English that architects need
Common needs include:
- Speaking with prospective or actual clients, suppliers, business partners and colleagues
- Reading rules and regulations, catalogues, architecture journals and textbooks
- Writing emails, proposals, reports (e.g. progress reports) and essays
- To pass exams and to join professional associations
- Attending and presenting at conferences
- Giving presentations
If they are spending time in an English-speaking country, they might also have to deal with government representatives (e.g. health and safety inspectors).
Functions that are likely to come up while speaking are (in no particular order):
- Negotiating
- Dealing with enquiries
- Explaining why things have changed
- Explaining why things are impossible
- Responding to complaints
- Asking for more information
- Making arrangements
There will also be things specific to emailing, teleconferencing etc if (as is likely) they have to do those things. A lot of the language above can easily be adapted from ESP and Business English books by replacing words like “balance sheet” and “corporate restructuring” with more relevant vocabulary.
Vocabulary they might need includes:
- Types of building (“old people’s home”)
- Parts of buildings and particular types of them (“thatched roof”, “partition wall” etc)
- Building and decorating materials
- Stages of the process of finishing a building
- Things architects do (e.g. “estimate” and “model”)
- Things they use in their job (e.g. “set square”), especially if they have foreign colleagues
- Things other related people use and do, e.g. “lay foundations” and “estimate”
- Vocabulary connected to rules and regulations
- Colours
- Shapes
- Fittings and decorations
- Positive and negative adjectives to describe buildings and people’s reactions to them
- Actions that people do in buildings
- Finance related to buildings (e.g. “mortgage” and “rent”)
- Architectural styles and trends (“postmodern” etc)
The grammar they need will obviously be more general, but in the same way as a Technical English or Business English textbook will vary the order and priority given to grammar points, you can do the same for your English for Architects classes. For example, time expressions and future tenses are likely to be even more important for architects than for other professionals. Depending on what exactly your students do, the same may be true for numbers and quantifiers.
Profesor: Rita Leticia Cordero Olvera
During this course the students will develop their receptive and productive abilities (speaking, writing, reading and listening)
During this course the students will develop their receptive and productive abilities (speaking, writing, reading and listening)
Profesor: VIRIDIANA CRISTINA AGUILAR NAVARRO
During this course the students will develop their receptive and productive abilities (speaking, writing, reading and listening)
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1. To be able to speak and write with correction, fluidity and communicative efficiency in both general and professional environments. 1. 2. To meditate upon the systematic aspects of the different English language uses from different analytic perspectives: phonetics, phonology, lexical, morphology, semantics, syntax, discursive, pragmatic, stylistic and sociolinguistic. 2. 3. 3. To be able to understand and analyze the evolution of written English literature and its expansion and popularization through cinema and the media. 4. 5. 4. To have knowledge about main English texts, authors and literary movements of the English speaking countries. 6. 7. 5. To be able to understand the historical and cultural reality of the English speaking countries. 8. 9. 6. To learn the basics of translations from Catalan and Spanish to English and from English to Catalan and Spanish. 10. 11. 7. To be able to serve as a language interpreter in communicative situations which involve speakers of Catalan, Spanish and English. 12. 13. 8. To be able to be autonomous in the process of language learning. 14. |
Los
alumnos aprenderán a expresarse y explicar temas relacionados con las distintas
personalidades, el medio ambiente, relaciones, los estilos de vida, la música y
las actividades recreativas. Los alumnos tendrán la capacidad de expresarse
claramente referente a estos ámbitos así como usar una gran variedad de temas,
conectores, verbos, términos y recursos de explicación para que puedan mantener
una conversación o un escrito en inglés.
Los
alumnos comprenderán los fundamentos de las conversaciones casuales en inglés,
referente a los ámbitos de la educación, las historias personales, el estilo,
las modas, las preguntas exploratorias casuales, las discusiones sobre temas
globales y de interés general y la organización personal y exploratoria. Los
alumnos tendrán todas estas capacidades al final a través del habla, la
escritura y el escuchar.
Al concluir éste, el alumno será capaz de comunicarse a un nivel intermedio avanzado, será capaz de leer, con elevada comprensión, textos de su interés; extraer ideas principales e información específica de un texto; tomará notas con detalle sobre tópicos de su interés que le sean familiares; poder escribir cartas sencillas, sinopsis breves; parafrasear; escribir resúmenes sobre biografías.
