Scientific and business english
an oral exam (internship presentation), completion of a written task, TOEIC exam 800+
The courses are designed to improve English skills and to teach linguistic autonomy in order to prepare students to work with technical and scientific English in an international and intercultural context. They are also meant to help students pass the TOEIC exam required by the CTI in order to obtain the ChemistryParisTech engineering diploma.
The classroom courses are complemented by “e-learning” on the Moodle platform, by “learning by doing” and by self-learning in the multimedia classroom.
Students of lower levels can also benefit from personalized help and various TOEIC preparation tools crafted to their needs.
English courses are to:
– train for the International English Test (TOEIC),
– develop analytical skills and synthetic processing of scientific, technical and cognitively demanding documents in English, whether written, audio or video,
– practice writing of high quality technical, professional or scientific texts in English,
– discuss cultural topics of at least one English-speaking country and to provide a good knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon environment in order to grasp the psycholinguistic nuances of English (innuendo, cultural allusions),
– develop oral communication through presentations followed by questions, internship presentations, job interview simulations and debates.
The student will increase his/her in-depth knowledge of grammar, thematic and scientific vocabulary by communicating flawlessly in both written and oral business English in a multicultural company.
The student will report on his/her experience of the international internship and will compare cultural similarities and differences and will self-assess his/her ability to adapt to international contexts.
The student will give a 30 minute-long without notes presentation on his/her internship (with cv).
The student will be able to participate in a debate on an everyday life, technical or scientific subject.
The student will easily answer factual questions on a given subject.
The student will be able to understand, analyse and synthesize scientific, technical and cognitively demanding documents in English, either written, audio or video.
The student will be skilled at using contextual, grammatical and lexical clues to infer an attitude, a mood, intentions and anticipate the next steps.
The student will understand the structure of the TOEIC exam and will develop a personal strategy to maximize his/her exam score.
Teaching language: EN
Documents:
audio and video documents, factual documents
Link: https://coursenligne.chimie-paristech.fr/course/view.php?id=333
