Scientific English
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: SALVATORE SCIARRETTAExpected Learning Outcomes
The course enables students to acquire the language skills necessary to be able to read and understand the contents of papers and publications on biomedical topics and communicate with patients and medical staff in the Anglophile countries.
Detailed Course Content
• basic grammar of the English language, with particular attention to the most frequently used forms in the scientific literature;
• main linguistic functions;
• linguistic functions oriented to health and welfare issues, and obstetricians;
• specific vocabulary of the medical-care environment;
• deepening of diseases;
• readings and articles regarding procedures, examinations and clinical tests as well as clinical cases both from the reference texts and from handouts provided by the teacher.
Textbook Information
S. Sciarretta, ENGLISH FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND MEDICAL STUDENTS
scientific handouts provided by the teacher
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ARGOMENTI Si illustreranno le seguenti strutture grammaticali: parti del discorso; fare domande e rispondere, uso dei nomi e articoli; congiunzioni uso di aggettivi con il comparativo/superlativo e avverbi. le preposizioni e i loro usi; i pronomi, determinativi e quantificatori. verbi: present simple; present continous; past simple; past continous; il futuro con will/going to; present perfect e i tempi condizionali. la forma del passivo di questi verbi. uso dei verbi con l’infinito o la forma in –ing; uso d | |
| 2 | ei verbi modali. in modo particolare lessico di base –reparti ospedalieri, specializzazioni, parti del corpo e in modo particolare dell’ anatomia e fisiologia dell’apparato genitale femminile,il travaglio e il parto. who and what is a midwife? international code of ETHICS FOR MIDWIVES | S. Sciarretta, ENGLISH FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND MEDICAL STUDENTS dispense scientifiche fornite dal docente |
| 3 | reparti ospedalieri, specializzazioni, parti del corpo e in modo particolare dell’ anatomia e fisiologia dell’apparato genitale femminile,il travaglio e il parto. who and what is a midwife? international code of ETHICS FOR MIDWIVES | S. Sciarretta, ENGLISH FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND MEDICAL STUDENTS dispense scientifiche fornite dal docente |