Better knowledge of the English Language
Improvement of oral and written communication skills of the students, related to the professional needs of a Health Visitor.
GRAMMAR:
- Comparisons of minority, equality and majority
- Relative superlatives of minority and majority
- Present perfect
- Presentperfect continuous
- Future continuous
- Future perfect
- Future in time clauses
- Present conditional
- Perfect conditional
- Conditional sentences (if-clause/main clause) type 0, 1, 2 and 3
- Verbs followed by -ing form or to-infinitive or both of them
- The passive form: outlines.
In order to understand the meaning of a scientific text , and to achieve the knowledge of the specific professional microlanguage, the following texts, from the recommanded bibliography, will be red in classroom and conversations will be held about them:
- "The health visitor"
- "Normal Infant Feeding"
- "Breast feeding"
- "Postpartum depression"
- "Declaration of informed consent"
-"Alcoholism and substance abuse"
-"Techniques for making a physical exmination of the patient"
- "Child development and developmental disorders"
- "Autism"
- "Patient assessment"
The professor will also distribute the following brochures to the students:
- "Vaccinations protect your children from infectious diseases"
- "Post vaccinations advice"