Teaching GuideTerm University College of Physiotherapy |
Grao en Fisioterapia |
Subjects |
ENGLISH |
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Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
Subject | ENGLISH | Code | 651G01027 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Optional | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
Introduction to the language of the Health Sciences and Physiotherapy. | Everyday language for the health professional. Introduction to numbers and letters. Wriing: "My speciality". |
Hospitals | 1. The members of the hospital team. 2. In and around the hospital. 2. Asking and giving directions 3. A Job Interview 4. Profile of a health science professional. |
Looking after yourself | 1. Physical fitness 2. What to do about common illnesses. 3. How to stay healthy (letter of advice to a friend) 4. Listening comprehension: "What exercises can I do?" |
Semi-scientific language | English and Spanish technical words compared. Texts for Reading comprehension: "The Ankle" and "Ankle Sprains". Listening comprehension "Using your Brain". |
Pain and illnesses | 1. Accidents and emergencies (First Aid) 2. Pain (reading, listening and writing) 3. Symptoms and remedies |
Physical therapy | 1. Exercising (Protect your back, DVD for listening comprehension, reading comprehension on "Movement, Posture and Lifting"; Video on "Australian LBP exercises) 2. Other physiotherapy treatments (long noun and adjective groups) |
Youth and Old age | 1. Caring for the elderly. 2. "Working with Children" (Reading Comprehension; "The Hope Children's Hospice" (Reading Comprehension) |
Treatments | 1. Medication. Reading comprehension: "Physiotherapists may get medicine prescribing rights" |
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