Technical-Scientific English and Communication

1. Elaboration of an oral presentation, individually or in pairs, based on the research of a scientific article from B-On overcoming an innovative and recent subject on biotechnology.

2. Elaboration of short tasks for self-assessment from the viewing of short technical videos;

3. Elaboration of a group project for practising the financial submission of the pitching of n an idea, practising the use of formal letter writing and CV.

4. Written test.

The student who succeeds in this CU has acquired the following competences:

2.1. Recognises the specificities of the technical-scientific speech in Portuguese and English.

2.2. Gathers, analyses and selects information in both languages.

2.3. Identifies and uses, in a creative manner, the syntax and rhetoric appropriate to technical-scientific

speech in the production of written texts.

2.4. Identifies and uses the appropriate grammar resources.

2.5. Presents and explains topics and issues of his/her field of expertise orally.

2.6. Collects, processes, uses and produces information.

In accordance with the methodology of the theoretical practical classes of the CU.

Syllabus:

Communication:

1.How to prepare an oral presentation;

2. The internship report, its parts and the appropriate language to its writing;

3. The bibliographical norms NP 405 and APA 7th edition.

II English Language:

1.Reading comprehension of texts on biotechnology and agriculture, food safety, genetic engineering, and biomedical sciences.

2. Writing of CV and formal letters.

3. Grammar: irregular plural of nouns, countables and uncountables, the numbers, the articles, tense revision, the passive voice.

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