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Technical and Commercial English
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hekateros
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Technical and Commercial English
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Hello everyone,
I am under a lot of stress as next week I will start teaching Technical and Commercial English to two different university courses: Management and Bio Resourses Management. They will have joint classes and I am not sure what to do about the Bio Resource Management group. I found a lot of material on the internet about commercial, finantial and business English, which in a way will serve both groups. However, it seems to me that it is mostly orientated to Management only. I found some texts about environmental issues but I am not sure it will do...
Has anyone taught this subject to similar courses?
Any ideas as to the Bio Resources side?
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24 Jan 2009
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aftab57
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esl printables also has hundreds of worksheets on the topic of environment. just select this category from the topic list on the main page.
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24 Jan 2009
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BRAHIM S
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Where are you hekateros???
Aftab has been more than helpful to you: he has done an extraordinary job, has provided great internet resources directly related to your request, which must have taken him some time, I guess
And strangely not a even a simple thank you to him.... ???
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24 Jan 2009
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Mariethe House
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I tried to send you a private message but they said: no user name found!!
this is why:
I have devised an evaluation grid according to adviceI found on the brilliant site given by our canadian friend:
http://www.eslprintables.com/forum/topic.asp?id=4046
It is written in French and I will translate it into English but I thought I would show it to some French colleagues first to see what they think of it.
Would you mind having a look at it and give me your opinion Mariethe
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25 Jan 2009
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Mariethe House
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Actually, my message is for you BRAHIM!
Sorry! I just realized it wasn�t clear!
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25 Jan 2009
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BRAHIM S
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Not clear at all
Sorry I can�t follow
Could you make it a bit clearer please!
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25 Jan 2009
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douglas
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Concerning hekateros�s request:
Something that works well for me is to find out some of the large companies that your students deal with (i.e. suppliers, clients, forerunners in the industry) and go to those companies websites and get a feel for what their "tech speak" is. Internet forums are also good for getting a feel for the right "tech speak". A lot of these companies even have websites that you can view in different languages (built-in translation). This is also a help, but be aware that the translations are not always right or the best. Never trust a single site--compare them and make an educated guess.
The term "Technical English" is interesting; it�s kind of like saying "all dialects of English in the world"--you will need to narrow it down. My experience also shows units of measurement (from microseconds to gigawatts to kelvin) are always good and basic physics terms usually help. After that you have to conform the vocabulary to your audience.
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25 Jan 2009
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