Foreign Language

Code

11115

Academic unit

NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas

Department

SP

Credits

3

Teacher in charge

Prof. Doutor Pedro Costa

Objectives

To improve students’ communication skills (oral and written) in General English with the aims of prioviding a tool for their immediate and future use both within their academic paths and as future professionals and hence ameliorating the possibility of mobility and employability.

Prerequisites

Students are advised to have an upper intermediate level of English. A placement test will be carried out before the second semester.

Subject matter

Speaking and Listening

•   compare things and make decisions in English.

•   understand English speakers talking on various topics including finance, nostalgia, the paranormal, books and films, crime etc.

•   speculate, in English, about the future.

•   understand and appreciate common English language narrative styles, including folk stories, jokes, songs and soap operas.

•   make a presentation in English.

•   tell jokes and stories and give your opinion in English.

•   make a complaint in English.

•   start conversations and keep them going with "conversational gambits".

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Reading and Writing

• write book reports, reviews and summaries in English

·         read short stories, news articles and reports.

 

 

Grammar and Vocabulary

•   vocabulary of money, photography, anger, animal metaphors, hobbies, colours, food/drink (idiomatic), physical description (connotation), weather, fame, writing/books/authors, crime, poetic effect etc.

•   using adverbs, e.g. Please don't argue so loudly.

•   using the present perfect continuous (and simple), e.g. Bruce has been skydiving for three years.

•   using the third conditional, e.g. If Jesse hadn't played in the sea, the shark wouldn't have attacked him.

•   using the future perfect and continuous, e.g. By this time tomorrow we'll have finished all our exams.

•   saying the something needs doing, or needs to have something done, e.g. His hair needs cutting.

•   the order of adjectives, e.g colour origin material use.

•   simple and continuous narrative forms, e.g. Martha was exhausted because she had been working out.

•   using relative clauses, e.g. The child who was at the party was asleep.

•   using adverbial phrases, e.g. The I've been learning English for ages.

•   revision and building on language points learned in Elementary through Intermediate including: question forms, the past, articles, phrasal verbs, passive voice, direct/indirect speech.

Bibliography

MACCARTHY, Michael, O’DELL, Felicity, SHAW, Ellen, Vocabulary in Use – Upper- intermediate, Cambridge University Press

MURPHY, Raymond, Essential Grammar in Use, Oxford University Press

 

Cambridge International Dictionary of English

 Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs

Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms

Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms,

 Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs,

Cambridge International Dictionary of English

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary

Oxford Advanced Learner’ s Dictionary of Current English,

Oxford Longman Idioms Dictionary

Teaching method

Cooperative work, presentations, hands on methods, debates, grammar and vocabulary exercises, role-plays, interviews and essay writing.

Evaluation method

The dates of the first and second phase exams will be arranged at a later late.

Courses

• Integrated Master Degree in Medicine