Programma
- Unit 1 — Grammar: Costruzione della frase, Personal Pronouns, Verb to be, Question Words; Glossary: Parts of the Body; Phonetic activities: Pronounce it right; Comprehension Activity: Introducing oneself (reading, listening)
- Unit 2 — Grammar: Preposition, articles, demonstrative pronouns, plurals; Comprehension Activity: Describing a simple case of medical life: admitting a patient to hospital (reading, listening); Glossary: Hospital equipment
- Unit 3 — Grammar: Possessive adjectives/Simple present tense, Genitivo Sassone, Comparativi e superlativi; Comprehension Activity: Health and Illness (reading, listening); Glossary: Injuries and illness
- Unit 4 — Grammar: Verb To Have/Has Got; Comprehension Activity: Digestive System (reading, listening); Comprehension Activity: Giving instructions to new colleague (reading, listening); Glossary: How to ask the way
- Unit 5 — Grammar: Modals; Comprehension Activity: Scientific Text (reading, listening); Comprehension Activity: Describing Symptoms (reading, listening)
- Unit 6 — Grammar: Gerundive, Imperative, Present continuous; Communication Skills Activity: Enquiring about a problem; Communication Skills Activity: Recommending medication; Communication Skills Activity: Reassurance and cautionary advice
- Unit 7 — Grammar: Adverbs of frequency, going to, will; Comprehension Activities: The heart and circulation (reading, listening); Glossary: cvs
- Unit 8 — Grammar: Simple past: to be, to have; Communication Skills Activity: Emergency situation. Enquiring about a problem; Communication Skills Activity: Emergency situation. Receiving Indirect information; Communication Skills Activity: Emergency situation. Giving instructions to a colleague; Communication Skills Activity: Emergency situation. Dealing with helpers
- Unit 9 — Grammar: Past simple of regular and irregular verbs; Grammar Revision; Scientific Vocabulary: Consolidation Exercise
- Unit 10 — Grammar: Past Continuous Tense; Communication skills activities: Taking a history, Talking about symptoms; Comprehension Activities: Examining a patient (reading, listening); Case History: Dr Dawson (Personal Details) (reading, listening, writing)
- Unit 11 — Grammar: Present Perfect; Communication skills activities: Examining a patient, Taking a history, Talking about symptoms; Comprehension Activities: Examining a patient (reading, listening); Reading skills: Using a pharmacological reference; Scientific Vocabulary: Medical abbreviations
- Unit 12 — Grammar: Past Perfect Tense; Comprehension Activities: Physical Investigation (reading, listening); Glossary: Verbs used in instructions
- Unit 13 — Grammar: Passive; Glossary: Lab-terms, lab tests; Communication skills: Investigations; Reading and Writing Skills: Reading Scientific Articles; Reading Skills: Scientific Articles
- Unit 14 — Grammar: Conditionals; Communication skills: Special Investigations (ECG, Barium Meal, Crosby Capsule, Ultrasound scan, Myelogram); Reading skills: Case study Mr Hudson
- Unit 15 — Grammar: Phrasal Verbs, Prepositions in relative clauses; Case History: 42-year-old female (reading, listening); Comprehension Activity: Explaining Diagnosis and Management (listening, reading)
- Unit 16 — Grammar: Prepositions in relative clauses; Reading Skills: Scientific Articles; Final examinations