Last planned examination: Spring 2000
Decision to discontinue this course:
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Main content
- English grammar
- Vocabulary for engineers and scientists
- Reading and discussion of short texts of a scientific nature.
- Speaking English in small groups as well as to a larger audience.
- Preparation and delivery of a formal individual presentation.
- Technical writing: technical report of a factual/an argumentative nature, summary of a scientific text, description of a technical device, formal letter.
- Listening comprehension followed by discussion of audio material.
The overall aim of the course is to prepare students to interact in an international engineering environment. Upon completion, the student should have reached a level B1+ (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
Listening comprehension
- Understand the content of clear standard speech on topics in the student's field of study or personal interest.
- Understand straightforward factual information.
Reading comprehension
- Understand and give an accurate account of authentic texts of a scientific nature and provide main conclusions.
Speaking
- Interact with others and get across what the student wants, following the main points of extended discussions.
- Communicate accumulated factual information on topics of personal interest or within the student's field of study, work and topical events.
- Orally summarise texts of a general and/or specialised nature.
- Give a formal individual oral presentation.
Writing
- Understand the difference between informal and formal language.
- Write a factual or argumentative report of a technical nature.
- Summarise texts of a general and/or specialised nature.
- Write a short description of a technical implement.
General entrance requirements for university studies and a pass on the compulsory placement test before applying. See our website for the test and more information, www.kth.se/language
Murphy, Raymond & Craven, Miles, English grammar in use: a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate students of English; with answers, 3. ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004
Kompendium
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Three in-class quizzes give bonuspoints to improve the examination grade.
75% attendance. Written work (ANN1; 3 credits), oral work (ANN2; 1,5 credits) and final exam (TEN1; 3 credits)
Technical English, Intermediate Level
The course has limited participation. Students who are not present at course start risk losing their place on the course.
The course programme may be subject to changes and courses with an insufficient number of students can be cancelled, get merged together with other courses or get a reduced number of lessons.
