FURTHER LANGUAGES - English language
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: GIORGIA MICHELA SORTINOExpected Learning Outcomes
- Development of reading, listening and comprehension skills based on audiovisual and multimedia supports.
- Acquire lexical knowledge related to the discussed topics.
- Understand an oral and written message on topics of personal, social, daily and professional field.
- Communicate correctly an oral and written message (grammar, vocabulary, intonation, pronunciation).
Course Structure
This course aims to develop participants' communicative self-sufficiency in international and multicultural contexts, which will be based on grammatical foundations and practical activities of reading and understanding texts, listening and oral and written production. Through the use of audiovisual teaching material and role playing activities, the aim is to strengthen lexical knowledge and develop critical and analytical skills in a foreign language.
If the course is taught in mixed or remote mode, the necessary variations may be introduced with respect to what was previously declared, in order to respect the planned program and reported in the syllabus.
Required Prerequisites
Excellent knowledge of the Italian language and A1 level of the English CEFR.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance at lessons is strongly recommended.
Detailed Course Content
Grammar:
- Auxiliary verbs: primary auxiliary verbs, modal auxiliary verbs;
- Stative & dynamic verbs
- Present simple
- Adverbs of frequency
- Present continuous
- Countable & uncountable nouns
- Quantifiers
- Indefinite pronouns
- Relative pronouns & clauses
- Interrogative pronouns & question words (WH-questions)
- Prepositions (luogo, moto, tempo, mezzo e compagnia)
- Imperative
- Past simple
- Present perfect
- Approach to a scientific paper
- The anatomy of the human eye
- Visual impairments
- Eyecare medical staff
Textbook Information
Teaching material provided during classes.
Recommended dictionaries:
- Il Ragazzini Inglese-Italiano/ Italiano - Inglese. Ultima edizione, ed. Zanichelli
- Delfino, Lanciotti, Liguri, Stefani. Medicina e Biologia - Medicine & Biology. Dizionario enciclopedico di scienze mediche e biologiche e di biotecnologie- Italiano/Inglese - Inglese/italiano. Terza edizione, Zanichelli.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. Kerr & C. Jones, | Straightforward. Intermediate Student’s Book. | Macmillan, | Oxford 2006. | |
| J. Waterman, | Straightforward. Intermediate Workbook with Key. | Macmillan, | Oxford 2006. | |
| E. Glendinning & R. Howard | Professional English in Use: Medicine. | Cambridge UP, | Cambridge 2008. | |
| S. Sciarretta | New Essential Grammar Structures, Terminology and Situations for Medical Purposes. | Edizioni S.p.e., | Catania 2011. | |
| A.Gentile & M.G. Scafati, | Basic English for opticians. | Franco Lucisano Editore, | Milano 1999. |
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Section A: lecture & exercises | |
| 2 | Section B: reading & translation, text comprehension activity sheets; conversation about topics |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Written exam on the grammatical topics and texts covered in class using the teaching material provided.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Modulo A: Grammar text
VERSIONE IN ITALIANO
- complete the sentence using the words in the box.
- put the nouns in the correct column.
- choose the correct quantifier and complete the following sentences.
- choose the correct verbal tenses to complete the sentences.
Modulo B: English for professional use.
- Answer the following question correctly:
-What is orthoptics?
-What is the role of the cornea and lens in focusing light?
- What does “strabismus” mean? - Name correctly the parts of structure of the retina
- Fill the blanket with the correct solution.