ENGLISH LANGUAGE

English for Specific Purpose is a pre-intermediate course that is offered to nursing students. It basically aims at equipping students with the necessary language skills they need to cope with the linguistic requirements of their specialization and to use English properly and fluently in the professional environment they are expected to join. This course seeks to develop all four skills with special emphasis on lexical acquisition and communicative skills.

Lectures and workshops

General Content:
Talking about health and fitness (asking about health, sickness and recovery);
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Distinguish Medical and General English (parts of the body, describing radiation of pain);
Describing the functions of the body (eating, five senses, other functions);
Being able to take a patient’s history (Personal Details, problems and pains, Drug history, family history, social and personal history);
Talking of Community Health (Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social workers, Chiropodists, Opticians);
Being able to examine a patient and giving him/her instructions during a physical examination session;
Systems, diseases and symptoms (Symptoms and signs)
Blood;
The heart and Circulation;
Investigations (Blood pressure, taking blood, ECG);
Being able to examine a patient and giving him/her instructions during an Examination;

Grammar Content

Present simple, present continuous;
Past simple, present perfect and present perfect continuous;
future - will, be going to and present continuous;
Simple Phrasal verbs in medical context;
comparative and superlative adjectives;
countable and uncountable nouns;
prefixes and suffixes in word formation;
compound nouns and adjectives adverbs of intensity and frequency;
present perfect simple and present perfect continuous, past perfect;
modal verbs;
-ing form and infinitive;
Idiomatic expressions;
Differences between formal and informal language.

Vince M. & Pallini L., English grammar practice for Italian students. With key, Macmillan, 1999.
Gendinning H. Eric. & Howard R., Professional English in Use: Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Malaguti F., Parini I., Roberts R., English for Nurses and Healthcare providers, CEA, 2006.
Allum V., and Mcgarr, Cambridge English for Nursing, Pre-Intermediate, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Una dispensa di parti scelte verrà messa a disposizione dalla docente all’inizio delle lezioni.