"G. d'Annunzio"
Knowledge of basic english grammar
The course aims to provide the basic grammar and a part of the technical vocabulary necessary for students for both the understanding of scientific articles and English books, and for the communication with potential foreign patients or for work placement in English countries.
The program is aimed at the students' acquisition of the main linguistic functions, basic grammatical structures, with a particular attention to the specialistic medical terminology.
GRAMMAR
- present tenses (simple, continuous) - past tenses (simple, continuous) - present perfect - future tenses (present simple, present continuous, will, be going to ...) - countable and uncountable nouns - prepositions - adverbs and adjctives - quantifiers
MORPHOLOGY
- word formation - medical word formation
MEDICAL VOCABULARY
- human body - What is Orthoptics and Ophtamology - the eye - light refraction in the eye - eye defects and diseases and treatments
Grammatica pratica dell’inglese dalla A alla Z, Hoepli, 1997
My Grammar Lab Intermediate B1/B2, Pearson, 2012
English for Medicine, Hoepli, 2020
A. Hutton, An Introduction to Medical terminology for Healthcare, Elsevier, 2002
Listenings, exercises, translations and reading comprehensions during class course hours.
Written exam
Compulsory attendance
