Scientific English

Expected learning outcomes are the following: students will develop lexical, morphological and syntactic language skills aimed to understand and interpret scientific texts and articles in their specific subject area.

The following teaching methods will be adopted: Frontal and formal interactive teaching by means of reading/listening and comprehensions, translations and analyses of medical texts with true/false questions, gap fills, grammar exercises, multiple choice questions, Use of English and open questions.

A level A2-B1  is recommended. 

Attendance of lectures is not compulsory but strongly suggested.

Course Structure

The course is divided into 14 hours of lectures, including practical exercises and interaction.The course aims to achieve the linguistic and communicative skills corresponding to the B1.1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, with reference to intermediate listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are expected to acquire linguistic knowledge aiming at improving their use of grammatical and syntactic-textual content in different contexts. The synthetic objectives of the course are: 1. Acquisition of knowledge and understanding; 2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding; 3.Communication skills. 

Testbooks information.

Books in use:
2) Specific chapters from  Scientific books:
1) Any grammar book referring to B1-B1+ of the Common European Framework of reference for languages. 

The final exam will include a written test with multiple choice questions, true or false, open questions.

Types of exercises for the written exam: multiple choice questions, cloze test using given words, insert the correct form of the verb, matching exercises, true or false, open questions.