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Teaching GuideTerm University College of Physiotherapy |
| Grao en Fisioterapia |
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| ENGLISH |
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| Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | ENGLISH | Code | 651G01027 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Optativa | 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 the language of numbers and letters. "My speciality" (written work, correction of mistakes) Reading and speaking: "Taking risks". |
| Hospitals | 1. The hospital team. 2. In and around the hospital (Grice ch 1). (Directions) 3. Listening: "A Job Interview". 4. Listening and speaking: "Profile of a student nurse". |
| Looking after yourself | 1. Physical fitness (Leo Jones ch8, including modal verbs) 2. What to do about flu. 3. How to stay healthy (letter of advice to a friend) 4. YouTube video listening comprehension: "What exercises can I do for arthritis in my knees?" |
| Semi-scientific language | English and Spanish technical lexis compared: false friends. Semi-scientific newspaper and magazine articles: "The Ankle" and "Ankle Sprains". Listening: "Using your Brain". |
| Pain and illnesses | 1. Accidents and emergencies (First Aid; reading comprehension texts and videos for listening) 2. Pain (Grice ch 5: Reading, listening and writing) 3. Symptoms and rememdies (Grice ch 5) |
| 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. Death and dying 3. Reading Comprehension: "Working with Children" "The Hope Children's Hospice" |
| Treatments | 1. Medication: Should physiotherapists be able to make out prescriptions? (Article: "Physiotherapists may get medicine prescribing rights") 2. Alternative treatments (Grice ch 15: Alternative treatments) 3. Surgery or exercise?: Articles for reading comprehension on The Knee, and "Total knee replacement" |
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