Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: English in engineering 2 (17.EJEI2)

Native organizations units: Department of Fundamentals Sciences

General information:

Category	Academic-general educative
Scientific or art field	Anglistika i jezik struke
ECTS	2

Further mastering the vocabulary related to profession and major and developing the ability to understand texts from different sources. Acquiring complex sentence structures typical for the professional language.

Students possess certain vocabulary present in the scientific technical discourse and are able to use it properly. They are able to read literature related to their field of study, as well as other different forms of technical communication: instructions, brochures, reports etc. In the communication with colleagues they are able to understand and use typical constructions and collocations etc.

Processing of professional texts in English and other forms of technical communication and analysis of their characteristics. Extending the professional vocabulary while adopting common abbreviations. The formation and interpretation of abbreviations. The use of modal verbs and other phrasal verbs. The use of infinitive. The use of -ing clause for expressing the action results.

Lectures are organized around processing certain number of professional texts. Besides traditional exercises for checking the understanding, students solve certain number of exercises using the so called task based approach during the lectures. Typical constructions, expression, phrasal verbs etc. are practiced through communication.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Eastwood, J.	Oxford Practice Grammar - Intermediate	2006	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English
Glendinning, E., Glendinning, N.	Oxford English for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering	2001	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English
Herbert, A.	The Structure of Technical English	1965	Longman, London	English
Grupa autora	Oxford English - Serbian Student Dictionary	2006	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Written part of the exam - tasks and theory	No	Yes	40.00
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	30.00
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00

Foreign Language Lecturer Mirović Ivana

Nastavnik stranog jezika

Lectures

Faculty of Technical Sciences

University of Novi Sad

Contact:

Address: Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6, 21102 Novi Sad

Phone: (+381) 21 450 810
(+381) 21 6350 413

Fax : (+381) 21 458 133
Emejl: ftndean@uns.ac.rs