Academic year/semester: 2024/25/2

ECTS Credits: 6

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 0
Seminarium:0
Practice: 0
Laboratory: 3
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: B2 level of English

Course Leader: Márta Anna Salamon

Faculty: Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 1146 Budapest, Thököly út 74.

Course Description:
The aim of the course is to develop the competence of students in the English terminology of architecture and technology in order to help them fit in a globalized world in the course of their work. Vocabulary development tasks embedded in the language topics, reading and listening comprehension, and speaking skills all play an important role during the course. The main topics are made interesting by processing short articles and videos, sometimes highlighting the use of certain linguistic phenomena, such as certain recurring word relationships, the role of different tenses or even the passive structure.

Competences:
use of technical knowledge in English

Topics:
1. week: Properties and Shapes; Article: „A Colourful Home Renovation” ; TED: „Claim your Manspace”
2. week: Materials and measurement; Article: ”3D Printed House”; TED: „Why doesn’t the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over?”
3. week: The building site; Article: „Eco-friendly Homes of the Future”; TED: „Eco-friendly Drywall”
4. week: Structure; Article: „Cork House”; TED: „The Hidden ways stairs shape your life”, Review
5. week: The building process 1; Article: „Social Housing in Norwich”; TED: A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect”,
6. week: Test 1
7. week: The Building Process 2.; Article: „Fossil-fuel free buildings”; TED: „Magical houses, made of bamboo”
8. week: Inventions; TED: „Inventing is the easy part”
9. week: Heritage ; Article: „Listed Buildings in danger”; TED: „ Architectural secrets of the World’s ancient wonders”, Treasure hunt in Zugló
10. week: Review
11. week: Students’ project presentations
12. week: Test 2
13. week: Re-sits

Assessment: 2 written final tests from the semester material and a presentation based on individual project work.

Exam Types:

Test Exam

Mid Term Exam

Compulsory bibliography: none

Recommended bibliography: none

Additional bibliography: none

Additional Information: none