English language
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: SAMANTHA RUSSOExpected Learning Outcomes
The English course aim is to provide the students with the main language structures and the ability to understand and translate English texts of scientific topic. In particular, the students should become familiar with scientific terminology in English.
Course Structure
Frontal lessons. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus. Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
The English course provides for the acquisition of medical terminology related to the osteo-articular and muscular-skeletal systems as well as the knowledge of English grammar and syntax necessary for scientific writing. Furthermore, the students are required to analyze the IMRAD structure characterizing the most reputable research articles.
Textbook Information
1. Eric H. Glendinning, Ron Howard, Professional English in Use, Medicine, Cambridge
2. Roberta Losano, Inglese scientifico, Manuale d’uso, Edizioni Minerva Medica
3. Grammatica: testo a scelta dello studente
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grammar • definite and indefinite articles (a, the) • Personal subject and object pronouns • Possessive adjectives and pronouns • Question words • Relative pronouns and relative clauses • Plurals: countable and uncountable nouns | 3. grammatica a scelta dello studente |
| 2 | • Partitivi: some/any; much/many, a lot of • Preposizioni (spazio, posizione e tempo) • Genitivo sassone • Comparativi e superlativi • Ordine delle parole: posizione degli aggettivi e avverbi, • Connettori • False friends | 3. grammatica a scelta dello studente |
| 3 | • Verbi ausiliari: to be/to have/have got/to do • Modi e tempi verbali: present simple/ present continuous / futuro: (will/ -ing/ to be going to)/ present perfect/ passato/ present perfect continuous + duration form (how long? since/ for)/ past perfect | 3. grammatica a scelta dello studente |
| 4 | past continuous/ past perfect continuous, condizionale presente e passato: would/ should/ could/ would have/ should have/ could have, “if” clauses, voce passiva. • Verbi modali: can/ could/ be able to/ may/ might/ have to/ must/ should | 3. grammatica a scelta dello studente |
| 5 | Terminologia Medico-scientifica • Parti del corpo: termini anatomici e parole della lingua comune • Funzioni del corpo • Apparato osteo-articolare • Professioni sanitarie (fisioterapisti) | Testo 1 – Units 1,2,3,4, 8 (B), 16 e 42 (sezione B) |
| 6 | • Articoli di ricerca, abstracts e presentazione dei dati • Appendix 1 (Parts of the body) and Appendix 2 (Verbs used in instructions). | Testo 1 - Units 55,56,57,58, Appendix 1-2 |
| 7 | • Scelte stilistiche dell'Inglese Scientifico: Passive Voice, Noun style, Hedging • Scelte sintattiche dell'Inglese Scientifico: uso dei tempi verbali (Present e Past tense) e dei Modali. • Scelte lessicali dell'Inglese Scientifico: Compounding | Testo 2 – Cap. 3 |