Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
Scientific and Technical English |
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Identifying Data | 2021/22 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Scientific and Technical English | Code | 613G03028 | |||||||||||
Study programme |
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1.ESP: Characteristics of technical discourse 2. Organization of paragraphs 3.Compositions: conjunctionns and descriptions. 4. Nominalization in technical English 5. Definitions of states, processes, materials and qualities 6. Compounds: prefixes, sufixes. 7. Grammar in technical English 8. Oral presentations. Letters. 9. Technical texts in medicine, law, commerce, computing and Internet, architecture and civil engineering |
Definitions. Variations. Cause and effect. Contrast. Technical processes Simple and complex noun phrases Relative clauses /constructions with --ing Common / technical / lay vocabulary Passive voice. Conditional sentences. Simple Present. Idioms. Phrasal verbs. Practical excersises |
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