The course focuses on the specific scientific field relating to Engineering, with the aim of enabling students to use the English language and a specific lexicon autonomously, providing them with strategies to understand texts inherent to their specialization. Students attending this course are expected to achieve a B1.2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference.
Communicative objectives
- Describing situations related to family, work, study, leisure, sports, health
- Giving and asking for information
- Giving and seeking advice (for instance on the creation of prototypes, discussion pf projects, etc.)
- Expressing opinions and providing arguments to support them
- Reading and understanding interviews or articles from specialised journals on topical issues relevant to their area of specialization
- Familiarizing with learning techniques to extrapolate, analyze and discuss a specific text with sufficient autonomy, capturing the general meaning and / or the information required (skimming and scanning, paraphrasing, matching, summary, structuring an answer, etc.).
- Understanding written and oral texts related to the course, extracting the most relevant information.
ITALIAN VERSION
