MEDICAL POLISH FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS
The aim of the Polish course is to prepare foreign students to communicate in Polish-speaking
environment. The classes cover the material which helps to develop basic communication skills
needed in everyday situation.
The course is also designed to provide students with basic vocabulary required to conduct medical
examination, have patients interviews, gather medical data etc.
TEACHERS:

mgr Elżbieta Buttler
CONTACT: mgr Elżbieta Buttler
SYLABUS
I. Name of the unit offering the course: Department of Applied Linguistics
II. Head of the Unit/ Course coordinator: dr hab. Sylwia Firyn
III. 1st year, number of hours: 40
IV. Form of classes: tutorials: 40
V. Form of crediting: credit with grade
VII. Number of hours: tutorials 40h
VIII. Topics of tutorials:
0. Repeat,
please!
- entering into
communication
- welcome and farewell
formula
- welcome and farewell
formula
- important expressions
1. What’s
- entering into
your name? communication
- introducing yourself
- asking about wellbeing
- answering about
wellbeing
- asking for information (Where is
he from?)
- asking for ruling (paticle “czy”)
- verbs to be, to have, to live
- adverbs, personal pronouns
2. I have a
question.
What is
this?
- asking for information (Who is
he/she? What is this?)
- denominator noun, adjective
singular in a function of object
- conjugation –m, -sz
- structure to speak Polish in
opposition to to know Polish
3. Who are
you?
- quantifiers 1 – 10
- entering into
communication
- name and surname,
address
- asking and answering
about wellbeing (How
are you?)
- asking questions
- quantifiers 11 - 23
- defining characteristic - internationalisms
of a person
(adjectives)
- description of the
appearance and
character
- grammatical terminology in
Polish
- asking questions
- introducing yourself
etc.
- nationalities
- professions and
occupations
- adjectives defining the
- conjugation -ę, -isz
4. Do you
have a
brother?
- asking about age
- asking for e-mail
address
- information about a
family
origin
- quantifiers 20 - 100
- age
- family and personal
relations
- website address
- accusative singular adjective,
noun of pronouns in a function of
- possessive pronouns in
denominator
- rules of speaking about the age:
lat, lata
5. What do
- verbs describing hobby - structures: being interested in +
you
- justification
- adverbs describing
ablative; to like + accusative; to
like to do? - expressing time
frequency
like + infinitive
relations
- verbs ended in -ować
- asking for information
- modal verbs
- collation of conjugations
6. Can I
- asking for and giving a - quantifiers 100 - 1000 - prices (złote – złotych, grosze –
have
phone number
- names of the food and groszy)
a bill please - expressing a culinary
dishes
- repetition of the forms of the
taste (I like...)
- names of drinks
verbs to eat, to drink and
- situations in cafes and
accusative
restaurants
- asking for information
and permition (Where
is…?, Can I…?, Is it
allowed to… here…?)
7. Usually I - expressing time
- daily routine
- forms of the verbs to go, to
don’t
relations
- time of the day, hours sleep, to wash oneself
do much
- expressing abilities
- names of the days of
- motion verbs (to go/to walk;
the week
jechać/jeździć)
- transport services
- collation of verbs umieć,
wiedzieć, znać
- accusative and ablative after
verb to meet
- ablative of personal pronouns
singular and plural
- ordinal quantifiers 1 - 24
8. How
- proposing, accepting
- repetition of daily
- genetive singular adjective, noun
about going and rejecting a proposal activities and days of the and pronoun expressing direction
to the
for a meeting
week
(to) and in expressing negation
cinema?
- expressing the hour
- names of the types of
- accusative after prepositional
relations (at, from,
trains
phrase in questions begining
until)
with:”what for?”
- asking for information
(station, hotel)
- ordering a taxi
- telephone mistake
9. We’re
- shopping at the
- names of the shops and - genetive plural in expressing
doing
grocery store
service points
amount and form of the genetive
shopping
- shopping in clothing
- names of the measures after negative verbs - dative of
store
and amounts
personal pronouns (podoba mi
- expressing
- names of the clothes
się/I like…)
preferences, negation, and colors
- repetition of accusative (to
acceptation
- idioms (czarna owca,
wear)
- complimenting
10. It’s
already
happened
- expressing time
relations (past)
- relating
11. What
are your
plans?
- expressing time
relations (future)
- expressing wishes
12. Where
are you?
- identification of the
location
- paying somebody’s
attention (in the
question about the
direction)
- expressing believes
- justification
- asking for information
- expressing space
relation (direction)
13. I’m
going
on
holidays!
14. I’m
looking for
a flat
15.
Everything
hurts me!
- question
- expressing space
relation (place)
- giving opinion about
weather, seasons, look
and health
- registration in the
community health
centre
- visit to a doctor
- giving advice
jasne jak słońce, być
zielonym z / ze...,
czerwony jak burak)
- names of the months in - past tense (imperfective aspect)
locative
with time adverbial (How long?
- time adverbials
How often?)
- forms of the verbs to go, can, to
eat, ended with –eć in past tense
- plans
- present tense (imperfective
- time adverbials etc.
aspect)
- new year’s resolutions - collation and repetition of the
- cellphone
tenses
- geopolitical position of
Poland
- names of the directions
of the world
- object names in the city
- names of the
monuments
- locative of the adjectives, nouns
and personal pronouns in
prepositional phrases specifying
place and time (in, on, beside) and
the subject of the conversation
- holidays
- train station, airport,
hotel, camping, travel
agency
- furnishing and
equipping a house
- types of the rooms
- renting a flat, a room
(type of, )
- genitive, accusative, ablative and
locative in the prepositional
phrases (to, at, on, above, in)
- names of the
atmospheric effects and
seasons
- names of the body
parts
- names of the
symptoms of the illness
- genitive, accusative and locative
in the prepositional phrases (next
to, in opposite of, above, under, in
front of, behind, between, in, on)
- denominator plural masculine
nouns and adjectives
- differences adjective/adverb
- structure boli/bolą mnie
X. Self-study topics XI. Booklist (basic/additional)
1 Małgorzata Małolepsza, Aneta Szymkiewicz: Hurra!!! Po polsku 1. Kraków: PROLOG Szkoła Języków
Obcych, 2010.
2 Barbara Bartnicka, Halina Satkiewicz: Gramatyka języka polskiego. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna,
2010.
3 Marta Mijakowska-Johnson: Polish for Foreigners. Warszawa: Edgard, 2010
4 Karolina Sołtowska, Tadeusz Jurek, Katarzyna Labuda-Di Marino, Barbara Tuczyńska-Nowak: Język
polski w pigułce. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Medycznego, 2010
5 Liliana Madelska: Discovering Polish. Kraków: PROLOG Szkoła Języków Obcych, 2010.
6 Joanna Lachowicz, Joanna Podsiadły: Chcę studiować medycynę. Łódź: Wydawnictwo WING, 1998
7 Iwona Lewandowska: Polish doesn’t bite!. Warszawa: Edgard, 2011
8 Chosen articles from daily newspapers and magazines and medical peridicals, according to
student’s choice.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
I. Conditions for completing the course:
1. Students obtain credits on the basis of their attendance. During the semester they can have two
unexcused absences.
2. Students obtain credits on the basis of grades gained in the tests, homework and their activity
during the classes. All tests are preceded by revision of the previously introduced material.
3. Students are obliged to buy a textbook chosen by the teacher and a dictionary chosen by a
student. The teacher provides students with extra materials which are helpful in the process of
acquiring the language.
4. By the end of Polish course students are supposed to take a written exam which consists of
grammar and lexical part. The exam lasts 90 minutes. Students can use a dictionary during the exam.
5. In order to pass the exam students have to collect 55 % of points.