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.
