VŠTE:N_AJS_1 English for Mechanical Enginee - Course Information

N_AJS_1 English for Mechanical Engineering I.

Extent and Intensity

0/4/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Petr Sádlo (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Libuše Turinská (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Monika Peka Kolafová (assistant)
Mgr. Daniel Raušer (assistant)
Mgr. Karim Sidibe (assistant)
Mgr. Jana Vlasáková (assistant)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Petr Sádlo
Centre of language services – Faculty of Corporate Strategy – Rector – Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
Supplier department: Centre of language services – Faculty of Corporate Strategy – Rector – Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice

Timetable of Seminar Groups

N_AJS_1/S05: Tue 14:50–16:20 D516, Thu 13:05–14:35 D515, P. Sádlo
N_AJS_1/S06: Tue 13:05–14:35 D617, Thu 13:05–14:35 D416, L. Turinská

Prerequisites

required level B1

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Mechanical Engineering (programme VŠTE, NSTR)

Course objectives supported by learning outcomes

The objective is to acquire knowledge of English for specific purposes, specifically English for mechanical engineering. Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to discuss a professional topics (within the topics discussed in seminars), understand authentic texts in English, look up information in English texts, and look up information for preparation and delivery of professional presentation. they are able to write a formal mail related to the topics discussed in the seminars, describe a problem and suggest solutions. They are able to describe mechanisms, causes and results of certain phenomena and processes.

Learning outcomes

Stručná osnova:
1. Jobs – vocabulary, interviews, formal and informal emails.
2. Revision of tenses – present simple vs. present , present perfect.
3. Measurement and dimensions, technical vs. persuasive description.
4. Giving instructions, mechanisms. Machine parts.
5. Describing fixes, explaining processes.
6. Active vs. passive – resent and past passive forms.
7. Welcoming visitors – greetings and farewells, requests, offers, apologies.
8. Quantifiers, countable and uncountable nouns.
9. Planning. First and Second Conditional.
10. Rules and regulations. Equipment documentation.
11. Causes and results, cause-effect verbs, negative prefixes.
12. Reporting accidents, past simple vs. past continuous.
13. Materials – material properties inventions.

Syllabus

• Semináře:
• 1. Jobs – vocabulary, interviews, formal and informal emails.
• 2. Revision of tenses – present simple vs. present , present perfect.
• 3. Measurement and dimensions, technical vs. persuasive description.
• 4. Giving instructions, mechanisms. Machine parts.
• 5. Describing fixes, explaining processes.
• 6. Active vs. passive – resent and past passive forms.
• 7. Welcoming visitors – greetings and farewells, requests, offers, apologies.
• 8. Quantifiers, countable and uncountable nouns.
• 9. Planning. First and Second Conditional.
• 10. Rules and regulations. Equipment documentation.
• 11. Causes and results, cause-effect verbs, negative prefixes.
• 12. Reporting accidents, past simple vs. past continuous.
• 13. Materials – material properties inventions.

Literature

required literature
• HOLLET, V. a J. SYDES, 2009. Tech Talk Intermediate, Student´s Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 120 s. ISBN 978-0-19-457541-6.

recommended literature
• HOLLET, V. a J. SYDES, 2009. Tech Talk Intermediate: Workbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 80 s. ISBN 019457542x.
• POHL, A. a N. BRIEGER, 2002. Technical English. Vocabulary and Gramnmar. Boston: Cengage. 192 s. ISBN 1902741765.

Forms of Teaching

Seminar

Teaching Methods

Frontal Teaching
Group Teaching - Cooperation
Critical Thinking
Individual Work– Individual or Individualized Activity

Student Workload

Activities	Number of Hours of Study Workload
	Daily Study	Combined Study
Preparation for the Mid-term Test	10	10
Preparation for Seminars, Exercises, Tutorial	20	36
Preparation for the Final Test	20	40
final test	1	1
seminar exam	1	1
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion	52	16
Total:	104	104

Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate

Test – final 70 %
Presentation 30 %

Exam conditions

Final Test 70 % (0 – 70 points) and semester exam 30% (0-30). The final test requires the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Successful graduates of the course have to get totally at least 70 points (from both parts of tests).

Semester exam

Presentation - 30 % (i.e. 30 points)

Final test

Final test - 70 % (i.e. 70 points)

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

Attendance in lessons is defined in a separate internal standard of ITB (Evidence of attendance of students at ITB). It is compulsory, except for the lectures, for full-time students to attend 70 % lesson of the subject in a semester.

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