ENGLISH LANGUAGE M - Z

Development of the four linguistic skills: listening, speaking, reading comprehension, writing

The student will have to study the different aspects of the language: grammar, phonetic, morphology, syntax, together with the different uses of everyday English and scientific English.

Students will have to be able to speak fluently and correctly both on generic and specific topics. He/she will have to be able to understand and to comment a listening and express his/her own opinion about it.

At the end of the course the student will have to get a B2 level of CEFR.

Lectures

During the course plenty of space will be dedicated to listening and conversation and students will have an active role in order to practise and verify their skills

English grammar, with practice on listening, speaking and writing.

ESP (English for Specific Purposes): follow-up of micro-language and specific terminology in order to develop the linguistic skill required by Biotechnology related studies and professions.

1. Review of tenses: present, past, future. Uses of the infinitive; negative infinitive; verbs followed by infinitive with or without to and verbs followed by –ing;

2. Modal verbs: obligation, deduction, permission

2. Past simple regular and irregular verbs; past continuous;

3. Future tenses: present simple as future, present continuous as future, be going to, will, future continuous, future perfect

4. first, second, third conditionals; mixed conditionals

5. Present perfect + for and since;

6. Passive form; Make, do, get

7. Reported speech: ask, tell, want

Listening on scientific topics

1. Any English pre advanced grammar text will be suitable.

2. English for the Pharmacy student - Luisa Benigni - Ed. Esculapio