Course information
Final oral presentation exam
•Oral presentation job interview•Find a job ad that you would like to apply for in English (so that you can reuse the language) & in French (the real job you want).•Prepare an 8-minute presentation explaining why you think you are the best person for the job, based on your education, skills and experience. This presentation will be followed by an interview with a jury made up of teachers and students.•You will be evaluated on your ability to effectively communicate your knowledge, skills and experience, how they are relevant to this position and importantly what you are like as a person.
- FDA & EMA
- Drug Pricing
- Help with PRONUNCIATION
- PHASE TRANSITION IN DISEASE: TEXT VS TALK
- Counterfeit drugs
- Three Research Stories
- Drug advertising
- For or Against Direct to Consumer Advertising?
- Healthcare systems
- Getting ready to present
- QUIZLET and other Website for building vocabulary
- Covid-19
- CVs, cover letters & job interviews
- Emailing, meetings & reports
FDA & EMA
1. FDA - Mark Loh
2. FDA - Miyo Saito
3. EMA - From lab to patient: how medicines are approved
4. Keeping medicines safe
Drug Pricing
Extract A File 4.2MB Audio file (MP3)
Class PPT File 129.1KB PDF document
Help with PRONUNCIATION
Use the phonemic chart to practice all the phonemes of English.
Use the phonemic chart to hear the vowel sounds in English. Repeat what you hear.
PHASE TRANSITION IN DISEASE: TEXT VS TALK
Counterfeit drugs
Three Research Stories
Effective oral communication strategies File 15.9MB Powerpoint 2007 presentation
Drug advertising
Class plan
- RC: Do not get sold on drug advertising + Questions
- LC: John Oliver’s show + LC worksheet
- Prescription drug commercials
- each student listens to 5 different ads. 59 videos in total
- Collect info on: drug, company, disease, symptoms, storyline, effectiveness? à why: humour, seriousness, science, story… makes you want to buy it, appeals to certain needs/desires
- In groups, make your own drug ad.
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Homework for 22/11/2021
- Finish your ad and upload to FT
John Oliver's show File 181.8MB Video file (MP4)
For or Against Direct to Consumer Advertising?
Healthcare systems
Getting ready to present
A few videos to look at and documents to give you the vocabulary you need
- Susan McConnell's video
- Signposting language quiz
- BBC Learning English Presentations + Challenge
Watch the video by Sue McConnell and write down the things you DID NOT KNOW about giving an oral presentation.
•STUDENT A = 00:00 – 14:57 (easiest)•STUDENT B = 14:57 – 25:20 (harder)•STUDENT C = 25:20 – end (harderAn example of a very good oral presentation from 2014. The student obtained a grade of 19/20.
Make your own schemes using high quality portable network graphics (PNG)
How to structure an introduction File 16.7KB Word 2007 document
A good introduction File 100.6MB Video file (MOV)
Strategy checklist...
- Prepare a script in an oral style: short sentences, reformulating, repeating, recapping...
- Use signposting expressions. PLAN them!
- Use pseudo questions (WHAT is important IS that...)
- Pay special attention to introductions and conclusions
- Prefocus in your introduction - start with something simple, engaging.
- Pay special attention your transitions - transition into a slide BEFORE you show it.
- Build a rapport with your audience ("most of you know that...")
- Check how to pronounce those scientific / transparent words. Practise, practise practise.
- Rehearse in front of a critical friend, in front of a mirror, record yourself....
- Try shadowing native speakers regularly to improve your prosody.
- Present information on slides bit by bit.
- Don't include too much information on each slide.
- Take special care presenting figures - interact with the slide, tell us what to look at...
- Check your slides carefully for spelling mistakes.
- Check your slides carefully for grammar mistakes. Adjective-noun order is a common problem. For example:
proteins recombinantrecombinant proteins. Another common problem is using an 's' with noun modifiers (gene modifies expression in this example):genes expressiongene expression.
QUIZLET and other Website for building vocabulary
Try to add words and phrases to this list. Make sure you copy and paste a dictionary definition (from Merriam-Webster dictionary, for example) and provide a sentence to give an example: leave a gap ___ instead of the word.
The password you need is
regulatory19
Covid-19
Writing task
The company you work for is interested in getting involved in research and development of treatments for covid. Your line manager has asked you, the company pharmacist and specialist in regulatory affairs, to write a report on potential effective treatments for COVID-19 and also for long covid. In your report give details of these treatments including their mechanism of action, efficacy and stage of progress. For long covid, discuss where the science is at at the moment including potential causes of long covid and possible solutions.Coronavirus Drug and Treatment Tracker - The New York Times File 377.6KB HTML document
CVs, cover letters & job interviews
Emailing, meetings & reports
Authorisation of medicines - EMA
- Centralised authorisation procedure
- Scope of the centralised procedure
- Who makes decisions on patient access to medicines?
- How is the safety of a medicine ensured once on the market?
- National authorisation procedures
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From lab to patient
The journey of a medicine assessed by EMA