| Topic |
Sub-topic |
1. English grammar
2. Vocabulary/Use of English
3. Technical-scientific language
4. Speaking
5. Listening
6. Reading comprehension
7. Writing
8. Direct and reverse translation of specific parts of the discourse |
UNIT 1
Reading: Batteries and Flowbatteries.
Reading: Parts of a car.
Speaking: Describing components and materials.
Speaking: Dates, mathematical expressions, web sites and email addresses, chemical formulates.
Listening: Adsense Making Money On-line.
Grammar: Present Simple. |
1. English grammar
2. Vocabulary/Use of English
3. Technical-scientific language
4. Speaking
5. Listening
6. Reading comprehension
7. Writing
8. Direct and inverse translation of specific parts of the discourse |
UNIT 2
Reading: CO2 and the Greenhouse Effect.
Speaking: Describing easy shapes and forms, and dimensions.
Listening: Scientists Say Climate Change is Real and Human Caused.
Writing: Easy paragraph writing.
Grammar: Passive voice. |
1. English grammar
2. Vocabulary/Use of English
3. Technical-scientific language
4. Speaking
5. Listening
6. Reading comprehension
7. Writing
8. Direct and inverse translation of specific parts of the discourse |
UNIT 3
Reading: Job Qualities for an Engineer.
Speaking: Expressing one own's qualities, and personal characteristics and abilities.
Listening: Mobile phones.
Grammar: Relative Clauses.
Writing: Dividing a text into types of paragraphs. |
1. English grammar
2. Vocabulary/Use of English
3. Technical-scientific language
4. Speaking
5. Listening
6. Reading comprehension
7. Writing
8. Direct and inverse translation of specific parts of the discourse |
UNIT 4
Reading: Repairing a Broken Wall Socket.
Speaking: Advantages and disadvantages of the different generation power systems.
Listening: How do Nuclear Power Plants work?
Writing: A description of a repair.
Grammar: Adverbs of sequence; conditional sentences; connectors: contrast, reason, purpose, and result. |
1. English grammar
2. Vocabulary/Use of English
3. Technical-scientific language
4. Speaking
5. Listening
6. Reading comprehension
7. Writing
8. Direct and inverse translation of specific parts of the discourse |
UNIT 5
Reading: Robots - Nothing to lose but their chains.
Speaking: Comparison and contrast.
Listening: Manipulating Glass Properties.
Writing: Cover letters.
Grammar: Verb tenses expressing future; time adverbials; using "enable", "allow", "permit", "make", and "cause". |
1. English grammar
2. Vocabulary/Use of English
3. Technical-scientific language
4. Speaking
5. Listening
6. Reading comprehension
7. Writing
8. Direct and inverse translation of specific parts of the discourse |
UNIT 6
Reading: Difference Engines.
Speaking: Expressing hypothetical future.
Listening: Car Repairs.
Listening: Industrial Can Processing.
Writing: Letter of Motivation.
Grammar: Review of verb tenses. |
1. English grammar
2. Vocabulary/Use of English
3. Technical-scientific language
4. Speaking
5. Listening
6. Reading comprehension
7. Writing
8. Direct and inverse translation of specific parts of the discourse |
UNIT 7
Reading: Properties of Materials.
Reading: Land and Off-shore Windfarms.
Speaking: Expressing cause and effect.
Listening: Innovations is Great (1).
Listening: E-trading and e-trading.
Writing: Easy reports.
Grammar: Expressing cause and effect. |
1. English grammar
2. Vocabulary/Use of English
3. Technical-scientific language
4. Speaking
5. Listening
6. Reading comprehension
7. Writing
8. Direct and inverse translation of specific parts of the discourse |
UNIT 8
Reading: Superconductivity in Orbit.
Speaking: Expressing likelihood.
Listening: Innovation is Great (2).
Writing: Descriptions.
Grammar: Likelihood. |
1. English grammar
2. Vocabulary/Use of English
3. Technical-scientific language
4. Speaking
5. Listening
6. Reading comprehension
7. Writing
8. Direct and inverse translation of specific parts of the discourse |
UNIT 9
Reading: Water is Everything.
Reading: Man-made Building Materials.
Speaking: Materials used in industry: purpose and cause.
Listening: Fuel Cells.
Grammar: Adjectives: present participle, past participle. |
