Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia - Guida degli insegnamenti (Syllabus)
Basic knowledge of the English Grammar
Afterwards the students will learn the Nursery vocabulary which will be used in dialogues, text and listening comprehensions. Besides they will carry out readings about general and specific medicine concerning their professional area: which will be the main part of the course objectives along with the grammar support.
from "English in Medicine"
- Asking basic questions about symptoms and systems
- Scanning a case history
from “Test Your Professional English Medical”
and from “English for nurses and healthcare providers”
1) The Profession of nursing
2) Body Systems
3) Equipment (Strumenti infermieristici)
4) Dealing with the patient
5) The Heart
6) Hospital environment
7) The hospital
8) The wards of a hospital
9) People in the hospital
10) Nurse's work
11) Parts of the body
12) The human body
13) The nervous system
14) The respiratory system
15) Embryo to birth
16) Things on the Ward
The students will perform an Entry test to verify their knowledge and level of the English Language, thus the teacher will deepen the fundamental grammar matters such as:
Definite and Indefinite articles
Prepositions of time and place
Possessive adjectives and pronouns
Wh-Questions
Comparative and Superlatives
Indefinite Pronouns
to be
to have
simple present
Much – Many a lot of
present continuous
simple past
past progressive
present perfect simple
futures (Will, to be going to, Present Continuous)
some – any
The written exam is divided into: a grammar test, a case history and a dialogue; the human body and nurse's tools.
a) English in Medicine
b) Glendinning E. Holmstrom B.
c) Ed. Cambridge University Press (1998)
a) Test your professional English, Medical Series
b) Alison Pohl
c) Ed. Nick Bruger (Penguin English Guides) roor
a) English for nurses
b) Austin D. Crosfield T.
c) Ed. Longman
a) Grammar Matters
b) M. Bonomi
c) Ed. Principato
a) English for nurses and healthcare providers
b) Francesca Malaguti; Ilaria Parini; Rosalind Roberts
c) Ed. casa editrice Ambrosiana
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