Download Medical Polish for Foreign Students

SYLABUS
I. Name of the unit offering the course: Department of Applied Linguistics
II. Head of the Unit:/ Course coordinator dr Janina Wiertlewska
III. 2nd year, number of hours: 80
IV. Form of classes: tutorials
VI. Form of crediting: credit with grade/exam
VII. Number of ECTS points: 3.5
VIII. Aim of the classes:
Preparing students for reading and understanding medical literature in Polish, preparing a student for
using a scientific language
IX. Topics:
‘Health and Safety Training’ during the classes.
30 minutes of each classes are devoted to medical topics such as: human anatomy (parts of the body),
infectious diseases, food poisoning, AIDS, malignants, proteins, atherosclerosis, medicine as science,
smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, stress, obesity, medications).
1-6 .I usually
don’t
do much
7-12. How
about going
to the
cinema?
- expressing time
relations
- expressing abilities
- daily routine
- time of the day,
hours
- names of the days of
the week
- transport services
- forms of the verbs to go, to sleep, to
wash oneself
- motion verbs (to go/to walk;
jechać/jeździć)
- collation of verbs umieć, wiedzieć,
znać
- accusative and ablative after verb to
meet
- ablative of personal pronouns
singular and plural
- ordinal quantifiers 1 - 24
- proposing, accepting - repetition of daily
- genetive singular adjective, noun and
and rejecting a
activities and days of
pronoun expressing direction (to) and
proposal for a meeting the week
in expressing negation
- expressing the hour - names of the types of - accusative after prepositional phrase
relations (at, from,
trains
in questions begining with:”what for?”
until)
- asking for
information (station,
hotel)
- ordering a taxi
- telephone mistake
13-19. We’re - shopping at the
doing
grocery store
shopping
- shopping in clothing
store
- expressing
preferences, negation,
acceptation
- complimenting
20-29 It’s
already
happened
- expressing time
relations (past)
- relating
30-34What
are your
plans?
- expressing time
relations (future)
- expressing wishes
- names of the shops
and service points
- names of the
measures and
amounts
- names of the clothes
and colors
- idioms (czarna owca,
jasne jak słońce, być
zielonym z / ze...,
czerwony jak burak)
- names of the months
in locative
- time adverbials
- plans
- time adverbials etc.
- new year’s
resolutions
- cellphone
35-36 Where - identification of the
are you?
location
- paying somebody’s
attention (in the
question about the
direction)
- expressing believes
- justification
37 I’m going - asking for
on holidays! information
- expressing space
relation (direction)
38. I’m
- question
looking for
- expressing space
a flat
relation (place)
- geopolitical position
of Poland
- names of the
directions of the world
- object names in the
city
- names of the
monuments
- holidays
- train station, airport,
hotel, camping, travel
agency
- furnishing and
equipping a house
- types of the rooms
- renting a flat, a room
(type of, )
39-40
Everything
hurts me!
- names of the
atmospheric effects
and seasons
- names of the body
parts
- names of the
symptoms of the
illness
- giving opinion about
weather, seasons, look
and health
- registration in the
community health
centre
- visit to a doctor
- giving advice
- genetive plural in expressing amount
and form of the genetive after
negative verbs - dative of personal
pronouns (podoba mi się/I like…)
- repetition of accusative (to wear)
- past tense (imperfective aspect) with
time adverbial (How long? How
often?)
- forms of the verbs to go, can, to eat,
ended with –eć in past tense
- present tense (imperfective aspect)
- collation and repetition of the tenses
- locative of the adjectives, nouns and
personal pronouns in prepositional
phrases specifying place and time (in,
on, beside) and the subject of the
conversation
- genitive, accusative, ablative and
locative in the prepositional phrases
(to, at, on, above, in)
- genitive, accusative and locative in
the prepositional phrases (next to, in
opposite of, above, under, in front of,
behind, between, in, on)
- denominator plural masculine nouns
and adjectives
- differences adjective/adverb
- structure boli/bolą mnie
X. Self-study topics:
medical articles from the daily newspapers and magazines as well medical literature.
XI. Booklist:
basic:
- Iwona Lewandowska: Polish doesn’t bite!. Warszawa: Edgard, 2011
- Maria Chłopicka Wielgos, Danuta Pukas Palimąka, Katarzyna Turek Fornelska, Co panu dolega?, Kraków,
Fundacja Wspierania Kultury i Języka: 2015
supplementary:
- chosen articles from daily newspapers and magazines and medical periodicals, according to students’
choice.
XII. Detailed list of required practical skills and confirmation of completing:
Student should be able to understand and communicate with patients. Also, he must be able to use his
writing skills without spelling or grammar mistakes as well as use professional medical literature.