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Many students are afraid of final exams.
There are copies of old exams with solutions in your Dropbox folder! Do them!
Prof. Bradley Dalton
SYLLABUS- PROGRAMMA DI STUDIO 2015/16
ENGLISH – 4 CREDITS
{Grammar consistent with European Union CEFR standards for B1/B2}
CONTACT DETAILS
DROPBOX LINKS FOR COURSE
Dispense per il nostro corso:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8zs9haul0rmzwsr/AAA_GMzI62AFY1hY5GPlA-2xa?dl=0
Materiali di consulenza
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/itmg79zkepa5dnf/AABC9pLAxXRLoEacs7u2JJZoa?dl=0
EXAM
Written Exam (50% of your final score)- All the grammar we learned. 100 Questions- multiple choice
(scelta multipla). You will be asked to identify forms, but you will not need to write or produce them
yourselves. The exam is not easy, but most of it is multiple choice. Yes, there will be questions about the
video homework, and TED links (below)
but the written homework is facoltativa.
Oral Exam (50% of your final score) - You will describe some images. You must know anatomy, "orientation
words", and some job interview questions for the final oral exam.
In lesson 9 I will answer questions about the exam, please watch it !!!
NOTE TO STUDENTS
There are many students who have decided to take this course. It is one of the largest courses that I have
ever taught. Some Italian students have never studied English: for these students I have provided a very
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basic review of English grammar in the first lessons. Most Italian students have had 6-9 years of
Experience with the English language: for these students I have tried to introduce fresh grammar that is
oriented to a European Union B2 level. B2 is the level needed to get a job.
After taking this course I hope you will be able to work with patients, read medical journals, speak on the
phone, and write professional email.
All of the videos from ted.com (below) are not facoltativa- you must watch them. All of the written
homework is facoltativa- it's not necessary.
You will need to decide how much homework is needed for you personally to pass this class, and what
you are interested in studying. Only you know how much work you need to do to pass. Some advanced
students will only watch the video lessons. Other students will feel comfortable with English, but will want
to study only the medical materials that I have included. Students who have never studied English may
want to "comminciare da capo" and study everything they can.
It is your job to decide what your English ability is, you must decide what written homework is both
interesting and useful to you.
You may contact me anytime with questions. Clearly I expect that students will not wait until exam time to
ask questions, but it is my hope that you will contact me as the course progresses.
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Lessons 1-2
Identifying the 12 verb tenses – tempismi verbali - ausiliari
Perfect Forms – tempismi verbali - ausiliari
Verb tenses as often depicted in scientific graphs and academic journals
-- HOMEWORK:
Video: (subtitles in Italian THEN English):
http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_bennett_finds_design_in_the_details
Vocabulary: Cambridge First: The Body (photocopy)
Grammar Exercises (facoltativa): OGSG Exercises 4, 5, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22
Lessons 3-4
Adjectives, "What is she like?"
Describing things, Drake Hyphens (or: hyphenated adjectives) “early-stage breast cancer, right-sided
pleural effusion, low-pitched aortic ejection systolic murmur, a three-degree difference”, etc.)
-- HOMEWORK:
Video: (subtitles in Italian THEN English):
http://www.ted.com/talks/mitchell_besser_mothers_helping_mothers_fight_hiv
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Grammar: Drake hyphens worksheet (photocopy)
Vocabulary: Study human anatomy vocabulary and prepositions!
Grammar Exercises (facoltativa): Oxford Grammar Spectrum Gold Exercises: 44, 85, 87, 93, 94, 90, 91
Lesson 5
Countable and uncountable nouns in science: information, research, study, thesis, etc
Words of Latin origin vs. words of Anglo-Saxon origin: medicine (ex. femur vs. leg, tibia vs. shin)
-- HOMEWORK:
Video: (subtitles in Italian THEN English):
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kraft_invents_a_better_way_to_harvest_bone_marrow
Vocabulary: Study human anatomy vocabulary and prepositions!
Grammar exercises (facoltativa): OGSG Exercises 69, 70 ... Photocopy in your dropbox.
Autopsy day! An interactive day where we look at diagrams (not photos) and coroner’s reports
and solve mysteries.
-- HOMEWORK:
Video: (subtitles in Italian THEN English):
http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_goldman_doctors_make_mistakes_can_we_talk_about_that
Academic Reading: read a report from a medico legale and other internal documents used in a hospital &
learn words for orientation on the human body (ex. Hind, rear, posterior, dorsal)
Lesson 6
Countable and uncountable nouns in science: information, research, study, thesis, etc
Words of Latin origin vs. words of Anglo-Saxon origin: medicine (ex. femur vs. leg, tibia vs. shin)
-- HOMEWORK:
Video: (subtitles in Italian THEN English):
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kraft_invents_a_better_way_to_harvest_bone_marrow
Vocabulary: Study human anatomy vocabulary and prepositions!
Grammar exercises (facoltativa): OGSG Exercises 69, 70 ... Photocopy in your dropbox.
Lesson 7
Expressing numbers in English: fractions, multiplication, statistics, dates, volumes, basic equations.
Questions of quantification: “How much, How many, How far, How long, How often…”
Quantifying & Measuring words: to lenghthen (long), to strengthen (strong), to widen (wide)…
-- HOMEWORK:
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Video: (subtitles in Italian THEN English):
http://www.ted.com/talks/rishi_manchanda_what_makes_us_get_sick_look_upstream
Vocabulary: Study human anatomy vocabulary and prepositions!
Grammar exercises (facoltativa): OGSG Exercises 42,43,44
Pronunciation Exercises Online (facoltativa):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/vowel_short_1.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/
Lesson 8
Learning the 9 modal verbs: (may, might, must, can, could, will, would, shall, should)
Asking questions to patients (“Could you…”, “May I…” etc.)
Reading warnings in English- Radiation, Workplace Health & Safety
-- HOMEWORK:
Video: (subtitles in Italian THEN English):
http://www.ted.com/talks/quyen_nguyen_color_coded_surgery
Vocabulary: Study human anatomy vocabulary and prepositions!
Grammar exercises (facoltativa): OGSG Exercises 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58
Lesson 9
Chronology. How do we use different forms to talk about timing and the order of events?
Lessons 10-12
Chronology, timing conditional forms 0, 1, 2, 3. How do we know when a conditional happened?
The difference between the 1st and 2nd conditional
The difference between the 2nd and 3rd conditional
Common errors with conditionals
-- HOMEWORK:
Homework: technical and medical reading in our Dropbox folder
Grammar Exercises (facoltativa): Oxford Grammar Spectrum Gold exercises 119-122
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Lesson 13
Nato alphabet for reading on the telephone. Pronunciation.
Lesson 14
The gerund; -ing form. Words with "ing" (swimming, nursing, etc), used as sostantivi.
-- HOMEWORK:
Homework: technical and medical reading in our Dropbox folder
Grammar exercises (facoltativa): Oxford Grammar Spectrum Gold exercises 113-116
Lesson 15
Identifying the 12 passive forms
-- HOMEWORK:
Homework: technical and medical reading in our Dropbox folder
Lesson 16
Sentences with no actor. The word "get" when we speak of sentences with no actor.
-- HOMEWORK:
Homework: technical and medical reading in our Dropbox folder
Lesson 17
don't have to, need not, must not
-- HOMEWORK:
Homework: technical and medical reading in our Dropbox folder
Grammar exercises (facoltativa): Oxford Grammar Spectrum Gold exercises 51, 52, 53, 58
MANUALI DI CONSULENZA
Oxford Grammar Spectrum Gold for Italian Students (ISBN 978-0-19-470633-9)
Inglese per Radiologi- Ribes/Ros – (ISBN 978-88-470-0741-3)
Cambridge English for Nursing – Allum/McGarr – (ISBN 978-0-521-14133-8)
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