, Taylore-Knowles. Destination C1&C2. Grammar and Vocabulary (Units 3, 4, 17, 18) |
| 16 | Passives, word formation, modal verbs, operations, body actions, medical conditions | Dellar, Walkley. Outcomes Advanced. (Units 7, 10) |
| 17 | Present perfect, illness and treatment, verbs of the senses, the body, qualifiers (all, every, etc.), science | Oxenden, Latham-Koenig. New English File Upper-Intermediate. (Units 1C, 4C, 6C) |
| 18 | Indefinite and definite articles, present perfect, present perfect continuous, science reports, scientific processes | Richards, Sandy. Passages. (Unit 11) |
| 19 | Could/couldn’t, managed to, was/were able to, past perfect, before / after / when / by the time, health and fitness, medical science | Bartram, Walton, Sharman. Venture B1+. (Unit 7) |
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