Summer Semester 2008/09
Summer Semester 2009/10
Summer Semester 2010/11
język angielski poziom B2 ES3A200003
Course content:
1.What is special about academic English ? formal v. informal English
2.Academic Writing : Giving Opinions - some useful academic words and expressions,structuring an argument, key verbs, key nouns and the words they combine with,
3.Professional English concepts and vocabulary : material types – elements, compounds , mixes Steel & concrete,force,deformation and failure,heat and temperature,fluid containment, water and air pollution, wastes and waste treatment, etc
4.How to plan and make a presentation- basic issues and requirements for a scientific presentation
5. CVs and Covering Letters, Job Interviews
Learning outcomes:
1.acquiring skills in understanding and translating professional publications , ability to write simple academic texts and documents connected with academic jobs,
2.acquiring skills in speaking and presenting ideas and concepts connected with students'specializations
(in Polish) Rodzaj przedmiotu
Course coordinators
Bibliography
a) basic references:
www.woj.piasta.pl BETA
Robin Macpherson, English for Academic Purposes,PWN 2007
Michael McCarthy - Academic Vocabulary in Use
Mark Ibbotson - Cambridge English for Engineering
b) supplementary references:
W.Wójcik - Milestones in Science and Technology:Presentations
Michael McCarthy - English Collocations in Use
E.Sienko,I. Tałałaj - Green Matters
H. Bramska, E. Sieńko - R U red E:) ?