DEVELOPING ENGLISH LEXICAL COMPETENCE IN PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT: DETAILED LESSON PLAN ON THE TOPIC «IMMUNITY» FOR SECOND-YEAR MAJORS IN BIOLOGY

Abstract

This publication is a detailed lesson plan on the topic «Immunity» designed for the second-year students majoring in Biology. The lesson is aimed at lexical elements acquisition alongside with lexical skills development in job-related areas. The material presented satisfies the requirements of the National ESP Curriculum focusing on integrated approach to the formation of linguistic and specialism-related competence. Application of both non-verbal and verbal visual aids contributes to successful learning by activating students’ thinking and emotional involvement. Academic discourse meant for Listening and Reading highly correlates with professionally oriented documentary discourse based on current scientific research. Audio and video discourse patterns provide the grounds for standard phonation of special terms, which is of primary importance to English where all the lexical items need to be transcribed due to striking discrepancy between their oral and written forms. New Vocabulary items are practised in a variety of speech activities occurring within a study-related situational context. Listening Comprehension is based on classifying lexical terms in accordance with their semantic fields, filling the gaps in the text, and finding the correct order of the events. Reading Comprehension aims at developing students’ skills of reasoning, evaluating and interpreting the contents.