Anna Barnau / Božena Džuganová English for Health Care Professionals

About this book

The book English for Health Care Professionals is intended primarily for students of Biology and Medicine, teachers of English for Specific Purposes, and health care professionals. Suggestions of exercises and tasks to improve listening as well as reading comprehension are given for classes, small groups and self-studying individuals. The volume combines theoretical approaches and didactic-methodologically based exercises and tasks developed by the authors. English for Health Care Professionals draws on the authors’ own linguistic research and teaching experience, but contains a full range of modern scientific views on theory and practice.

In the practical part, each section contains a compendious dictionary with information given in the entries and arranged in the alphabetical order. The dictionary section is subdivided into three parts: medical terms, general vocabulary and linguistic phrases. Each word and linguistic phrase contain the pronunciation transcription according to the British English Received Pronunciation Standard, then American English variant spelling if present, and finally, short and precise meaning of the headword. At the end of the book, there is an English – German Dictionary, and a Key with solutions to individual exercises.