This course provides trainees with the core language and skills they need to communicate successfully in their specializations.
Course Description:
This course provides trainees with the core language and skills they need to communicate successfully in their specializations. This includes the technical concepts, topics, illustrations, and grammatical structures. It helps trainees build knowledge and confidence in using English in technical and vocational contexts.
Course objectives:
The course aims to consolidate student's previous knowledge of English, and bring it up to a pre-intermediate level which enables them continue courses related to their particular majors.
Communicate using work and major-related technical terms and vocabulary.
Understand simple dialogues, instructions, and descriptions about simple technical topics, objects and processes
Read various types of technical texts and charts with reasonable comprehension using a variety of reading skills such as skimming, scanning, and reading for details.
Utilize all available information such as graphs, charts, diagrams, and pictures to understand texts.
Write short guided texts using relevant vocabulary, basic sentence structure, reasonably correct spelling, and punctuation.
Theoretical and practical units:
Unit 1: Action
Unit 2: Work
Unit 3: Comparison
Unit 4: Processes
Unit 5: Descriptions
Unit 6: Procedures
