Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Health Sciences |
Mestrado Universitario en Xerontoloxía (Plan 2011) |
Subjects |
Inglés II |
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Identifying Data | 2015/16 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Inglés II | Code | 653491020 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optativa | 3 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
Introduction. English in Geriatrics and Gerontology. | Lexical and syntactic features (intermediate). Verb tenses and forms. "An Old Person I help to treat": essay practice. Analysis and correction of mistakes. |
Exercise and Old Age. Comprensión aural de textos audiovisuales con el tema del ejercicio. Práctica en presentaciones y composiciones. Estrategias en la realización de presentaciones. |
Listening Comprehension: audiovisual texts on the theme of exercise and old age. Presentation and essay practice. Presentation strategies. |
Secrets of a long life. | Genetics, lifestyle and environmental factors. Teamwork with specialists in other areas. Reading comprehension: "Geriatric Interdisciplinary teams". |
A Question of Age | Professional and Family Care. Old People's Homes and / or home care. Group discussion: "A Question of Age"Placing and timing in the lives of the elderly. |
The treatment of the elderly: medication. | Tasks, medication and over-medication. Lexical and syntactic features (intermediate). Part II. |
Old age and the brain. Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease | Practical situations and problems. (part II) |
When to call it a day: rethinking the end of life. | Death and the end of life; Euthanasia and other everyday ethical and practical issues. Necessary changes in our way of thinking about the end of life; palliative care. Grammar: ways of expressing the future. |
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