Course detail

Technical English I

FSI-TEN1-K Acad. year: 2024/2025 Winter semester

The course covers core language and skills at B2 level that students need to communicate successfully in technical specialisations.

Language of instruction

English

Entry knowledge

The course is intended for students who are familiar with the language at B1 level.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

To pass this course it is necessary, apart from active participation in the class and individual home preparation, to pass the credit test, which is divided into three parts taken on pre-set dates throughout the semester. The maximum score is 50 points and in order to fulfil the credit requirements students must earn a minimum of 30 points. In case this benchmark is not achieved, there is a possibility for the student to resit the test.


Attendance at seminars is compulsory and is systematically checked by the teacher. Students are allowed to miss two seminars.

Aims

The aim of the course is to teach the language skills needed by university students and company employees in a range of engineering branches.

A student who successfully completes the TEN1 course understands the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation. They can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity, explain and present various topics, explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options with the focus on funcional language.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B-STR-K: Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization AIŘ: Applied Computer Science and Control, compulsory

Programme B-STR-K: Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization SSZ: Machine and Equipment Construction, compulsory

Programme B-STR-K: Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization STG: Manufacturing Technology, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

9 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Introduction, U1 – technical description, past tenses and questions revision
2. U1 – technical article, linking
3. U2 – function of a device, passive forms revision
4. U2 – describing properties, modal verbs
5. 1st semester test, U3 – expressing probability, automotive engineering text
6. U3 – note-taking, lecture, summarizing, linkers of contrast, relative clauses
7. U4 – engineering article, physics and mechanical vocabulary, phrasal verbs
8. U4 – instructions and feedback, conjunctions while/as
9. 2nd semester test, U5 – cause and effect links, describing a process
10. U5 – flow diagram, lecture, gerunds and nouns
11. U6 – degrees of certainty, plans, future forms
12. U6 – participating in a meeting, chairing a meeting
13. 3rd semester test

Guided consultation

17 hours, optionally

Syllabus

1. Introduction, U1 – technical description, past tenses and questions revision
2. U1 – technical article, linking
3. U2 – function of a device, passive forms revision
4. U2 – describing properties, modal verbs
5. 1st semester test, U3 – expressing probability, automotive engineering text
6. U3 – note-taking, lecture, summarizing, linkers of contrast, relative clauses
7. U4 – engineering article, physics and mechanical vocabulary, phrasal verbs
8. U4 – instructions and feedback, conjunctions while/as
9. 2nd semester test, U5 – cause and effect links, describing a process
10. U5 – flow diagram, lecture, gerunds and nouns
11. U6 – degrees of certainty, plans, future forms
12. U6 – participating in a meeting, chairing a meeting
13. 3rd semester test