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| 020 | _a9781859649398 (Student book with CDs) | ||
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| 100 | 1 | _aDunn, Marian | |
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_aEnglish for Mechanical Engineering in Higher Education Studies / _cMarian Dunn, David Howey and Amanda Ilic, with Nicholas Regan ; Terry Phillips (Series Editor). |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | _aEnglish for mechanical engineering. |
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_aReading, UK : _bGarnet Education Limited, _c2010. |
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_a131 p. : _bill. (chiefly col.) ; _c28 cm. + _e2 CDs (111 min.) |
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| 440 | _aEnglish for Specific Academic Purposes | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes glossary. | ||
| 505 | _a "English for Mechanical Engineering is a skills-based course designed specifically for students of mechanical engineering who are about the enter English-medium tertiary level studies. It provides carefully graded practice and progression in the key academic skills that all students need, such as listening to lectures and speaking in seminars. It also equips students with the specialist language they need to participate successfully within a mechanical engineering department. Extensive listening exercises come frome mechanical engineering lectures, and all reading texts are taken from the same field of study. There is also a focus throughout on the key mechanical engineering vocabulary that students will need. | ||
| 505 | _aListening: how to understand and take effective notes on extended lectures, including how to follow the argument and identify the speaker's point of view. | ||
| 505 | _aSpeaking: how to participate effectively in a variety of realistic situations, from seminars to presentations, including how to develop an argument and use stance markers. | ||
| 505 | _aReading: how to understand a wide range of texts, from academic textbooks to Internet articles, including how to analyze complex sentences and identify such things as the writer's stance. | ||
| 505 | _aWriting: how to produce coherent and well-structured assignments, including such skills as paraphrasing and the use of the appropriate academic phrases. | ||
| 505 | _aVocabulary: a wide range of activities to develop students' knowledge and use of key vocabulary, both in the field of psychology and of academic study in general. | ||
| 505 | _aVocabulary and Skills banks: a reference source to provide students with revision of the key words and phrases and skills presented in each unit. | ||
| 505 | _aFull transcripts of all listening exercises." (Book Cover) | ||
| 505 | _aBOOK MAP | ||
| 505 |
_aUnit 1: WHAT IS ENGINEERING? (Listening + Speaking)
_tTopics: Definition of engineering - Branches of engineering - The history of mechanical engineering _tVocabulary Focus: Words from general English with a special meaning in engineering - Prefixes and suffixes _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tListening - Preparing for a lecture - Predicting lecture content from the introduction - Understanding lecture organization - Choosing an appropriate form of notes - Making lecture notes _tSpeaking: Speaking from notes |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 2: ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS (Reading + Writing)
_tTopics: Engineering achievements in the 20th century - Refrigeration and air-conditioning - Codes and standards for machines _tVocabulary Focus: English-English dictionaries: headwords, definition, parts of speech, phonemes, stress markers, countable/uncountable, transitive/intransitive _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tReading: Using research questions to focus on relevant information in a text - Using topic sentences to get an overview of the text _tWriting: Writing topic sentences - Summarizing a text |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 3: FORCES ON MATERIALS (Listening + Speaking)
_tTopics: Materials in engineering - Forces on materials: stress and strain - Five types of forces _tVocabulary Focus: Stress patterns in multi-syllable words - Prefixes _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tListening: Preparing for a lecture - Predicting lecture content - Making lecture notes - Using different information sources _tSpeaking: Reporting research findings - Formulating questions |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 4: COMPUTERS IN ENGINEERING (Reading + Writing)
_tTopics: Computer-assisted manufacturing (CAM) - Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) - Using computers for research _tVocabulary Focus: Computer jargon - Abbreviations and acronyms - Discourse and stance markers - Verb and noun suffixes _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tReading: Identifying topic development within a paragraph - Using the Internet effectively - Evaluating Internet search results _tWriting: Reporting research findings |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 5: MEMS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY (Listening + Speaking)
_tTopics: Features of MEMS and nanotechnologies - Design and applications - Safety and ethical issues concerning nanotechnology _tVocabulary Focus: Word sets: synonyms, antonyms, etc. - The language of trends - Common lecture language _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tListening: Understanding "signpost language" in lectures - Using symbols and abbreviations in note-taking _tSpeaking: Making effective contributions to a seminar |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 6: FRICTION (Reading + Writing)
_tTopics: Characteristics and types of friction - Uses of friction in mechanical engineering design - Tribology _tVocabulary Focus: Synonyms, replacement subjects, etc., for sentence-level paraphrasing _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tReading: Locating key information in complex sentences _tWriting: Reporting findings from other sources: paraphrasing - Writing complex sentences |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 7: THE FUTURE OF CARS: BATTERY POWER (Listening + Speaking)
_tTopics: Battery production - Car technologies; internal combustion engine, electric motors and hybrids - Research and development _tVocabulary Focus: Compound nouns - Fixed phrases from mechanical engineering - Fixed phrases from academic English - Common lecture language _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tListening: Understanding speaker emphasis _tSpeaking: Asking for clarification - Responding to queries and requests for clarification |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 8: ENGINEERING AND SUSTAINABILITY (Reading + Writing)
_tTopics: Concepts in engineering and sustainability - Sustainability challenges for engineering _tVocabulary Focus: Synonyms - Nouns from verbs - Definitions - Common "direction" verbs in essay titles (discuss, analyze, evaluate, etc.) _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tReading: Understanding dependent clauses with passives _tWriting: Paraphrasing - Expanding notes into complex sentences - Recognizing different essay types/structures: descriptive - analytical - comparison/evaluation - argument - Writing essay plans - Writing essays |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 9: HEALTH AND SAFETY (Listening + Speaking)
_tTopics: Health and safety regulations - Health and safety in the workplace - Case studies: oil rig disasters - Case studies: rail accident _tVocabulary Focus: Fixed phrases from health and safety - Fixed phrases from academic English _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tListening: Using the Cornell note-taking system - Recognizing digressions in lectures _tSpeaking: Making effective contributions to a seminar - Referring to other people's ideas in a seminar |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 10: ACCIDENT ANALYSIS IN CONSTRUCTION (Reading + Writing)
_tTopics: Case study: Hyatt Regency Hotel collapse - Case studies: 'design and build' contracts _tVocabulary Focus: "Neutral" and "marked" words - Technical and semi-technical words from engineering - Fixed phrases from academic English _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tReading: Recognizing the writer's stance and level of confidence or tentativeness - Inferring implicit ideas _tWriting: Writing situation-problem-solution-evaluation essays/writing assignments - Using direct quotations - Compiling a bibliographic/reference list |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 11: WIND TURBINES (Listening + Speaking)
_tTopics: Development of wind power - Wind turbines: design problems and solutions - Horizontal and vertical axis turbines _tVocabulary Focus: Words/phrases used to link ideas (moreover, as a result, etc.) - Stress patterns in noun phrases and compounds - Fixed phrases from academic English - Words/phrases related to wind energy and wind turbines _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tListening: Recognizing the speaker's stance - Writing up notes in full _tSpeaking: Building an argument in a seminar - Agreeing/disagreeing |
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| 505 |
_aUnit 12: WATER ENGINEERING (Reading + Writing)
_tTopics: Types of water and water distribution - Desalination technologies - Laboratory report: flow in pipes _tVocabulary Focus: Definitions - Referring back using pronouns and synonyms - Words/phrases to describe mechanical processes in water engineering - Common verb + noun phrases used in laboratory reports _tSKILLS FOCUS: _tReading: Understanding how ideas in a text are linked - Note-making from texts - Labelling a diagram _tWriting: Writing a comparison summary from notes - Writing a laboratory report section from notes |
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| 521 | _aUpper intermediate to proficiency ; IELTS 5.0 - 7.5+ ; CEF B2 - C2. | ||
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_aEnglish language _vTextbooks for foreign speakers. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aMechanical engineering. | |
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_aEnglish language _vEnglish for specific purposes. |
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_aEnglish language _vEnglish for academic purposes. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aUpper intermediate to proficiency. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aB2 to C2 (CEFR). | |
| 700 | _aHowey, David | ||
| 700 | _aIlic, Amanda | ||
| 700 | _aReagan, Nicholas | ||
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_aPhillips, Terry _d1949- |
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