Learning Goals

The objective of the course is to acquire the basic grammar, to deepen and consolidate the basic language skills, to achieve an acceptable level of lexicon and reading for the acquisition of oral and written communication elementary abilities, for the deepening of medical-scientific english and an acceptably mastery of pronunciation, reading and translation.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, classroom trainings.

Prerequisites

To know the basic grammar rules of the English language and the basic notions of human anatomy and physiology.

Assessment

Ongoing evaluations, English exam.

Course Syllabus

English grammar: Alphabet - Pronunciation of vowels and consonants - Phonetics definite and indefinite article - Personal pronouns- Plural of nouns , regular and irregular - Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns -Possessive adjectives and pronouns - Distributive adjectives and pronouns - Relative pronouns – Interrogative pronouns - Quantifiers Adjectives - Adverbs - Prepositions Comparative and Superlative of majority, minority and equality of adjectives and adverbs- Possessive case - Saxon genitive – Numbers, cardinal and ordinal – Verbs: Paradigm, regular and irregular - Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative and of tenses - Simple present - Present continuous - Present perfect - Simple past - Past continuous - Past perfect - Simple future – Future continuous - Future perfect – Imperative - Conditional , 1st, 2nd and 3rd type - Modal verbs -Phrasal verbs - Passive voice - Idiomatic expressions. Medical English: General body systems - Medical history taking - Hospital departments and standard medical procedures - Health care - Common medical abbreviations and acronyms – Glossary - Scientific article.