English Language 1
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: SANTO TOSTOExpected Learning Outcomes
Passing the examination should prove that the students have the language skills to study on courses taught in English and understand and produce biomedical and nursing language. Getting these skills mean that the students have got a complete level A2 of CEFR
Aims:
At the A2 level, students should be able to understand the simle texts on both concrete topics, including technical discussions in their field of specialization.
Course Structure
Required Prerequisites
The students should at least be an independent user of the A 2 in all language abilities:
1) Reception (listening and reading); 2) Interaction (spoken interaction and written interaction); 3) Production (spoken production and written production).
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance to the course
The course will go through 14 hour lessons. Each lesson consists of 3 hours each, except for the last one, which is made up of just two.
The minimum attendance required is 75% of the course as a whole.
Detailed Course Content
The course is designed to refresh students' A 2 level grammar skills and to develop specialized English vocabulary, in order to build a useful foundation for the analysis of texts in the medical-Nursing field.
By the end of the course, students should be able to understand simple English texts and be able to use the language effectively in professional contexts of Nursing. Each lesson will be a kind of mixture between grammar and scientific English for pharmacy.
Contents
Grammar:
1) Present and past.
2) Future tenses
3) Passive voice,
4) Conditionals: zero, first second, third and mixed conditionals.
Nursing
Who is a Nurse;
How to become a Nurse in Italy;
The curriculum: what to study;
Is Nursing difficult?
Career outlook;
Nursing process:
assessing objective and subjective data;
diagnosing; planning; Implementing; evaluating.
Sign and Symptoms and passive voice;
Most common form of medicine;
Blood;
Hygiene for Nurses.
Textbook Information
Any grammar book of A2 level of CEFR.
Or
Grammar reference book : Grammar files Gold, Edward Jordan -Patricia
Identity Upper intermediate A2 O.U.P:
English for Nursing
1) Teacher's notes;
2) “English for the pharmacy students, di Luisa Benigni, società editrice “Esculapio”
3) English for Nursing di Loredana Panchieri
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The course is designed to refresh students' A 2 level grammar skills and to develop specialized English vocabulary, in order to build a useful foundation for the analysis of texts in the medical-Nursing field. By the end of the course, students should be able to understand simple English texts and be able to use the language effectively in professional contexts of Nursing. Each lesson will be a kind of mixture between grammar and scientific English for pharmacy. ContentsGrammatica:1) Present and past. 2) Future tenses3) Passive voice, 4) Conditionals: zero, first second, third and mixed conditionals. Nursing Who is a Nurse;How to become a Nurse in Italy;The curriculum: what to study;Is Nursing difficult?Career outlook;Nursing process:assessing objective and subjective data;diagnosing; planning; Implementing; evaluating.Sign and Symptoms and passive voice;Most common form of medicine;Blood;Hygiene for Nurses. | Grammar reference book : Grammar files Gold, Edward Jordan -PatriciaIdentity Upper intermediate A2 O.U.P:English for Nursing1) Teacher's notes;2) “English for the pharmacy students, di Luisa Benigni, società editrice “Esculapio”3) English for Nursing di Loredana Panchieri |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Tests and assessment
The course is made up of 14-hour lessons as a whole.
The course includes an entry test, and a final written test on both grammar and on topics related to Nursing studies based.
The test consists of five open questions about the language related to the Nursing field, and a few grammar exercises.
In reference to the grammar test the students have to do the following type of exercises: gap fill exercises, transformation sentences, reordering sentences, translation, vocabulary exercises, etc...
Test score: each open question is worth three points, with 1.5 points for grammar and vocabulary correctness, and 1.5 points for the relevance of the answer to the question.
In reference to grammar, 1.5 points are awarded for each correct sentence, and no points for incorrect sentences. The test takes 50 minutes.
The results of the final written test will determine whether students have passed their final examination.
The students who, for any reason, do not attend the language course and the students of the previous courses, will take a written test both on grammar and on topics related to the studies and professions of “ biomedical and nursing language”,
Attendance to the course is COMPULSORY.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Example of the written test for the English for Nursing.
1. What is do you know about blood?
2) What should a nurse do to have a working environment clean and aseptic?
3) What are the common shapes of medications?
4) What is the function of white blood cells?
5) What is the nursing process?
Esempio di test di grammatica
Choose the correct alternative:
Will you say/tell us what is wrong?
What is the journalist saying/ telling?
The have made/done their beds
Are you making /doing a living as a flexibly worker?
Translate the following sentences:
Se fossi una farfalla volerei alto nel cielo.
Magari vincessi la lotteria
Complete the sentences
If I had .......................the lottery, I would .........................a new house.
This person,....................son is an actor, lives in Hollywood.