Identifying the 12 verb tenses – tempismi verbali - ausiliari Perfect Forms – tempismi verbali - ausiliari Verb tenses as often depicted in scientific graphs and academic journals 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.) 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) 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)… 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 Chronology. How do we use different forms to talk about timing and the order of events? 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 conditional Nato alphabet for reading on the telephone. Pronunciation The gerund; -ing form. Words with "ing" (swimming, nursing, etc), used as sostantivi. Identifying the 12 passive forms Sentences with no actor. The word "get" when we speak of sentences with no actor. don't have to, need not, must not

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