Understanding Technical English (Repost)
Ken Methold and D.D. Waters, "Understanding Technical English"
English | ISBN: 0582690323 | edition 1973 | PDF | 66 pages | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0582690323 | edition 1973 | PDF | 66 pages | 5 MB
This four stage, graded reading course is intended for students of English as a foreign language who wish to relate their reading in English to topics relevant to their future careers as craftsmen or technicians. The course contains the following features:
1 . The reading passages
Each passage is complete in itself. The length of the passages varies from about 250 words in Book One. The topics are of general interest to all technical
students and require little specialised technical know ledge on the part of either the student or the teacher. All technical terms can be understood from the context or from accompanying illustrations. The course can, therefore, be used with confidence by general English teachers who have little technical knowledge.
2. The vocabulary….