Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

Better knowledge of the English Language.
Improvement of oral and written communication skillsof the students, related to the professional needs of a Health Visitor.

GRAMMAR

- "to be" - simple present
Affirmative, negative and interrogative form
- Possessive and demonstrative adjectives
- Ordinal and cardinal numbers
- The plural - regular and irregular nouns
- "To have" and "to have got" - simple present
Affirmative, negative and interrogative form
- The possessive case
- Simple present
Affirmative, negative and interrogative form
- Adverbs of frequency (always-never-often-usually-sometimes...)
-Talking about time, date, mounths, days of the week, seasons..
- The imperative - "let's.." and negative form
- Present continuous
Affirmative, negative and interrogative form
- Simple past - regular and irregular verbs
- Past continuous
Affirmative, negative and interrogative form
- Indefinite adjectives and pronouns: some - any - no - none
- Should - Shouldn't
- Prepositions of place (at-in-among-between-on-under-in front of...)
- Countable and uncountable nouns

In order to understand the meaning of a scientific text, and to achieve the knowledge of the specific professional microlanguage, the following texts will be red in classroom and conversations will be held about them:

- Nurses and patients
- The importance of a smile
- The General Practitioner
- The speech therapy
- The hospital
- Understanding the daily ward routine
- The healthy diet pyramid
- Obesity
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Basic nutrients
- The patient assessment
- Basi Vocabulary: diseases and symptoms
- Basic Vocabulary: drugs