Foreign Language for Specific Purposes

Major: Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Code of subject: 7.162.03.M.017
Credits: 3.00
Department: Foreign Languages
Lecturer: Oleksiv G. D.
Semester: 2 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: By the end of the study learners are expected to be able to: • use different language skills: speaking, reading, listening and writing according to the future profession; • maintain a conversation on familiar study and specialism-related topics, expressing and exchanging opinions and factual information on study and job - related events; • read original literature in the specialty to obtain scientific and technical information; • demonstrate understanding of clear and simple notices, including details on warning, announcements and instructions in academic and job-related events; • make arrangements on the telephone in academic or professional environment, including getting connected, leaving and taking messages, provided the interlocutor’s speech is clearly articulated in a generally familiar accent; • write e-mails for educational purposes conveying simple straightforward information of immediate relevance /close to academic environment and everyday life; • fill in correctly application and registration forms for accommodation and / or for a conference with an appropriate degree of accuracy and adequacy
Required prior and related subjects: Prerequisites: The level of knowledge B1 + Corequisites:.
Summary of the subject: My specialty. Elaboration of additional technical literature. Styles of scientific and technical literature. Elaboration of additional technical literature. Terminology, shortenings.
Assessment methods and criteria: Current control: listening, monologic and dialogic speech, reading, writing. - 60 Control test.- 40 Final control: differentiated test/credit.- 100
Recommended books: English: 1. Getting on in English. Ed. By P.Corness and N.Haiduk. Lviv, 1998. 2. Getting on in English. За ред. І.Байбакової, О.Гасько, М.Федоришина, Львів 2006. 3. Getting on in English (Upper Intermediate). За ред. І.Байбакової, О.Гасько, М.Федоришина, Львів – 2009. 4. Іноземна мова професійного спрямування. Англійська мова для менеджерів. За ред. Н.Мукан, Видавництво „Знання”, 2009. 5. R.Murphy. English Grammar in Use. 1995. 6. E.Glendinning, J.McEwan. Electronics. Oxford, 1993. 7. E.Glendinning. English in Mechanical Engineering. Oxford University Press, 1995. 8. E.Glendinning. English for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Oxford University Press, 1995. 9. Brieger N., Comfort J. (1992) Language Reference for Business English. Prentice Hall International. 10. Cambridge English for Job-hunting (with Audio-CD) / Colm Downes. – Cambridge University Press. – 2nd ed., reprinted. – 2009. – 112 p. 11. Comfort J. (1995) Effective presentations Oxford: Oxford University Press. 12. Comfort, J. (1996) Effective Telephoning. Oxford: Oxford University Press. – 126 p. 13. Cotton D., Robbins S. (1998) Business Class. Unit 4. Longman 14. Cottrell S. (1999) The Study Skills Handbook. London: Macmillan Press Ltd. – 145 p. 15. Словники. 16. Фахова література. German: 1. Kommunikatives Deutsch. Redaktionelle Leitung: Dr. V. Sadoroshnyj, Dr. Th. Seifert, Dr. F. Spitzner, M. Vesna. Lviv, 1998. 2. ‘Deutsch (an den technischen Universitaten)”, М.Весна, Львів, 2009. 3. “Deutsch fur den Beruf”. За ред. М.Весни, В.Задорожного. Растр-7, Львів – 2010. 4. Весна М. Пиндик Н, Шуневич Б. Українсько-німецький словник-мінімум довідникового типу. Львів, 1996. 5. Весна М., Українсько-німецький розмовник. Растр-7, Львів - 1998. 6. Словники. French: 1. “Parlez-vous Francais?”, навчальний посібник з французької мови за редакцією І. Ключковської. Львів, 2000. 2. “Sans frontierеs I”, methode de Francais, CLE international, P. 1992. 3. “Sans frontierеs II”, methode de Francais, CLE international, P. 1992. 4. “Le nouveau sans frontiers I”, CLE international, P. 1997. 5. “Le nouveau sans frontiers II”, CLE international, P. 1997. 6. “Le nouveau sans frontiers III”, CLE international, P. 1997. 7. “Grammaire progressive du francais. Niveau A” CLE international, P. 1996. 8. “Grammaire progressive du francais. Niveau B” CLE international, P. 1996. 9. LE Robert Micro. Dictionnaire de langue francaise. Orthgraphe, grammeire et exemples, difficultes, analogies, synonymes et contraires, phonetique, tableau de conjugaison. 10. „Українсько-французький словник-мінімум довідникового типу”, Л., 1996.