2010_11
Guia docent 
Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria
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català 
Enginyeria Tècnica en Informàtica de Gestió (1998)
 Assignatures
  ANGLÈS TÈCNIC I
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
Infotech Units 1-5 Computers today: description of a computer; types; uses of PCs at work,school, etc; applications; buying/recomending a PC.
Grammar: present simple passive, compound adjectives, relative clauses.
Vocabulary: computers in education, medicine, entertainment, etc; basic terminology; acronyms; prefixes.
Infotech Units 6-9 Input/output devices: different input devices (scanner, monitor, printer, keyboard functions, mouse); describing devices; advertisements.
Grammar: describing function, comparatives and superlatives, imperative, advice.
Vocabulary: symbols and keys, mouse actions, suffixes, persuasive words,monitors, printers, digital cameras.
Infotech Units 14-15 Basic software: operating systems, graphical user interface, word processing, Windows, cut and paste, word processors.
Grammar: countable and uncountable words, reducing sentences, sequencers.
Vocabulary: operating systems, GUIs, WP programs.
Infotech Unit 18 Faces of the Internet: what's the Internet? Internet software (e-mail, web browser, newsreader, etc); Internet applications; e-mail format and function.
Grammar: be going to + infinitive.
Vocabulary: modem, newsgroup, IRC, Telnet, FTP, HTML, hypertext, URL, etc.
Infotech Units 19-22 Creative software: graphics and design, tool palette, desktop publishing, fonts, web design, multimedia, computers for newspapers, a typical home page.
Grammar: gerunds, affixation, conversion, compounding, modal verbs, conditionals.
Vocabulary: graphics (patterns, dithering, scaling, rendering, etc), DTP packages, web design (HTML tag, etc), multimedia PC (file formats: .htm, .gif, etc).
Infotech Unit 26 Jobs in computing: a job interview, job advertisements, personal qualities and professional skills, applying for a job.
Grammar: for, since, ago; past simple and present perfect.
Vocabulary: jobs, skills, qualities.
Infotech Units 28-30 Computers tomorrow: Internet issues, a computer network, palmtops. Security and privacy on the net, new products.Discussing computer crime; advantages and limitations of handheld computers.
Grammar: making predictions, future continuous, future perfect, may/might/could + infinitive.
Vocabulary: Internet security, new technologies.
Grammar 1 Routine vs moment of speaking, general activities vs current projects, permanent vs temporary (present simple or continuous), ever/never + p. perfect or simple past; simple past vs present perfect; present perfect and continuous/past perfect; sequences.
Grammar 2 Future forms: present continuous, going to future, present simple, will future, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous.
Grammar 3 Revision of conditionals: zero, first second, third. Infinitive vs gerund. Tense changes. Making suggestions:different ways.
Grammar 4 Modal verbs: obligation, no obligation, permission, speculating about the future/present.
Grammar 5 Reported speech: uses, structure of sentences in the different tenses, reporting verbs
Grammar 6 The passive: uses, form, tenses.
Documents Curriculum Vitae, letter of application, job advertisements, making/replying to enquiries, e-mail, giving advice and solutions to problems, advice about uses of computers, recomending a PC.
Listenings Conversations, speeches, opinions, instructions, etc. Taking notes during a listening, completing conversations.