ENGLISH FOR NAUTICAL

 Target of learners are a group of captain

 Approaches to Needs Analysis : Target Situation Analysis (TSA), seeks to establish what learners need
to know in order to function effectively in the target situation.
 Method of needs analyses : Interview
 Needs analyses :
- Enable to know Maritime English language
- Enable to communicate with other people from different countries
 A SYLLABUS
ENGLISH FOR NAUTICAL STUDENTS

Level : Intermediete
Skill : Speaking, Writing, Listening, Reading

Number of Meeting : 14 times ( 14 x 50’)

Goal :

1. Students enable to use Maritime English in their professional environment

2. Students enable to understand and apply specific information
3. Students enable to organize and present ideas in a clear and logical way (Power-point presentations)
4. Students enable to skim the text for the main idea, to scan the text for the specific information, to interpret the text and to deduce the
meaning from the context.
5. To develop students’ writing skill for a range of writing activities such as short reports, and interpretation of data.

No Basic Competence Indicator Material Learning Activity Evaluation Time Source

 To know what  What is ESP  Writing the

Introduction to the is ESP for  Definition of definition Book
course : What is nautical nautical what is ESP for Course for
1 ESP for nautical nautical Written test 2 x 50’ English
Nautical
 To know how to  To  Tenses  Ordering
use and pronounce communicate  Passive voice  Request
Nautical/ Maritime with crews/  Conditionals  Greetings
English mariners  Giving
 Modals
 To give opinions,
informations  Vocabulary
agreement/
Book
to others disagreement
2 Written test and Course for
 To order the  Making
spoken test English
crews conversation
4 x 50’ Nautical
with chosen
and
topic
Internet
 Practice the
conversation

 To know types  Vocabulary  Make a short

of document  Grammar report and
To develop  To make a  Conditionals command.
students’ writing report  Modals  Show the
skill for a range of  To distribute  Language for main idea of
Book
writing activities the reports the report and
Course for
3 such as short information to  Writing short command. Written test 2 x 50’
English
the crews/ reports
reports, and Nautical
mariners
interpretation of
 To identify
data. interpretation
data.

 To receive  Phrases for  Listening to Book

4 some greetings, conversation Listening test 2 x 50’ Course for
To understand and
informations introductions, about some English
 apply specific partings topics ( Nautical,
information  To  Modals (Could I, greetings, Internet
communicate Would you like introductions,
appropriately to, etc) partings, etc)

 To make  Language of  Giving a Book

To understand presentation presentations, presentation Course for
how to organising  To answer and slides  Handling and Written test and English
5 2 x 50’
and presenting a ask questions  question forms asking spoken test Nautical
presentation questions and
internet
To develop  Increase  Reading text  Reading text.
students’ reading reading skill.  Translation  Identify the
skills to enable  Identify the  Vocabulary main idea
them to skim the specific  Tenses from the text.
text for the main information.  Translate the Book
idea, to scan the  To interpret word into Course for
6 text for the specific and translate correct Written test 2 x 50’
English
information, to the text. meaning. Nautical.
interpret the text
and to deduce the
meaning from the
context.