Energy Syllabus
SAMPLE SYLLABUS – ENERGY
WHO IS THIS SYLLABUS SUITABLE FOR?
This Energy syllabus is suitable for second language learners working in the energy industry, who want to improve their competence in the target language, using meaningful real-world contexts relevant to their professional working lives.
Actual course content and training format will be tailor-made after a process of consultation. The sample outline below gives an idea of what may be covered. The language levels are based on the Common European Framework.
SAMPLE COURSE OUTLINE
Level B2-C2 (Intermediate- Advanced Level)
1. Communicative/Thematic Content may include:
- Sustainable energy
- Alternative energy systems
- Energy companies – gas, power, carbon and oil
- Basic safety and Risk management in the industry
- Industry associations
- Different roles within the industry
- Current trends within the industry
- Government papers on energy spending
- Energy policy and efficiency projects
- Environmental Impact
- World energy resources
- World energy consumption
2. Key functional content
- Communication: with project managers, clients, government agencies and representatives etc
- Expressing ideas & opinions
- Making comparisons: e.g. energy trends in different countries
- Conversational strategies: turn-taking, interrupting, clarification and confirmation etc
- Register: formal vs. informal
- Networking and negotiation
- Negotiating
- Disagreement & Dissent
- Understanding and using nuance
- Assigning, accepting & denying blame
- Criticizing with tact
- Summarizing complex information
- Advising colleagues/ clients
3. Pronunciation
- Key sounds/phonemes
- Word and sentence stress & intonation
- Common Problems
4. Structural Content / Grammar
- Tenses: present & past (walk verb in its base form/ irregular verb walked)
- Perfect aspect: progressive & perfective (be + ing/ have + been past participle)
- Modal Verb structures: use of modals in discourse (I think I might…)
- Imperatives: the base form of the verb typically used to issue instructions
- Word order
- Building longer sentences
5. Non-thematic Lexis
- Complex prepositions: phrasal & mixed types (over & above)
- Linking words: (because, so, however, therefore, etc.)
- Word-building (prefix and suffix patterns)
- Common idioms and collocations
6. Cultural content
- Everyday conventions: greetings, time-keeping, making phone calls, meals, etc
- Body language and gestures
- National traditions/customs & culture
- ‘Do’s & Taboos’
- Intercultural Communication
- Business Culture
- Social Life