Course Title       Effective English Skills for Engineers Workshop

Course Description

This course is designed for experienced electrical and civil engineers and other technical  staffs with intermediate level English skills who need to use English to communicate with  colleagues or clients. The course focuses in developing participants’ four key                                             communication skills: listening, speaking, reading & writing. It places particular focus on practical engineering topics so that they can perform in their jobs more effectively. Since the  course is of workshop type, students will be given plenty of opportunity to practice the                              language points being introduced in the classroom using role-plays and real-world    situations; thus, allowing long-term learning and immediate error correction.

Objective

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• communicate more accurately & fluently in English
• present with confidence in English
• improve your business writing skills (emails, short reports, etc.)
• expand your professional vocabulary
• improve your understanding of grammar
• read technical (work-related) materials faster
• increase reading comprehension skills

   

  Modes of Teaching and Learning

• Lecture/Discussion
• Role-play (pair & group work activities)
• Oral presentation