Writing for

Engineering

Week 2
Session 5
SUMMARY

1
Learning Outcomes
Session 5
By the end of this session, students will be able to give a group
oral presentation about article 1 by using Cornell Note-taking
form to identify main ideas from text.
• Review a number of verb tenses in context.
• Identify and use active and passive forms.
• Identify and use key steps while using the
Cornell´s note taking method
Let’s analyse this paragraph:

1. Is the paragraph in present or past?

2. Which present tenses can you recognise?
Choose the correct verb form in each of the
following:
1. In this process, the mixture is heated / is heating to 120ºC.

2. Once the salts are dissolving / have dissolved, the heat is reduced.

3. Several people have survived / are surviving the earthquake and are
treating / are being treated in hospital at the moment.
Rotational moulding.

Source : Plastic Mouldings Rotational Moulding Process (2014) Retrieved March 14 th

th 2017

from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoJ2hE0SIQ
Source: Jacques, C (2011) Technical English 3. Workbook. UK. Pearson.
 HANDOUT

Source: Jacques, C (2011) Technical English 3. Workbook. UK. Pearson.

Writing for
Engineering

Week 3
SESSION 7
SUMMARY

10
Learning Outcomes
Session 7
By the end of this session, students will be able to
write coherent sentences using appropriate
connectors.

• Identify past tense forms in context.

• Complete sentences using a variety of past forms.
• Identify basic conjunctions and connectors for
academic writing.
• Complete sentences using connectors in context.
Source: Brieger, N & Pohl, A. (2007) Technical English Vocabulary
and Drammar . Summertown Publishing
Uses: Match the uses of the different past tenses.
An activity which is a
time frame for another
PAST SIMPLE
activity

An activity that
PAST happened earlier than
CONTINUOUS another activity in the
past.

PAST PERFECT An activity in a definite

time in the past.
Activity: Make past tenses questions and answers
with the prompts given

Source: Brieger, N & Pohl, A. (2007) Technical English Vocabulary

and Drammar . Summertown Publishing
Complete the following report of an accident which happened in
a factory with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

Handout
Source: Brieger, N & Pohl, A. (2007) Technical English Vocabulary
and Drammar . Summertown Publishing