This course is carefully tailored for students of mechanical, electrical and civil engineering studies to provide them with powerful language tools for their future professions. The course will be dealing with all relevant topics related to terminology, communication and common workplace situations, with practical grammar and vocabulary exercises including quizzes and role-plays.
It will focus on how to incorporate terms from their fields of expertise into language skills and functions. Course participants will be provided with the combination of online resources, a variety of media and authentic and interesting texts. Emphasis is placed on developing the strategies for effective listening, reading, speaking and writing in both informal and formal settings.
After the completion of the course, the participants will gain confidence in order to communicate fluently and accurately and use appropriate terminology from their related fields. They will also upgrade their current knowledge of grammar and learn many new practical expressions and phrases – both from general and specialized vocabulary.
PROGRAMME OF THE TRAINING ACTIVITIES:
– Introduction and course overview
– Individual expectations – setting up the course goals
– Learning techniques and methods; developing language skills
– Identifying grammar forms and using grammar to make speaking and writing more appropriate
– Expanding vocabulary:
1. Different engineering fields and possible future career; what it takes to be a good engineer or engineering technician
2. Measurements, numbers and calculations
3. Shapes and forms
4. Technology, materials and tools
5. Electricity; power, supply and distribution
6. Design
7. Manufacturing and assembly
8. Mechanisms and transmission of energy; engines and motors
9. Load, stress and strain
10. Force, deformation and failure
11. Health and safety at work
12. The environment and ecology
– Setting up the task for individual or group presentations for the final day; developing one’s learning plan including methodology and materials;
TOPICS:
– Let’s disassemble a computer/a car/a motorcycle/ an aircraft – parts, tools, materials; their names and use; a quiz: Let’s see what we can remember (materials, tools, parts)
– Overdesign in different fields of engineering; how easy or difficult is it to predict and quantify loads? How serious are the consequences (human and financial) of technical failures? As a result, how high are typical factors of safety?
– Energy efficiency, climate change and environmental sustainability – how to maintain the balance
– Other
– Building self-confidence for public performance
– Body language (exercise)
– Delivery and Feedback
– Summary – goals review
– Reflections – Evaluation