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Communication Skills in English

Communication Skills in English. Biomedical Informatics Birgit Pitscheider. You and English Language input.  Activity on "you and English": After drinking too much booze you probably have a hang-over  Here's an article about English middle-class, middle-aged people's drinking habits :

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Communication Skills in English

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  1. Communication Skills in English Biomedical Informatics Birgit Pitscheider

  2. You and EnglishLanguage input Activity on "you and English": After drinking too much booze you probably have a hang-over  Here's an article about English middle-class, middle-aged people's drinking habits : http://www.news-medical.net/?id=31229 to do an internship / to be an intern (or as the Americans say "a slave") to give a presentation to run smoothly / to be bumpy. We had a smooth / bumpy start. All works well except for some hick-ups. I want to refresh / brush up my English to strengthen my English skills What’s your opinion on / about this subject ?  Based on what you've just told each other, what does this tell you / us about how you learn best? Talking, communicative activities, friendly atmosphere, subjects / topics you’re interested in, we all stick to English

  3. SocializingLanguage input Sentence starters for socializing:

  4. You as a group

  5. For next time I collect current, interesting and brief articles and we do an interactive news activity on articles such as the ones below (taken from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Did you know that BBC and CNN have health, technology and science news every day? Check out. Drug may reverse MS brain damage Broadband users reach their limit Hi-tech brings families together Keyboard sniffers to steal data

  6. Interesting websites Dictionaries http://dict.leo.org/ http://www.dict.cc/ Monolingual http://www.merriam-webster.com/ Websites to learn English http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ with videos, podcasts, etc Podcasts http://www.businessenglishpod.com/ one of the best podcasts on business English More of that next time!

  7. Thank you for having been there Please remember to tell other students about this course. They can join any time. It would be great if they could let me know @ birgit.pitscheider@uibk.ac.at or if they register with Ms Bortolotti. PS: We definitely make an excursion to the Irish pub 

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