Base Knowledge
Students should have a B1 level of English (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
Teaching Methodologies
Although there will be some moments in the classes with a focus on a theoretical approach to the syllabus, more active activities will be privileged, aiming not only a more global participation of the students but also the practice and development of the several necessary skills in a foreign language learning and consolidation process. Therefore, discussion moments, group tasks, and the use of digital platforms of interaction will be proposed as classroom activities.
Learning Results
Objectives: This curricular unit aims to give students the necessary elements that allow them to adequately use the English Language as a privileged vehicle of communication in the Information Technology area.
Skills: In order to prepare the students for a growing international labour market, they will learn contents and terminology related to IT. Grammar pre-intermediate topics will also be revised and consolidated.
Program
I – Information and Computer Technology
1. Operating systems and the GUI
2. Programming
3. Web design
4. Robots, Androids, AI
II – Grammar
1. Verb tenses
2. Time and place prepositions
3. Modal verbs
4. If-clauses
5. Degree of the adjectives
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Main Bibliography:
Esteras, Santiago Remacha and Elena Marco Fabré (2007) Professional English in Use ICT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Glendinning, Eric H. and John McEwan (2006) Oxford English for Information Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Marks, Jon (2012) Check Your English Vocabulary for Computers and Information Technology. Bloomsbury.
Olejniczac, Maja (2011) English for Information Technology. Pearson.
Secondary Bibliography:
Vince, Michael (2010) Intermediate Language Practice. MacMillan.