Printable versionTechnical and Scientific English for Engineers
Dott.ssa Felicity Hope
Timetable 2014-2015
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April 2015 |
Hours |
Room |
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Monday 13 |
11:00-12:30 |
1P |
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Wednesday 15 |
11:00-12:30 |
1P |
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Monday 20 |
11:00-12:30 |
1P |
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Wednesday 22 |
11:00-12:30 |
1P |
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Monday 27 |
11:00-12:30 |
1P |
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Wednesday 29 |
11:00-12:30 |
1P |
| May 2015 | ||
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Monday 4 |
11:00-12:30 |
1P |
| Wednesday 6 | 11.00-12:30 | 1P |
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Monday 11 |
11:00-12:30 |
1P |
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Wednesday 13 |
11:00-12:30 |
1P |
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Monday 18 |
11:00-12:30 |
1P |
| Wednesday 20 | 11:00-12:30 | 1P |
N.B. Students who will gain the final certificate from CLA (after the assessment by prof. Hope) will be acknowledged 3 ECTS (part B of the credits required by the School)
Enrolment procedure
In order to enrol, students have first to take the “test di piazzamento” online at http://web.unitn.it/cla (level assessment test), clicking on “Test di piazzamento”.
Once the test is completed, applicants are informed on the level they are allowed to register to (minimum level is B2a).
In order to access the system and take the test, Students have to use their Esse3 password.
Please note: Students who passed either CLA courses (level B1/B1b, not before March 2014) or CLA Test di piazzamento (level B2a, not before September 2014) are
exempted from repeating the test.
Students can then register to the course (n. 2412) online 23rd to 27th March 2015, starting from 23rd March at 10am. The registration procedure mirrors that for Test
di piazzamento, requiring to access the same webpage and using Esse3 password. Otherwise, students may directly register at CLA Secretariat, 23rd to 27th March,
according to the following schedule: Mon, Wed, Fri – 10am to 12am. Only Wed – 2pm to 4pm.
Please note: Students registering online will be shown by the system a request for payment of a 50 € fee. This is a system fault, the course is free for students.
Students applying online should please, therefore, be sure to confirm their registration to the course even if the request of fee payment is shown – the system will then
inform that the payment is still due. The problem will be solved directly by the CLA Secretariat.
For any further information, please refer directly to the CLA
Programme
Text structure
• Biodata statements
• Problem-solution texts
• Abstracts – types and structure
• Structure of introductions to articles
Grammar of written academic English (Science and Engineering):
• Formal academic grammar
• Use of articles (the, a, uncount, generic references)
• Noun phrases – identifying, awareness of importance
- gerund or noun? – cline of impersonality
- the…of vs noun + noun
- creating compound nouns and Noun Phrases
- hyphens in Noun phrases
- making simpler NP’s using Prep Phr).
• Reduced relative clauses
• Defining v non-defining relative clauses
• Participles
- participle clauses
- position of participles (the solution used or the used solution)
• Hedging of claims
• ‘this’ v ‘it’
• Cohesion with ‘this’
• Position of adverbs
• -ing clauses of result
• Indirect questions
• Language issues arising from students’ work
Presentations:
• phrases for interrupting the speaker
• phrases to signal new topics
• checking understanding
• discussion of presentation techniques
• student presentations and feedback
• common pronunciation problems