FURTHER LANGUAGES - English language

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: ANNARITA GIUSY PIAZZA

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course aims at improving the receptive and productive skills and the English language knowledge in key areas of nursing, enabling healthcare professionals to work confidently and effectively in a multi-ethnic environment and/or in an English speaking country. The course aims at developing the four communicative skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) with enphasis on speaking, reading and lexical acquisition.

Course Structure

To reach the objectives, lessons and activities based on everyday nursing scenario will be carried out: listening and reading activities, fill-in the blanks.

Required Prerequisites

Pre-intermediate level of English proficiency.

Attendance of Lessons

70% of the total number of hours.

Detailed Course Content

The Hospital and the hospital team (a job interview, the nursing profession, verbs for describing jobs, hospital departments, nursing in the UK, nursing grades);

- facing accidents and emergencies (first aid, giving instructions, describing and assessing pain, signs and symptoms of shock);

- monitoring the patient (taking vital signs, describing readings, signs and symptoms of hypothermia, general anaesthetic);

- medication (types and forms of medication, dosages);

- infectious diseases and hygiene (routes of transmission, adjectives to describe symptoms, a hygiene report, pandemics);

- nutrition and eating-related problems (diabetes, eating disorders).

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.

Textbook Information

1. T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013;

2. T. Grice and J. Greenan, Nursing 2, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013;

3. M. Vince, New Get Inside Language, A1-B2+ levels, MACMILLAN education, 2017.

Author	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN

Course Planning

	Subjects	Text References
1	The Hospital Vocabulary (jobs, verbs, departments).	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
2	Listening and speaking activities (admission, a job interview). Writing activity (a job application).	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
3	Reading activity (The Nursing Profession).	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
4	Facing accidents and emergencies (first aid, giving instructions, describing and assessing pain).	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
5	Signs and symptoms of a shock.	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
6	Reading activity (Pain).	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
7	Writing activity (writing a pain report).	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
8	The passive form.	M. Vince, New Get Inside Language, A1-B2+ levels, MACMILLAN education, 2017.
9	Monitoring the patient, describing readings.	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
10	Listening and speaking activity (a scan, reporting the patient's progress).	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
11	Signs and symptoms of hypothermia.	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
12	Routes of transmission (filling-in and completing a table).	T. Grice and J. Greenan, Nursing 2, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
13	Listening activity (a hygiene report).	T. Grice and J. Greenan, Nursing 2, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
14	Talk about obligations.	M. Vince, New Get Inside Language, A1-B2+ levels, MACMILLAN education, 2017.
15	Reading activity (Pandemics).	T. Grice and J. Greenan, Nursing 2, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.
16	Diabetes and eating disorders (fill-in the blanks and listening activity).	T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Written test and possible oral conversation on the test topics.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

- Fill-in the gaps;

- true/false;

- reading tasks;

- reordering;

- say it in English.

Degree Course in

Nursing and Midwifery Sciences