The project encompasses the organisation and teaching specialist English and German courses for the Lower Silesian Chamber of Architects.

Ordering party: Lower Silesian Chamber of Architects

Project coordinator for the Lower Silesian Chamber of Architects : Agnieszka Osowicz, MSc Eng.

Contractor: Department of Foreign Languages of WUST

Project coordinator for the Department of Foreign Languages of WUST: Anna Kania, M.A.

Project financing: Lower Silesian Chamber of Architects

Project objective:

The objective of the project encompasses a cycle of English and Spanish courses teaching specialist language to meet the needs of the Lower Silesian Chamber of Architects members. The courses will allow to improve communication skills using specialist vocabulary, present a professional profile, and interpret specialist literature and documentation.

The project goal is pursued by organising and teaching:

English courses encompassing

• vocabulary building in the field of architecture,
• developing communication skills (topics are related to architecture),
• developing presentation skills and discussing issues related to a broadly defined architectural industry,
• developing reading comprehension skills and interpretation of professional literature and documentation,
• enriching intercultural knowledge.

Spanish course encompassing

• continuation of studying elementary vocabulary and grammar related to everyday communication and essential intercultural issues,
• training communicative language skills: oral and reading comprehension, speaking, writing and reading.

Project duration - stage 11: 21 March 2025- 27 June 2025

Teachers: English and Spanish teachers employed at the Department of Foreign Languages of WUST

• Conversation and specialist lexical resource course, English level B2/C1 - Magdalena Hołowko, M.A.
• Conversation and specialist lexical resource course, Spanish level A2 – Joanna Szemet, M.A.

Where: online using Zoom or MS Teams

Language placement for course participants: placement test or continuation of work after the previous project stages.

Stage 11 of the project encompasses:

Teaching specialist English and Spanish courses for the members of the Lower Silesian Chamber of Architects who declared their intention to participate or continue their participation in the online specialist language courses at B2/C1 level of English and A2 level of Spanish.

Programme of the courses:

B2/C1 English language course

Course contents:

• Work-related issues.
• Materials (including eco- friendly materials).
• Trends in living.
• New or controversial approaches in design.
• Traditional and new materials, their applications and properties.
• Types of buildings and other constructions designed by architects.
• What inspires architects? (trends, styles, iconic constructions, aesthetics etc.).
• What’s new in architecture and where are we heading?
• Talking to clients and officials (oral and written communication).

+ grammar relevant to the topics listed above

Materials:

1. Authentic materials.
2. Teachers’ own materials.

Spanish A2

Course contents:

• Expressing preferences, tastes, likes. Modal verbs.
• Basic activities, describing a typical day, giving information about the surrounding world.
• Improving the knowledge of conjugation of regular, irregular, reflexive verbs, with inflections in the present tense.
• Lexical range: (weather, clothes, body parts, booking a hotel, getting around a town or city, shopping, etc).
• Description of a person, appearance, description of objects, surroundings.
• Expressing the future - grammatical constructions like: ir+a+ infinitivo.
• Expressing a continuous present action – the construction estar + gerundio.
• Expressing actions in the past tense - preterito perfecto de indicativo.
• Simple past tense - preterito indefinido.
• Elements of culture.
• Vocabulary related to architecture.

Materials:

1. Authentic materials.
2. Teachers’ own materials.