INGLESE SCIENTIFICO - canale 3

Anno accademico 2019/2020 - 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

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)