Selected Topics of Professional English

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Stanislava Pattonová (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Biomedical Technology

Synopsis:

This course is for students with sufficient knowledge of English in the extent of secondary school curriculum. It focuses on scientific and technical language, its characteristics and practice of relevant grammar.

Requirements:

credit - 80% attendance

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Topical article from magazine New Scientist. Making your presentation.

2. Brain on a Chip Could be Hit to Mind Drugs. Scientific writing.

3. Embryonic Hope. At a conference.

4. Roman Nose Sniffs out People with Lung Cancer.

5. Needle Free „Biopsy“ Pins Down Tumours. Application forms.

6. Reading and Discussion - working in groups.

7. Sperm Magnet to Help Infertile Man. Interviews.

8. Pictures That Hide Your True Identity. Word Formations-Prefixes.

9. Driven to. Word formation-Suffixes.

10. In Search for Scientific Truth. Abbreviations.

11. A moral Dilemma. Meanings of some words.

12. I, Computer. Presentations.

13. Topical article from magazine New Scientist.

14. Presentations.

Study Objective:

This course is aimed at scientific language, its lexical and syntactical specifications and expanding and activating vocabulary. Emphasis is put on developing scientific language and ability to work with scientific texts. Authentic scientific materials are used in classes.

Study materials:

[1] Gustavii B.: How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.

[2] Jordan R. R.: Academic Writing Course - New Edition. Nelson, Walton-on-Thames, 2002.

[3] Campbell E.: ESL Resource Book for Engineers and Scientists. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995.

[4] Roubík K., Motyčková E., Denney P., Poncová E.: English for Biomedical and Electrical Engineering Scientists. CVUT, Praha 2009.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	roomKL:C-2 Pattonová S. 10:00–11:50 (parallel nr.1) Kladno FBMI salonek
Fri
Thu
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: