English Language III.

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Eva Motyčková (gar.), Stanislava Pattonová

Supervisor:

Department of Biomedical Technology

Synopsis:

English for Biomedical Professionals. Vocabulary and

communication about Medicine, Medical eEquipment, Health Care System, Biological

Signals, Medical Imaging Systems, Giving Presentations, Economy in Health Care,

Management in Medicine and Medical institutions, life functions, etc.

Requirements:

Credits will be given for attendance - 3 sick leaves, final written test (at least 60% to pass), oral examination a presentation on biomedical topic.The written test is based on the textbook of Roubík K.: English for Biomedical professionals. It is necessary to focus on biomedical vocabulary, content of the articles, graph description and formal letter writing. In the oral part the student gets and article from the New Scientist which he reads and talks about with the teacher. Presentation should be on biomedical topic, please use unit 5 of the above mentioned textbook and the manual - How to make your presentation - while preparing it. The manual is on the web page of the subject. Also, the student who is giving the presentation prepares for his classmates a hand-out which they fill in during the presentation. Its correctness is checked at the end of the presentation.

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Introduction.Revision and communication.

2.Medicine and Medical Equipment.Definitions.

3.Health Care Systém.Abbreviations, English articles.

4.Electric Biosignals.Independant and dependant clauses.

5.Medical Imaging Systems.Passive voice.

6. Presentations.Reported speech.

7.Health Care Economics.Infinitives.

8.Revision and Presentations.

9.Health Care and Hospital Management. Gerunds.

10.Life Processes and Life Functions.Participles.

11.Organ Systems.Conditionals.

12.Drug Discovery.Subject and verb agreement.

13.Revision. Presentations.

14.Final test and presentations.

Study Objective:

To learn vocabulary and communication skills in in English specialised on biomedical engineering. To learn basic grammar used in general writing.

Study materials:

[1] Murphy R.: English Grammar in Use. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.

[2] Pohl A.: Professional English Medical,Penguin ,2003

[3] Roubík K., O'Neill C., Smith S.: English for Biomedical Professionals. ČVUT, Praha, 2005.

Note:

Time-table for winter 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
Fri
Thu
Fri	roomKL:B-616 Motyčková E. 08:00–19:50 (parallel nr.101) Kladno FBMI Učebna

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Bakalářský studijní obor Biomedicínský technik - kombinované (compulsory course)