Technical English for Beginners

Let's start at this course right at the beginning - here are the basic phrases you need to survive in English.

Key Skills: Listening, Reading, Speaking

Knowledge Level: CEF A1 (Starter)

Let's refresh our alphabet.

Key Skills: Listening, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A1

Time to refresh numbers with this video lecture and the attached resource sheet.

Key Skills: Listening, reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A1

Let's learn the key vocabulary for giving and understanding email and web addresses, which is so important when speaking with our international partners.

Key Skills: Listening, Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A1

Here is an extra activity for numbers. You will listen to five telephone messages and write notes.

Key Skills: Listening, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A1

This lecture is a collection of resources designed to increase your vocabulary.

Print these sheets and keep them nearby for daily reference.

If there are words which are missing and you would like (with words and / or pictures), please let me know and I will create a new list for you!

Let's practice introducing ourselves, and meeting new people in this text-based lecture which comes complete with multiple exercises.

Key Skills: Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: A1

This is a text-based lecture.

Let's activate our vocabulary and learn words for typical technical objects. This lecture also gives us foundation skills in forming sentences and questions. This is our basis for all future activities.

Key Skills: Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A1

Let's learn the correct pronunciation for those objects we encountered in the previous lecture. Listen to the words, and say them out loud. Practice your pronunciation.

Key Skills: Listening, Speaking

Knowledge Level: CEF A1

This is a text-based lecture outlining the rules for plural nouns in English and includes two activities.

Key Skills: Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A1 - A2

Let's sharpen up our English by learning ways we can specify what object we want. For example: do we want a 6-volt battery? Is the cable 20 meters or 30 meters? What capacity is the tank? Let's expand our vocabulary and learn some grammar at the same time.

Key Skills: Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

Let's learn to say what we want. The context of this video lecture is ordering a meal, but the language can be used for any work-based situation.

Key Skills: Listening, Reading

Knowledge Level: CEF A1

Let's talk about controls - what are they? What do they do? Where are they? Let's also look at describing where something is located (which also means looking at the three most common prepositions: at, in and on).

Key Skills: Listening, Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

This text lecture is background information for upcoming exercises and activities. The document describes positions, and includes images to help define these positions.

Key Skills: Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A1

Finding our way around a building or town is an important life skill, so let's learn the language needed to understand directions in English.

Key Skills: Listening, Reading

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

Let's learn those handy words and phrases which let our conversation partner know we're understood what the have said.

Key Skills: Listening

Knowledge Level: CEF: A1 / A2

Let's talk about facilities: what is available in a business hotel, and where it is located. Facilities are features available in an organisation or hotel for the benefit of clients, employees or guests. Why do we need to know this? because it extends our vocabulary, allows us to talk about benefits and gives us more language tools for communicating with partners.

Key Skills: Listening, Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

Let's focus on dimensions and measurements activities through the worksheet, and on correct pronunciation through the audio recording. Please complete all the activities on the worksheet, and contact me via Private Message if you have any questions or problems.

Key Skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

What features does a product, building, position or place have? Let's sharpen up our English by learning how we can describe the features of a product. This is super useful as a a language foundation stone, as well as a building block for more complex communication.

Key Skills: Listening, Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

Let's learn instructions as well as descriptions for lines (horizontal, vertical etc), all bundled together in this video lecture. You will need your resource sheet to complete a listening activity, so please download and print it before starting the lecture.

Key Skills: Listening, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

Let's talk about tests... crash tests, strength tests, quality tests, product analyses... there is special language we use to describe tests:

• there is / there isn't / is there?
• there are / there aren't / are there?
• this is / this isn't /is this?
• these are / these aren't / are these?

This lecture focuses us on this grammar and applies it to general then work-based situations. There is a resource sheet attached to this lecture with activities for you to complete WHILE WATCHING the video lecture.

Key Skills: Listening, Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

What is happening at the moment? What are you doing?

Let's learn how to describe current events in this video lecture, which takes us through a situation happening in a metal factory.

Key Skills: Listening, Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A1 / A2

Let's learn how to describe a project - what steps we took (in the past) while refreshing our vocabulary for construction.

Key Skills: Reading, Writing

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

Let's get critical... safety is important in any workplace situation, and the language tools used to describe safety regulations are also important to learn. We do that in this lecture.

Key Skills: Listening, Reading

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

Time to say goodbye and a very big thank you for being a part of this course!

This lecture briefly outlines next steps - further English studies available with me on Udemy.

Time to apply your practical skills in Technical English to an office or administrative environment. This lecture builds your vocabulary for business writing and sets out some work-based tasks for you to complete. Contact me via Private Message for feedback on your writing tasks.

Key Skills: Writing, Reading

Knowledge Level: CEF A2

In this lecture, you will find a concise overview of the important aspects of the tenses and grammatical structures that have come up in our course. For each tense or structure you can download an individual reference sheet with information on when to use it and how, giving you the basic rules and some helpful example sentences.