English for Civil Engineers

Introduction

English for Civil Engineers is an online course, consisting of 93 units of English, and providing approximately 100 hours of study for students.

Course aims

To give students at Intermediate, CEFR B1/Upper Intermediate B2 level practice in general and business-oriented language required for business contexts at this level, specifically tailored towards the specialisation of civil engineering. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level, with vocabulary, reading, listening, writing, speaking and pronunciation.

Грамматика

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

• Use present and past tenses correctly
• Use the appropriate conditional forms to talk about situations and consequences
• Use the present perfect to describe a link between past and present events
• Use going to and will to talk about future predictions and intentions
• Use the passive form correctly
• Distinguish and be able to correctly describe countable and uncountable nouns

Словарный запас

• By the end of the course students will have learnt approximately 120 expressions used in civil engineering

Skills

• By the end of the course students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing formal and informal English from a variety of accents and civil engineering contexts

Unit summary

Follow-up

Students completing the English for Civil Engineers course should feel confident in tackling any upper intermediate course, including our Upper Intermediate Business Power course.