TARGETS AND OBJECTIVES

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 494.

Introduction

List of Abbreviations 78

Tapescripts 62

Notes to the Student 5

Introduction 3

Contents

ENGLISH

BASIC TECHNICAL

For Information Security Engineers

The contents list belowindicates the topic themes for each unit.

Unit 1 Protecting your Computer System(obligation and permission — modals) 6

Unit 2 Designing a Computer System(classification) 10

Unit 3 Optical Fibres(quantity and amount)13

Unit 4 Shape Memory Alloys(cause and effect) 16

Unit 5 What is a Transistor?(properties) 19

Unit 6 Setting up your new Computer(instructions — imperatives) 21

Unit 7 Building a House — the Requirements(probability and forecasting) 26

Unit 8 Installing the 9450 Photocopier(instructions — modals) 30

Unit 9 Printing Processes(process description — past, present and future tenses) 34

Unit 10 Data Communications(tenses — present) 37

Unit 11 Information Retrieval(tenses — present and future) 40

Unit 12 Control Systems(adjectives and adverbs) 43

Unit 13 Project Planning(prepositions of time) 46

Unit 14 Speeding up Air Traffic(prepositions of location and movement) 50

Unit 15 Electronic Assembly(comparison of adjectives) 55

Unit 26 Energy Sources(question formation) 59

These materials are aimed at students who have a professional need for English in technical/industrial fields; people either in, or training for,posts as engineers or technicians. Some of the fields covered are: data processing, electronics, telecommunications, and mechanical engineering. For a full list, see the Contents page.

The materials also develop speaking skills around:

1. problem-solving activities

2. role-plays

3. discussion topics