English Language for Pharmacists - GAF222
Title: English Language for Pharmacists
Guaranteed by: Section of Foreign Languages (16-16250)
Faculty: Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/28, C [HS]
summer s.:0/28, C [HS]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (50)
summer:unknown / unknown (50)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Explanation: (F, ZBP, ZBK 1.r. )
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Zuzana Novická
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The aim of the course is to ensure a solid grounding in functional English, aiming to support students’ future endeavors in academic English. The course reviews and extends essential areas of B2/C1 grammar, with a focus on standard forms suitable for formal written English. The course also provides a basic grounding in academic English phrasing, the basics or correct punctuation and the use of English in students’ further studies. The course considers the students’ varied educational backgrounds and attempts to balance out any gaps in essential knowledge.
Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (19.09.2023)
Course completion requirements -

Assessment

 

Assessment takes the form of a written test covering all areas from the course. 

 

Credit requirements

 

Active participation in seminars.

 

A minimum score on the final written test of 65%

 

Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (19.09.2023)
Literature -

Obligatory:

  • May, Peter. Compact first : student's book without answer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 119 s. ISBN 978-1-107-64898-2.

  • May, Peter. Compact first : workbook without answer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 43 s. ISBN 978-1-107-64902-6.

Recommended:

  • De Chazal, Edward Moore, Julie. Oxford EAP advanced/C1. null: null, 2013, 2 s. ISBN 978-0-19-400185-4.

  • Eastwood, John. Oxford practice grammar with answers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 432 s. ISBN 0-19-431369-7.

  • Yule, George. Oxford practice grammar advanced : with answers. Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008, 280 s. ISBN 978-0-19-432754-1.

  • Trask, R. L.. The Penguin guide to punctuation. London: Penguin Books, 1997, 162 s. ISBN 978-0-140-51366-0.

Last update: prepocet_literatura.php (19.09.2024)
Teaching methods -

Seminar

English for Pharmacists in the study programme Pharmacy is held in the first two semesters once a week for 2 lessons i.e. 90 minutes and the complete amount of lessons for this subject is 56 lessons.

Language skills (listening, text comprehension, vocabulary and vocabulary exercises, grammar exercises, spoken and written speech) are practiced in the seminars by available modern methods. Great emphasis is put on students' self-expression.

Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (19.09.2023)
Requirements to the exam -

Assessment

Assessment takes the form of a written test covering all areas from the course. 

Credit requirements

Active participation in seminars.

A minimum score on the final written test of 65%

Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (19.09.2023)
Syllabus -

Syllabus: English for Pharmacists

 

Winter semester

 

  • Course overview and introduction. Preliminary ability assessment.
  • Present simple, Present continuous- rules, usages and practice.
  • Present perfect, Present perfect continuous; for/since, just/already/yet.
  • Present perfect simple and continuous- detailed analysis of common student mistakes and issues and the tenses role in academic English.
  • Past (narrative) tenses – Past simple, Past continuous, Past perfect- looking closely at how past tenses interact with each other to form coherent narratives.
  • Past (narrative) tenses – Used to/Would for past repeat actions or states.  Reviewed in conjunction with previously discussed Past tenses.
  • Introduction to modal verbs -  Initial creation of modal verb reference table covering past/present functions of: Ability, Possibility, Obligation and Prohibition.
  • Modal verbs – continuing creation of modal reference table covering past/present functions of: Deduction, Necessity, Advice and Expectation.
  • Detailed review of modal verbs using newly created reference table and all covered functions to describe complex scenarios across a range of academic and non-academic English.
  • English verb patterns – infinitives, gerunds, bare infinitives in conjunction with both transitive and intransitive verbs in sequence.
  • Future forms – Future simple, Future continuous, Going to, Present tenses for the future, Future perfect simple and continuous.
  • English conditionals Zero, 1st, 2nd and 3rd.  Focus on form and alternative structures.
  • English conditionals review and extension – Mixed conditional patterns and forms.
  • Pre-test revision and checking of areas covered in first semester.

 

Summer semester

  • English relative clauses – basic introduction to standard forms (defining/non-defining).

  • Relative clauses – advanced forms (reduced clauses, inverted forms, omission).

  • Participle clauses -extension beyond reduced relative clauses.

  • Participle clauses and descriptive passives – exploring their role in academic writing.

  • Inversion in cases of negative or restrictive adverbial constructions.

  • Inversion, participle clause and relative clause review.

  • Emphatic forms – clefting and fronting. Comparison of uses in both formal and informal scenarios.

  • Dependent prepositions and phrasal verbs.

  • Common academic collocations and phrasing for written standards.

  • Introduction to punctuation for standard, formal written English.

  • Sentence level punctuation – Simple and Compound sentences.

  • Sentence level punctuation – Complex sentences and conjunctive adverbs.

  • Punctuation extension – Serial commas, semicolons and apostrophes.

  • Pre-test revision and checking of areas covered in second semester.

 

 

 

Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (19.09.2023)
Learning resources -

 

Moodle:

https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3163 

 

Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (19.09.2023)