English for engineers

Anyone here working in engineering or technical field?

EFL for engineering: http://membres.lycos.fr/jcviel/tips/tips1.htm

The file is divided into three parts:
PART I -  TEACHING MATERIALS  (Books, websites, software, videos and media, technical magazines)
PART II -  SYLLABUS  (needs analysis, vocabulary, grammar, planning a syllabus,learning about technology)
PART III- CLASS ACTIVITIES(written work, oral work, advanced students)

PS I expect you ALL to respond to our new class member who have introduced themselves on the blog.  Feel free to ask them questions too

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Reading Technical Material

LINKS

• Lesson Plan: Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games
• Technical Reading and Writing
• Welcome to the English 51 Technical Reading Web Site!
• Online Glossary Tools for Technical Reading (link to downloadable pdf & PostScropt files, zipped optional)
• Quiz on and discussion of technical reading skills & strategies -
• Literary Genres and Techniques (for reading poetry - very different but shows you how much different forms call for different reading techniques. Not all reading is the same...)
• Common Nonfiction Structures in Texts
  

Graphic Organizers help students understand the structure of various non-fiction selections, choose important details from text, and organize this information in a visual way. Many of these organizers can be adapted for fiction as well.

RELATED SKILLS

Taking Notes

Summarization

Writing Summaries is a lifelong skill that can begin in the primary years with story retelling. The ability to synthesize a great deal of material into a few words is a skill that must be practiced with easy text and familiar concepts before it can be applied independently with harder material.

SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review)

Reading Strategies to scaffold interaction with texts

Intensive Reading