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Ingegneria Informatica/Computer engineering (Academic Year 2006-2007)

Technical English (old version)


Credits: 10
Content language:English
Course description
“Technical English" aims to develop a working level of language skills as close as possible to an intermediate level of English language and jargon (CEFR level B2). It is mandatory for all first-year students. Technical English course will deal with an intermediate level of English and additional specialised language providing a selection of technical topics. With specific related vocabulary and grammar, students will be trained to improve their listening, reading, writing and speaking skills about the language in general and technical contexts.
Prerequisites
Prior English communicative competence at CEFR level A2.
Objectives
The course is intended to provide morphosyntactic and phonological structures of English language, in order to develop learners’ overall communicative competence through the four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing). Moreover, it will focus on technical lexis, and semantic and grammatical aspects of the specialised language.
Program
Listening activities:  Hi, my name's Susan ; What's your name?; I work in a bank ; My mother's name is Jane ; What do we need?; Our flag is red, white and blue ; What time do you get up?; Ted likes playing football ; I have short brown hair and blue eyes ; First Meeting ; A Telephone Conversation ; Live Chatting ; Patrick's Family ; Julia is in a shoe shop. ; Check-in at Heathrow ; Booking a Holiday ; Hurry up!; Listening - Radio Interview ; On the Beach in Malta ; Making Requests; Last Night; Money Words; Polyphemus; What's happening?; Tourism; Telephoning; Food Adjectives; What's Roger talking about?; Listening for Important Information; Listening for Details; What shall we do tonight?; Small Talk; This year, I'm going to...; The Light at the End of the Tunnel; Without a Trace; You shouldn't judge a book by its cover; A Tale of Two Cities; What the future holds; Get a Bite to Eat; Celebrity Challenge; Are you good with your hands?; This is the 6 o'clock news; Bending the Facts; At the Check-In Desk; Food Fallacies; Parting is such sweet sorrow. Reading activities:  Social Language: Meeting Friends ; What's my job?; Present Simple: Describing People ; Gail's Day ; What's her star sign?; Jean - Luc's Day ; Do you live in London?; Hotels ; Julia's Profile ; Miwako and Simone ; Describing Characters ; Malta ; Luca's Day ; Simone and Miwako are chatting on the net; Dostojevsky; Where were you?; A Short Story; New Chinese Tourism; Thomas Harris; Travel Quiz ; What do you think?; A Roman in London; An E-mail from Luca to Lisa; The Great British Pub; Reading Signs; Liverpool; Inter Rail Train Tickets; Great Britain; Accommodation; Travelling Abroad; Easter; Interculture - Breaking the Ice; Make a New Start; She disappeared without a trace; Reading Abbreviations; I did it my way!; Life on Mars?; Air Travel; The Great British Cup of Tea; Shakespeare: the Great Bard and Wordsmith. Writing activities:  Personal Details ; Completing a Form ; My Diary ; Describing People ; Holiday Postcards ; Describing People ; Finding the Perfect Mate ; Postcard from China ; About Anil ; A Postcard from Malta ; Writing an E-mail ; What did Luca do yesterday?; Wish you were here!; Writing Personal Details; Postcards; British and American Spelling; Introduction to Letters; Covering Letters; Presenting and Interpreting Information; E-mails: Formality and Informality; Written Reports; Thank you Letters; Writing E-mails; VII.8 - Writing - E-mail Invitations; Narrating / Story-Telling; Linking Words; Structuring and Signposting an Argument; Spotting Mistakes; Limericks. Speaking activities:  Social Language: Introductions ; What's this? It's a book ; This is my mum ; In a Restaurant ; What's the time?; Writing - My Diary ; Presenting Yourself ; Can I pay by credit card?; Giving Directions ; Could you...?; Do you like your job?; What did you do last weekend?; The Best and the Worst; Common Errors; Sport; Exclamations; He was absolutely furious!!!; Keep the Ball Rolling; Numbers. Focus on grammar:  Verb 'to be': Introduction ; 'this'/'that' - 'these'/'those' ; His name's David/Her name's ; 'to be': yes/no questions and answers ; 'to be': Negative ; Present Simple ; Possessive 's ; Questions with 'do' ; I like'/'I don't like' ; Possessive Adjectives ; 'usually'/'sometimes'/'never' ; I like shopping ; 'there is' / 'there are' ; 'some' / 'any' ; Prepositions of Time ; Past Simple: 'to be' ; The verb 'to be' ; Possessive Adjectives ; The Present Simple ; The Present Simple: Negative ;Plurals ; Comparative Adjectives ; The Imperative ; Superlative Adjectives ; 'Can I...?' - 'Can you...?' ; 'There is' - 'There are' ; Possessive Form: 's ; Past Simple ; Whose ; The Present Perfect ; Would you like...?; 'much' / 'many' / 'a lot of' ; 'have' - 'have got' ; Expressions of Time ; Uses of 'can' ; Infinitive of Purpose ; Present Simple vs Past Simple; Past Simple; Irregular Verbs; Present Continuous vs Present Simple; Present Continuous for Future; 'will'; 'going to'; Making Predictions; Regular vs Irregular Verbs; Past simple vs Present perfect; Prepositions of Movement; Present Perfect; 'some', 'any', 'most', 'none', 'all'; 'used to' / 'to be used to'; Past Continuous; Countable and Uncountable Nouns; The Past Perfect (simple); 'It takes'; First Conditional; 'for' / 'since' / 'ago'; Words + Prepositions; Adverbs; Adjectives; Question Tags; Present, Past, and Future; Speculating about the Past; Verb Phrases with –ing; Review of Future Tenses; Conditional Sentences; Have the Car Repaired; The prisoners are thought to be hiding...; Direct and Reported Speech. Focus on Lexis:  Spelling of Plural Nouns ; Countries and Nationalities ; Jobs ; Numbers 21 to 100 ; The Family ; Food and drink ; Eating out ; Colours ; Time ; Lifestyles ; Leisure Activities ; Months, seasons ; Jobs and Numbers ; Colours and Clothes ; The Family ; Physical Descriptions ; Definitions ; Shopping ; Vocabulary of Time ; Parts of the Body ; Food and Drink ; Bed & Breakfast ; Holidays ; Uses of 'to get' and Phrasal Verbs ; Jobs ; The Weather ; Birth and Marriage; Abbreviations; Frequently Confused Words; Prepositions; Telephone Expressions; Phrasal Verbs; The Big Step; 'yet'; False Friends; Catch the Meaning!; Catch the Meaning!; Common Spelling Mistakes; More Frequently Confused Words; Phrasal Verbs; Talking about Travelling; Talking about Personality; Talk until the Cows Come Home; British and American Vocabulary; Word Building: Adjectives from Nouns; Formal and Informal Vocabulary; Idioms with Parts of the Body (1); Idioms with Parts of the Body (2); Here is one we prepared earlier; Odd Jobs; Word-Building: Nouns from Verbs; Ways of Speaking; Money Makes the World Go Round; Letter of Complaint; Honesty is the best policy; The Long Arm of the Law; Expressions with Parts of the Body; Common Sayings. Focus on Phonology:  Spelling of Plural Nouns ; Vowel Sounds ; 'fish'/'tree' ; 'cat'/'car'/'train' ; 'book'/'new'/'nut' ; 'when' / 'what' / 'where' ; Word Stress ; Letters and Sounds ; Dates and Spelling ; thing' or 'think' ; Words that Sound the Same ; The 's' Sound ; Vowels ; The 'h' Sound ; Vowels ; The 'r' Sound ; Vowel Sounds; 'much' or 'many'?; 'lay' or 'lie'?; Weak Vowel Sounds; 'yet' or 'just'?; Word Stress; The 'girl' Sound; Intonation in Question Tags; Weak Forms; 'Have' with Modals; British and American Accents; D'ya know what I mean?; Linking with 'r' and 'w'; Unstressed Syllables; Whole lotta love!; Aspects of Connected Speech: Elision. Revision and Evaluation activities for each Module.
Book
Engineering : Mark Ibbotson, Cambridge English for Engineering, Student's Book with Audio CDs, Cambridge University Press, codice ISBN 978-0-521--71518-8. Information and Communication Technology : Santiago Remacha Esteras and Elena Marco Fabré, Professional English in Use: ICT, Book with answers, Cambridge University Press, codice ISBN 978-0-521--68543-6. Management : Arthur McKeown and Ros Wright, Professional English in Use: Management, Book with answers, Cambridge University Press, codice ISBN 978-0-521--17685-9. Additional Bibliography English Grammars (elementary level of the CEFR): Murphy R.; Pallini L., Essential Grammar in Use + Key + Cd Rom, Cambridge University Press; Vince M,. Cerulli G., Into grammar student's book pack+ Cd Rom, Macmillan; Swan M., Walter C. with Bertocchi D., The Good Grammar Book for Italian students (with CD ROM), Oxford University Press. English Grammars (intermediate level of the CEFR): Murphy R. English Grammar in Use for intermediate students with answers, Cambridge University Press; Eastwood J., Oxford Practice Grammar with answers, Oxford University Press; Vince M., Pallini L., English Grammar Practice for Italian with key Students, Macmillan & Heinemann. Dictionaries : Cambridge Learner Dictionary of English (with CD) Cambridge University Press; Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary; Oxford Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary ; MacMillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners New Edition 2008 (with CD ROM, thesaurus and exercises) Macmillan.
Exercises
Additional tasks: - Progress Tests. - Compositions. - Questionnaires.
Professor
Professor not available
List of lessons
    •  Lesson n. 1: A1 - Module I
    •  Lesson n. 2: A1 - Module II
    •  Lesson n. 3: A1 - Module III
    •  Lesson n. 4: A1 - Module IV
    •  Lesson n. 5: A1 - Module V
    •  Lesson n. 6: A1 - Module VI
    •  Lesson n. 7: A1 - Module VII
    •  Lesson n. 8: A1 - Module VIII
    •  Lesson n. 9: A1 - Module IX
    •  Lesson n. 10: A1 - Module X
    •  Lesson n. 11: A2 - Module I
    •  Lesson n. 12: A2 - Module II
    •  Lesson n. 13: A2 - Module III - M3
    •  Lesson n. 14: A2 - Module IV - M4
    •  Lesson n. 15: A2 - Module V - M5
    •  Lesson n. 16: A2 - Module VI - M6
    •  Lesson n. 17: A2 - Module VII
    •  Lesson n. 18: A2 - Module VIII
    •  Lesson n. 19: A2 - Module IX
    •  Lesson n. 20: A2 - Module X
    •  Lesson n. 21: B1 - Module I
    •  Lesson n. 22: B1 - Module II
    •  Lesson n. 23: B1 - Module III
    •  Lesson n. 24: B1 - Module IV
    •  Lesson n. 25: B1 - Module V
    •  Lesson n. 26: B1 - Module VI
    •  Lesson n. 27: B1 - Module VII
    •  Lesson n. 28: B1 - Module VIII
    •  Lesson n. 29: B1 - Module IX
    •  Lesson n. 30: B1 - Module X
    •  Lesson n. 31: B2 - Module I
    •  Lesson n. 32: B2 - Module II
    •  Lesson n. 33: B2 - Module III
    •  Lesson n. 34: B2 - Module IV
    •  Lesson n. 35: B2 - Module V
    •  Lesson n. 36: B2 - Module VI
    •  Lesson n. 37: B2 - Module VII
    •  Lesson n. 38: B2 - Module VIII
    •  Lesson n. 39: B2 - Module IX
    •  Lesson n. 40: B2 - Module X