Aircraft Technical English
On-line professional training
If you are an airplane mechanic, maintenance engineer, or working in aircraft production, this comprehensive online course will help you learn and improve your specialised technical English.
What will I learn?
This course will help you learn Key Vocabulary for :
- Airplane manufacturing and assembly
- Ground maintenance
- Quality checks, issues and remedial action
- Paperwork and administration
- Aircraft Systems descriptions
- Work Orders and instructions for common tasks
as well as …
- Basic grammar needed to understand technical documents
- Workplace Dialogues to help you understand spoken English
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What vocabulary will you learn in the 20 Topics?
- Manufacturing and maintenance
- 20 Topics with around 200 key words
- Quality checks, problems and corrective actions
- 10 Topics with around 120 key words
- Administrative actions and specific paperwork
- 8 Topics with around 100 key words
- Basic grammar summaries with examples from the Assembly/Flightline environment
- 20 Topics including 12 short video explanations (with subtitles)
What makes this course so efficient?
Real language from a real working environment !
Each Topic 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.
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- Extracts from Job Cards detailing work orders for the Assembly Line and Flightline.
- 12 Topics
- Descriptions of aircraft systems (fuel, hydraulics etc) with specific vocabulary.
- 8 Topics
- Short recorded dialogues that focus on interactions between colleagues, and/or reponses to questions and requests raised by customers.
- 20 Topics
- Specific language needed for talking about time, deadlines, location and movement, all with examples from the workplace.
- 6 Topics
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 with or without reading the text. This will improve your ability to understand spoken technical language at normal speed.
- The quizzes for each topic have different levels of difficulty to suit different levels of 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 a route through the lessons. If you work in Quality Control, you can follow the ‘Quality vocabulary’ Topics. Those working in Maintenance can focus on the ‘Job Cards’ Topics, etc.
What else is included ?
- Additional materials for elementary to more advanced levels include Extras , Progress Tests at regular intervals, and Certificates to attest your achievements.
- The ‘Extras’ include
- help with pronunciation
- exercises for elementary learners focusing on less technical but very common language
- language for more advanced learners for use in more formal meetings and making presentations on technical subjects.
- The Progress Tests are at the end of each course to check your knowledge
- Certificates attest to you having completed the course.
- The ‘Extras’ include