Learning Outcomes of the Intensive Course in English 

At the completion of this course, the students should be able to: 

1. construct English sentences with the following tenses: simple present, present continuous, simple past, past continuous, present perfect, simple future; 
2. use simple and compound prepositions;  
3. skim and scan a simple text to find specific information; 
4. summarize by filtering out unnecessary details and getting to the core of a text;  
5. use active and passive voices, modals, comparative and superlative forms, and conditionals;  
6. describe a process using sequence markers and active or passive voice; 
7. develop skills and strategies for effective listening and taking notes during lectures; 
8. build vocabulary for medical purposes and use certain concepts on how vocabulary is formed/used in English (prefix, suffix etc.); 
9. introduce himself or herself and others, talk about day-to-day activities and describe things and situations; 
10. express personal opinion by looking at a situation with a balanced point of view; 
11. give instructions, face an interview, ask for and provide information and carry on a dialogue by turn taking; 
12. lead and facilitate a discussion, give opinions, agree or disagree with an opponent, and discuss and express group opinions; 
13. practice using the English language through informal learning activities, i.e., variety entertainments, debates and movie screening; 
14. convert data given in a non-linguistic form to a linguistic form (i.e. from a graph or table to a descriptive paragraph); 
15. understand the essay format, write a coherent paragraph and then a unified coherent essay;  
16. write a letter; 
17. make a short speech or presentation on a given topic.