SYLABUS
I. Name of the unit offering the course: Department of Applied Linguistics
II. Head of the Unit:/ Course coordinator drJanina Wiertlewska
III. 2nd year, number of hours: 80
IV. Form of classes: tutorials
VI. Form of crediting: credit with grade/exam
VII. Number of ECTS points: 3.5
VIII. Aim of the classes:
Preparing students for reading and understanding medical literature in Polish, preparing a student for using a scientific language
IX. Topics:
‘Health and Safety Training’ during the classes.
30 minutes of each classes are devoted to medical topics such as: human anatomy (parts of the body), infectious diseases, food poisoning, AIDS, malignants, proteins, atherosclerosis, medicine as science, smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, stress, obesity, medications).
1-6 .I usually don’tdo much / - expressing time relations
- expressing abilities / - daily routine
- time of the day, hours
- names of the days of the week
- transport services / - forms of the verbs to go, to sleep, to wash oneself
- motionverbs (to go/to walk; jechać/jeździć)
- collation of verbsumieć, wiedzieć, znać
- accusative and ablative after verb to meet
- ablative of personal pronouns singular and plural
- ordinal quantifiers 1 - 24
7-12. How about going
to the cinema? / - proposing, accepting and rejecting a proposal for a meeting
- expressing the hour relations (at, from, until)
- asking for information (station, hotel)
- ordering a taxi
- telephone mistake / - repetition of daily activities and days of the week
- names of the types of trains / - genetive singular adjective, noun and pronoun expressing direction (to) and in expressing negation
- accusative after prepositional phrase in questions beginingwith:”what for?”
13-19. We’re doing shopping / - shopping at the grocery store
- shopping in clothing store
- expressing preferences, negation, acceptation
- complimenting / - names of the shops and service points
- names of the measures and amounts
- names of the clothes and colors
- idioms (czarna owca, jasne jak słońce, być zielonym z / ze..., czerwony jak burak) / - genetive plural in expressing amount and form of the genetive after negative verbs - dative of personal pronouns (podoba mi się/I like…)
- repetition of accusative (to wear)
20-29 It’s already happened / - expressing time relations (past)
- relating / - names of the months in locative
- time adverbials / - past tense (imperfective aspect) with time adverbial (How long? How often?)
- forms of the verbs to go, can, to eat, ended with –ećin past tense
30-34What are your plans? / - expressing time relations (future)
- expressing wishes / - plans
- time adverbials etc.
- new year’s resolutions
- cellphone / - present tense (imperfective aspect)
- collation and repetition of the tenses
35-36 Where are you? / - identification of the location
- paying somebody’s attention (in the question about the direction)
- expressing believes
- justification / - geopolitical position of Poland
- names of the directions of the world
- object names in the city
- names of the monuments / - locative of the adjectives, nouns and personal pronouns in prepositional phrases specifying place and time (in, on, beside) and the subject of the conversation
37 I’m going
on holidays! / - asking for information
- expressing space relation (direction) / - holidays
- train station, airport, hotel, camping, travel agency / - genitive, accusative, ablative and locative in the prepositional phrases (to, at, on, above, in)
38. I’m looking for
a flat / - question
- expressing space relation (place) / - furnishing and equipping a house
- types of the rooms
- renting a flat, a room (type of, ) / - genitive, accusative and locative in the prepositional phrases (next to, in opposite of, above, under, in front of, behind, between, in, on)
- denominator plural masculine nouns and adjectives
39-40 Everything hurts me! / - giving opinion about weather, seasons, look and health
- registration in the community health centre
- visit to a doctor
- giving advice / - names of the atmospheric effects and seasons
- names of the body parts
- names of the symptoms of the illness / - differences adjective/adverb
- structure boli/boląmnie
X. Self-study topics:
medical articles from the daily newspapers and magazines as well medical literature.
XI. Booklist:
basic:
- Iwona Lewandowska: Polishdoesn’t bite!. Warszawa: Edgard, 2011
- Maria Chłopicka Wielgos, Danuta PukasPalimąka, Katarzyna Turek Fornelska, Co panu dolega?, Kraków, Fundacja Wspierania Kultury i Języka: 2015
supplementary:
- chosen articles from daily newspapers and magazines and medical periodicals, according to students’ choice.
XII. Detailed list of required practical skills and confirmation of completing:
Student should be able to understand and communicate with patients. Also, he must be able to use his writing skills without spelling or grammar mistakes as well as use professional medical literature.