Professional-orented foreign language
Description: Introduction into the subject area of natural resources in English. Fundamental category-understanding tool in English. Acquaintance with the professional terminology of the specialties. Specific professionally oriented content and its use in the specified professional situations.
Amount of credits: 4
Course Workload:
Types of classes | hours |
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Lectures | |
Practical works | 45 |
Laboratory works | |
SAWTG (Student Autonomous Work under Teacher Guidance) | 15 |
SAW (Student autonomous work) | 60 |
Form of final control | Exam |
Final assessment method |
Component: University component
Cycle: Base disciplines
Goal
- The goal of teaching extra English for special purposes is improving linguistic, communicative, and socio cultural competences and shaping foreign professional communicative competence of the undergraduates which is necessary for business and professional communication on А1-А2 level according to СEFR. The professional competence is shaped during the classroom practice according to the course objectives.
Objective
- - to study the fundamentals of the professional Power Engineering terminology; - to master the methods of working with references of computer orientation using general grammar structures specific for oral and written professionally oriented communication; - to train oral and written skills used in the sphere of Power Engineering.
Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding
- - Grammar structures specific for oral and written professionally-oriented communication; - general professional terminology of Power Engineering.
Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding
- - the ability to work with references and other information sources; - the ability to present the professional information in English as a translation, narration, run-down, plan; -the ability to compose correct and well-reasoned statements orally and in written form in English in the given professional situations;
Learning outcome: formation of judgments
- -the ability to critically asses and select the information in English necessary for the professional activity; - the ability for integrating the specialty knowledge and inference program.
Learning outcome: communicative abilities
- - the ability to use English in new unfamiliar situations of the professional communication orally and in written form.
Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities
- - skills to organize autonomous work with the goal to search, analyze, generalize the specialty material in English.
Teaching methods
Topical research Problem Learning Methods Independent work of increased complexity ICT Research Method Projects
Topics of practical classes
- "Electric Stations" - Acquaintance with the development tendencies and the main technological processes of electric power production at power stations of various types, loads and principles of construction of structural diagrams of stations, I also with basic equipment
- "Electric power systems and networks" introduces the main tasks in the field of transmission and distribution of electrical energy, with the constructive implementation of electrical networks
- "Power Supply" - introduces the main "tasks and prospects for the development of electricity supply and with questions saving energy in modern conditions
- "Relay protection and automation" - introduces ways of automatically eliminating damages to abnormal regimes in the power system, as the most important system, providing e
- "Non-traditional to renewable energy sources" - introduces the development of wind power in the world, as well as gives general ideas about solar power plants for individual and industrial use
- "Three-phase transformers" - features of physical processes in three-phase transformers with separate and common magnetic systems
- Generators of direct current »- classification of generators by excitation method
- "Solar energy" - the potential of solar energy, distribution on the surface of the Earth, converters of radiant energy into electricity, types, energy characteristics
- Natural Resources and Energy "- introduces the energy of small rivers, small rivers of mountain regions, the energy potential and the scheme of HPPs and the use of the Earth's heat, geothermal energy systems
- "World Energy Resources" - introduces the use of energy sources, which are (a) unofficial and (b) accessible to everyone
- " Nuclear Energy " - introduces the energy industry engaged in the production of electrical and thermal energy by converting nuclear energy
Key reading
- David Bonamy.Technical English. Longman: Student’s Book.David Bonamy –Pearson Education Limited, 2008. - 122с
Further reading
- Azar, BettySchrampfer.Understanding and using English grammar: textbook / B.S.Azar. - NY : Longman, 2010. - 477 p
- Русско-казахско-английский политехнический словарь = Орысша-қазақша-ағылшынша политехникалық сөздік = Russian-Kazakh-English Polytechnic Dictionary: more than 80000 terms and phrases. / Қазақстан Республикасының Мәдениет министрлігі. - Алматы : Rond&A. – 2010
- СайтOxford University Press (elt.oup.com/student/oefc/commerce1/)