Aircraft Technical English
Online professional training
If you are an airplane mechanic, maintenance engineer, or working in aircraft production, this course will help you learn and improve your specialised technical English.
What will I learn?
The 4 modules with 20 Lessons covering over 150 Topics will help you learn Key Vocabulary for :
- Airplane manufacturing and assembly
- Work Orders for Ground Maintenance
- Quality checks, issues and remedial action
- Paperwork and administration
- Aircraft Systems descriptions
and …
- Basic grammar needed to understand technical documents
- Workplace Dialogues to help you understand spoken English
- A comprehensive glossary of over 800 key terms
Why is this training unique?
You will study specialised language from …
- Aircraft manuals, Job Cards and technical documents with systems descriptions and instructions for the Assembly Line, the Flightline and Ground Maintenance.
- Specific workplace exchanges : talking about time, deadlines, location and movement, all with examples from the workplace.
- Recorded dialogues that focus on interactions between colleagues, and/or reponses to questions and requests raised by customers.
- Practical English grammar with examples from the Assembly/Flightline/Maintenance environment (including 12 short video explanations).
How will I learn?
Each of 150 Topics presents a selection of specialized vocabulary with
- Recordings of all the Topics (with British and American speakers)
- Explanations of the terms in simple English
- Translations into French, Spanish and German
- Quizzes for each Topic to help you learn and check your progress.
- On completion of the Topics and Quizzes, a Certificate of Achievement is awarded.
What level are the course materials?
- The level of difficulty will depend on your work background and experience, as well as your knowledge of general English.
- The course is designed to enable a wide range of users to benefit from the materials by offering choices in the way they are approached.
- Elementary learners can focus on the written text and use the available translations to develop your knowledge of specialised vocabulary.
- Intermediate learners, you can listen to dialogues without reading the text. This will improve your ability to understand spoken technical language.
- The quizzes for each topic have different levels of difficulty to suit your knowledge. You can choose the level of help you need to complete the task, and repeat them as many times as you like. You can also adapt the course to your needs and preferences by following your own route through the modules and topics.
What else is included ?
Additional “Extras” include …
Exercises for elementary learners focusing on less technical language.
Language for more advanced learners for use in meetings and making presentations on technical subjects.
Progress Tests are available at the end of each course to check your knowledge and Certificates attest to you having completed the Modules, the Topics and the associated Quizzes.
Ready for take-off ?
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