Hello, and welcome to your English course.

Perhaps your English is already good, in which case you will simply need to learn the vocabulary for medicine.

Perhaps your level is not very high, in which case you will need to work consistently to improve your reading skills and to enlarge your general vocabulary, as well as learning medical vocabulary.

In both cases the solution is to read, read, read!

I have uploaded the information about the course, so you can see what you need to do.

All students without certification (Big Bang alone is not enough) need to come to the next lesson. I need to speak to you, if you think your Englsih is good enough not to need to do the course.

Those students who already know they need to do a course, please get the book

Oxford English for Careers

            MEDICINE

            Sam Carter

            Oxford University Press

Every lesson I will upload two articles which you must also read before class. This will give some speaking practice at the beginning of the lesson. The students who are not doing the course must choose different articles.

It is useful to look at the abstracts on which the articles are based, to see the differences in the academic English of the abstract compared with the more neutral English of the articles (see presentation)

Please look at the slide which gives resources for how to improve your English, regardless of level. If you start to work on your English now, and are consistent, I guarantee that your English will be good by the time you leave university.

Best wishes,

Christine Tracey