English for Engineers

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English for Engineers
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Nowadays engineering became a worldwide field

• In order to succeed you need the knowledge of
  foreign language.

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• You can already speak English, but you need the
  knowledge of technical language in different
  fields of engineering.
• That is why we designed this course

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English for Engineers

• All the activities in this course are based on
  the topics related to your field. You will read,
  write, listen about famous buildings, see the
  pictures of unusual structures, unique
  constructions. You will look at architecture
  from numerous perspectives at the same time you
  will learn the language you will need in your
  future career.
• You will work with schemes and diagrams, pictures
  and text, audio and video files, even poetry and
  you will work on our own projects.
• Lets take a quick look through typical topics
  and exercises of the module.

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Schemes and drawings
Do you know what are the main functions of each
element of the building? The scheme will help
you to find out.

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What are the most significant, most beautiful,
or most interesting buildings of the past 1,000
years? Some art historians choose the Taj Mahal,
while others prefer he soaring skyscrapers of the
20th century. There is no single correct answer.
Perhaps the most innovative buildings are not
grand monuments, but obscure homes and temples.
In this quick list, we'll take a whirlwind tour
through time, visiting some of the most popular
buildings .. and a few forgotten treasures.
Do you know these ones?
Check in our picture gallery!
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Audio and video files

• Listen to the story The Vatican's Architecture
  
• 'Genius in the Design

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Architecture and poetry

• Arabesque ( Gustav BenJava)
• motion distilled in pure symmetry of lines a
  breath between two dreams a precise pause
  listening step to step

• Definition of Creative Art
• With shirt wide open at the collar,
• Maned as Beethoven's bust, it stands
• Our conscience, dreams, the night and love,
• Are as chessmen covered by its hands.
• And one black king upon the board
• In sadness and in rage, forthright
• It brings the day of doom.-Against
• The pawn it brings the mounted knight.
• In gardens where from icy spheres
• The stars lean tender, linger near,
• Tristan still sings, like a nightingale
• On Isolde's vine, with trembling fear.
• The gardens, ponds, and fences, made pure
• By burning tears, and the whole great span,
• Creation-are only burst of passion

Artist ( Marcia L Laycock) She stares the way
an artist does defining line, shadow, light
feeds herself onto her pallet with slip of
blue yellow white blends her self with dab
flow of her sable brush testing proving the mix
applying by intuition the texture of
knowingsays she loses herself in her workIn the
gallery I found her hung on the wall a hand
beckoning a foot caught fast stretching the
back of her head, her hair and there her eye
unblinking stares from the corner.
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Design and learn

• What is the house of your dream?
• Design your own!

This one?
Or this one?
This one?
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Text and Grammar exercises

• Part I. Architecture and Parts of Buildings
• Exercise 1. Listen to the first part of the text
• The beginning of Architecture
• Compared to other human activities, architecture
  is a young art that had its beginnings only
  10,000 years ago when men and women, having
  discovered agriculture and husbandry, were able
  to give up roaming the surface of the earth in
  search of food. Until then they had been exposed
  to the weather, precariously protected by tents
  of animal skins. Perpetually on the move, they
  cooked over campfires and gathered in small
  tribes.
• All of this changed when people became
  sedentary. Tents were supplanted by more
  substantial abodes, and a permanent hearth became
  the center of the home. Numerous huts sprang up
  in fertile areas villages grew. From village to
  village a network of paths was worn. At times
  paths had to cross rivers, requiring the
  construction of footbridges made out of tree
  trunks or suspended from ropes of vegetable
  fibers.
• In the last ten thousand years we who have
  witnessed the incredible changes brought to our
  cultures by the industrial revolution may feel
  that architecture has not changed much, at least
  over the last 6,000 years. Architecture is the
  most conservative of the human arts.
• Think how you can continue the text.

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• Exercise 2
• Put the verb into the correct form
• He (to start) his book A Visual Dictionary of
  Architecture with a few ideas of different people
  about architecture.
• Architecture ( to depend) on Order, Arrangement,
  Symmetry, Propriety, and Economy
• Exercise 3
• Translate the sentences from English into
  Russian.
• Rural towns are sited, where possible, next to
  rivers or springs, generally southerly slopes.
• Walls are generally made wider just at the bottom
  so as to get a better bearing on the ground

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Writing

• Write a abstract of the text. Compare your
  abstract with ours.

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• Now you are ready to start Module 1. Go back to
  the main page and enjoy.