Course detail

Technical English II

FSI-TEN2-K Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer semester

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Prerequisites

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The credit requirements are based on student’s work during the semester and a credit test. During the semester the student can earn 4 marks for fulfilment of optional assignments and at the end of the semester they take a credit test, in which they can earn 40 marks. In order to fulfil the credit requirements, the student must earn a minimum of 24 marks in total. In case this benchmark is not achieved, there is a possibility for the student to resit the test once in the exam period.

Attendance is not compulsory.

Language of instruction

English

Aims

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B-STR-K: Engineering, Bachelor's
branch AIŘ: Applied Computer Science and Control, 0 credits, compulsory

Programme B-STR-K: Engineering, Bachelor's
branch SSZ: Machine and Equipment Construction, 0 credits, compulsory

Programme B-STR-K: Engineering, Bachelor's
branch STG: Manufacturing Technology, 0 credits, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

9 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Introduction, U7 – vocabulary: electronics and ICT, comparison and contrasting

  2. U7 – giving explanations, rephrasing and using analogies

  3. U8 – speculating about past, modals with perfect infinitive

  4. U8 – vocabulary: security, indirect questions

  5. U8 – expressing degrees of agreement, revision – Review Unit

  6. U9 – vocabulary: smart or automated systems, making proposals and recommendations

  7. U9 – vocabulary: sensors and mechatronics, technical definitions

  8. U9 – vocabulary: contracts, stipulating conditions

  9. U10 – technical writing, compound nouns and adjectives

  10. U10 – vocabulary: NDT, problem-solving, revision – Review Unit

  11. U11 – vocabulary: power engineering, third conditional

  12. U11 – summarising, writing an abstract, presenting findings, revision

  13. credit test

Guided consultation

17 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Introduction, U7 – vocabulary: electronics and ICT, comparison and contrasting

  2. U7 – giving explanations, rephrasing and using analogies

  3. U8 – speculating about past, modals with perfect infinitive

  4. U8 – vocabulary: security, indirect questions

  5. U8 – expressing degrees of agreement, revision – Review Unit

  6. U9 – vocabulary: smart or automated systems, making proposals and recommendations

  7. U9 – vocabulary: sensors and mechatronics, technical definitions

  8. U9 – vocabulary: contracts, stipulating conditions

  9. U10 – technical writing, compound nouns and adjectives

  10. U10 – vocabulary: NDT, problem-solving, revision – Review Unit

  11. U11 – vocabulary: power engineering, third conditional

  12. U11 – summarising, writing an abstract, presenting findings, revision

  13. credit test