Content
- Lectures: 15 hours
- Exercises 15 hours
- Independent work: 60 hours
Subject carrier
Description
1. Skills
a. Oral expression and communication
– basic conversational strategies (language of tact and diplomacy);
– discussions and debates on topics from dietetics;
– successful public speaking: efficient presentations at international professional and scientific symposiums;
– interpretation of graphs and tables;
b. Reading comprehension
– discussion of advanced authentic texts from the field of dietetics with reading comprehension strategies and exercises;
– acquisition and expansion of terminology from the field of dietetics; collocations, translation;
c. Listening comprehension
– development of listening comprehension skills by listening to authentic recordings, taking notes, summarizing;
d. Written expression
– writing technical and scientific texts (essay, report, abstract), citing sources, summarizing, paraphrasing;
– writing official texts: cover letter, CV;
2. Grammar structures
– the English tense system, active and passive voice
– conditional sentences
– reported speech
– articles
– gerund and infinitive
– modal verbs
3. Vocabulary
– dietetics terminology (collocations, derivation)
– hedging, linking, discourse markers,
– raising awareness of the differences between general English and English for Specific Purposes.
