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Teaching GuideTerm University College of Technical Architecture |
| Grao en Arquitectura Técnica |
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| Technical English |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Technical English | Code | 670G01037 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Position and location of buildings. Verbs of position. 2. Word formation. Plurals.Greek and Latin endings. Formulae and dates. 3. Complex noun phrases.The article. 4. The Passive voice. Impersonal Passive in Technical English 5. Present perfect/ Simple Past. Order of paragraphs in technical English. 6. Conditional clauses. Experiments. 7. Relative clauses. Ing- construction. 8. Modal verbs. Writing letters. 9. Anglosaxon Genitive / Of- construction. 10. Idioms. Phrasal Verbs. |
1. Foundations. Concrete technology. Constructing a building. 2. Friction. Gravity. Surface area ratio in building construction. 3. Refrigeration. Evaporation. Convection. 4. Dead loads/live loads. Solid walling. 5. Cohesion and permeability. Elasticity. 6. Corrosion. Acoustics in architecture.. 7. Skyscrapers. Detached, semidetached houses. 8. Climates in building construction. Air conditioning. Heating. Insulation. 9. Roofs. Slates. 11. Stress. Thrust/drag. Flight. Factor of safety. Levers. 12. Architects/technical architects. Description of Pirelli Buildingh/farnswotrh house by Mies van der Rohe. |
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