Written Academic English (HS)

Andrew Brown, andrew.brown@fhnw.ch

Students can:

• understand complex texts from life-science related fields
• discuss relevant topics fluently and spontaneously
• produce a clear, concise summary of a scientific text
• justify their opinion on ideas presented
• write effective CVs and covering letters for job applications (3 anwenden)

Comprehension and analysis of scientific articles; group discussions & communication activities. Identifying relevant key points in a text as a basis for writing concise, clear elegant summaries. Expressing opinions in correct formal English with supporting evidence. Writing effective and successful job applications – CVs and covering letters Functions

• Describing events, experience, attitudes.
• Expressing opinions, agreement/disagreement.
• Connecting ideas; expressing cause and effect, contrast, sequence etc.

Grammar

• Past simple & continuous
• Past perfect
• Present perfect
• Future (will & going to)
• Future continuous
• Common phrasal verbs
• Formal register including reported speech & passive
• Modals: possibility, deduction, obligation & necessity
• Articles with countable and uncountable nouns
• Inversion
• Determiners (e.g. all the, most, both)
• Adverbial phrases and word order
• Comparative and superlative forms
• Word building

Students must have:

• successfully completed Basic English or
• a Common European Framework B1 qualification < 2 years old or
• achieved at least B1 level in the HLS English placement test.

Students are expected to have a solid knowledge of:

• basic tenses (present/past/perfect/future)
• correct word order in affirmative/negative/interrogative sentences
• the passive
• modals
• adjectives & adverbs
• word transformation (e.g. modify/modifier/modification)

Students are expected to be able to:

• understand the main ideas of a basic scientific article
• discuss concepts fluently and spontaneously
• produce a simple structured text on topics related to their studies
• describe experience and events and give opinions
• understand the main points of a clearly-presented scientific talk

Module Preparation

• Read as wide a range as possible of scientific articles from the main-stream and specialised press.
• Revise English tenses

Course Material

• Lecture materials & homework given out in class and available on Moodle
• Course-relevant job advertisement researched & selected by students
• Additional materials and exercises as necessary

Assessment-Modul in Studienrichtung Pharmatechnologie Studienrichtung Chemie

Lectures, including whole-class and group work & text analysis. Written assignments for homework with peer and lecturer evaluation. 4 evaluated written assignments. Supplementary exercises when required.

according to the module index in the current StuPO

Literaturseminar in Bioanalytik

3 Lektionen / Woche KW 8 bis 22 (14 Wochen im Frühjahr-Semester) 3 Lektionen / Woche KW 38 bis 51 (14 Wochen im Herbst- Semester) 1 x 4 Lektionen / Woche KW 8 bis 18 (10 Wochen im Frühjahr-Semester) 1 x 4 Lektionen / Woche KW 38 bis 47 (10 Wochen im Herbst-Semester) 3 Lektionen / Woche KW 8 bis 22 (14 Wochen im Frühjahr-Semester) 3 Lektionen / Woche KW 38 bis 51 (14 Wochen im Herbst- Semester)