Esp vocabulary Teaching at the Vocational Secondary School of Furniture Industry

2. Practical part
In this part of the thesis there is a comment on the hand-out (see Appendix) which reflects the theoretical part about the ESP vocabulary teaching. The hand-out called Furniture Industry Vocabulary in Use is intended for the pre-intermediate (B1) students of the vocational secondary school of furniture industry. The overall aims, hand-out design and its using are based on introduction in Basic Technical English, Teacher´s Book (1-9).

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   Target students
   

Furniture Industry Vocabulary in Use is aimed at students requiring English for practical use in technical fields who have pre-intermediate knowledge of general English. It regards the group of about 15 students aged 17-18 attending the third and forth grade of the vocational secondary school of furniture industry, the branch of supervisor of wood/furniture processing industry. They are timetabled for 2x45minutes of ESP English a month. It aims to develop students´ competence in processing the kind of technical information found in manuals and handbooks so that they will approach the reading and understanding of technical material with some confidence in the course of their vocational or occupational training. Furniture Industry Vocabulary in Use constitutes a teaching programme of some 20 lessons. It is logical that it might be used as a complement to a compulsory language teaching programme involving spoken technical English. It can be also ideal for the new school curriculum – RVP and ŠVP at the vocational secondary school. On the other hand, it is necessary to realize that students at technical schools are a mixed ability group, most of them have only a basic knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. They have problems with reading and it is difficult to make them speak.

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   Linquistic objectives
   

Furniture Industry Vocabulary in Use is a combination thematic/topic-based and semantic syllabus. The aim is to present technical material in the topics which are chosen as the most important for students specialized in the branch of wood/furniture industry. System of the practical exercises support the learning new vocabulary – it provides the better understanding the basic meaning of unfamiliar new words and using them in appropriate contexts and collocations. This additional teaching/learning material displays systematic vocabulary syllabus, collocations, and easy-to-understand definitions. New vocabulary is presented in context to stress the fact that the language is used to express relationship between information. Visual devices (tables, pictures and drawings) which are common in technical books are used with the aim to familiarize the learners with them and use these devices as a means of vocabulary presentation.

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