Author: Glendinning, E.H., Glendinning, N.
Publisher: OUP
Levels: Intermediate (B1+)
Designed for students in universities, colleges and technical schools, as well as for technicians and engineers.
Key features:
-Helps students to combine their knowledge of English with their technical knowledge.
-Develops all four skills through varied activities. Five units out of thirty are based on interviews with students and practising engineers and place more emphasis on listening skills.
-Up-to-date technical content.
-Authentic reading and listening passages covering a wide range of topics, e.g. materials, mechanisms, forces, safety at work, engineering design, automated systems, robotics, hydraulics, process control, and CAD.
-Comprehensive glossary of technical terms which forms a useful mini-dictionary of Engineering.
-Separate Answer Book with a key to all exercises, the tapescripts, and useful unit-by-unit teaching notes.
-Designed for easy use by the non-specialist teacher.