SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH
Course unit partition: BORGO VAL DI TARO/FIDENZA

Academic year 2008/09
1° year of course -
Professor
Academic discipline
Indefinito/interdisciplinare (NN)
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
Lingua/Prova Finale
15 hours
of face-to-face activities
1.5 credits
hub: BORGO VAL DI TARO/FIDENZA
course unit
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Course unit partition: SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH

Learning objectives

<br />Acquisition by students of the capability of understanding English texts of scientific, medical or professional matter, in order to get up to date and improve their professional knowledge and skills.

Prerequisites

None

Course unit content

<br />Terminology: overall medical terminology; specific medical terminology concerning anatomy, physiology and pathology of the acoustic, ophthalmic, pulmonary, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, renal, osteo-articular and muscular-skeletal apparatuses. Terminology concerning  central and peripheral nervous systems and the endocrine system.<br />Reading and translation of medical-scientific texts.<br />Grammar: articles (a/an, the); countable + uncountable nouns; alphabet + spelling; cardinal + ordinal numbers; personal pronouns; object pronouns; possessive adjectives/pronouns; Saxon genitive; position of adjectives; some/any; much/many , a lot of; there is /there are; how much?/how many? Prepositions; adjectives + adverbs; word order; question forms. Tenses: verbs – to be/to have/have got/can /must/ present continuous/ simple present/ future tenses: (will; -ing; to be; going to)/ present perfect/ past tense/ present perfect continuous + duration form (how long? since/ for)/ past perfect/ past continuous. Modal verbs: can/ could/ be able to/ may/ might/ have to/ may/ may have/ might have/ needn’t/ needn’t have. Conditionals and Past Conditionals: would/ should/ could/ would have/ should have/ could have. The passive voice; Comparatives and superlatives; “if” clauses; relative clauses; linkers (connectors); compound nouns; prefixes and suffixes; irregular verbs; modal verbs – present and past tenses.

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />1.”Say Ah” by Alison Wardle Volume I. Editor: Piccin.<br />2.“English on duty” by Linda Massari and Mary Jo Teriaca. Editor: Scienza Medica

Teaching methods

<br />Didactics: <br />teaching and learning activities by making use of audiovisual instruments; interactive discussions.<br /> <br />Examination Tests:<br />written translation of English texts; multiple choice questions.

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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