English For Engineering

Week 2
Session 4
 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, students will be able to
Fill in a graphic organizer with key ideas from article 1.
Describe how plastic is made and identify the different
processes it involves.
Listen to news reports and identify main and specific
information to fill in a table.
Use appropriate language to make predictions showing
different degrees of certainty.
Identify and use vocabulary and language for plastic
applications.
Article 1: New engineered material
can cool roofs, structures with zero
energy consumption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4lcqAWcXqE
Future shapes - Discuss
To make predictions, we can show.
CERTAINTY

PROBABILITY

POSSIBILITY
Say each of the predictions in a different way with the same meaning.
Do this task.
English For Engineering

Week
Week 2 1
Session 4
 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, students will be able to
Identify steps in different processes in moulding shapes.

Use active and passive voice to describe a process.

Identify the steps involved in extrusion and blow moulding to

shape plastic.

Use verbs and phrases to refer to a visual.

Complete a table with different parts of speech to expand

vocabulary.

Explain a process in their field of study using a diagram.

not hollow hollow
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/solid
 Injection Moulding of Plastic
Rearrange the sentences according to the diagram.
 Find two words that contain the letters eject.
Which tense
WhichInjection
is used in the underlined
Moulding
ones mean thrown out andof
sentences?
Plastic
which one means
ejected injected
pushed in?
C. Small pieces (or pellets) of plastic are fed from the hopper to
the cylinder.
E. The pellets are pushed along the cylinder by a rotating screw,
and heated.
B. The screw stops rotating and then a ram in front of the screw
moves straight forward.
D. The soft, warm plastic is pushed towards a nozzle by the ram.
G. The soft plastic is injected through the nozzle into a shaped
cavity between the two halves of a mould.
F. Inside the cavity, the plastic is cooled by the mould, and
becomes hard.
A. The mould opens and the cold, hard, solid plastic shape is
ejected.
English For Engineering

Week 2
Listen to the talk
and check the order
Movement (NOUN) Move (VERB)
extrusion
heating
melting
transfer
rotation
cooling
expansion
blowing
ejection
inflation
closure
 METACOGNITIVE ACTIVITY
Choose a process in your field of study.
Describe the process using the language and vocabulary
words learned in this session.
Language to be used:

Sequencing words: First, Then, Next, and

Finally.
Passive and active voice.
Phrases to describe graphs:
As you can see / As can be seen
As figure shows
The second / third stage .
References:
Bonamy, D (2011) Technical English 3. UK. Pearson
C. Jacques (2011) Technical English 3. Workbook. UK. Pearson.
Cambridge dictionary, http://dictionary.cambridge.org Last retrieved
10/03/17
New engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy
consumption. University of Colorado. 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4lcqAWcXqE Last retrieved
10/3/17.