FURTHER LANGUAGES - English language
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: ELIANA GUGLIELMINOExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims at improving the receptive-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 with enphasis on listening, 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, roleplays.
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. N, Vince, New Get Inside Language, A1-B2+ levels, MACMILLAN education, 2017
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hospital vocabulary (jobs, verbs, departments | T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 N.Vince |
| 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 N.Vince |
| 3 | Reading activity (the nursing profession) | T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 N.Vince |
| 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 N.Vince |
| 5 | Reading activity (Pain) | T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 N.Vince |
| 6 | Signs and symptoms of a shock | T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 N.Vince |
| 7 | Writing activity (writing a pain report) | T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 N.Vince |
| 8 | The passive form | N, 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 N.Vince |
| 10 | Listening and speaking activity ( a scan, reporting the patient's progress) | T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 N.Vince |
| 11 | Signs and symptoms of hypothermia | T. Grice, Nursing 1, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 N.Vince |
| 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 | N, 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 (fill-in the blanks and listening activity) | N, Vince, New Get Inside Language, A1-B2+ levels, MACMILLAN education, 2017 |
| 17 | An eating disorder ( listening activity) | T. Grice and J. Greenan, Nursing 2, Oxford English for Careers, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 |