ENGLISH CRASH COURSE

VAMK'S GOT TALENT 2014

WHY ARE WE HERE?

WHAT DO YOU NEED?

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW

ABC

• Eij, bii, cii, dii, ii, eff, dji,
• eidj, ai, djei, kei, ell, emm, enn
• Ou, pii, kjuu, ar, ess, tii, juu
• Vii, double juu, eks, oai, zed

V VS. W

THE SH-SOUND

UNIVERSITY U

TH-SOUND

• θ as in thin, thief, birthday
• ð as in there, this, worthy
• What about "the"

A, E, I

TASK: SPELL OUT THE FOLLOWING NAME TO YOUR NEIGHBOR

SWITCH TURNS

SPELL IT OUT

NOW THE WORDS

WORDLISTS YOU NEED

• The General Service Wordlist (2000 words)
• Coxhead's Academic Wordlist (570 words)
• Specialist wordlists, terminology of your field
• Outdated words, overly difficult words
• 80 %, 15 %, 5 %, 0 %

HERE ARE THE AUDIT WORDS

VAMK

• Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
• UAS = University of Applied Sciences
• HEI = Higher Education Institution
• Polytechnic reform
• Remember "the"

QUALITY

• Quality management
• Quality assurance
• Quality operations
• Quality system
• Quality Workgroup, Quality Manager, Quality Co-ordinator

TEACHING, EDUCATION

• Student, teacher or trainer, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer
• Curriculum, curricula (plural)
• Learning goal, ECTS-credits, thesis, theses (plural)
• Course feedback/study unit feedback
• Study unit, study module

TEACHING, EDUCATION

• Competence based learning
• Skills, basic skills
• Student centered learning
• Goal-setting, lecturer, practical training, supervisor
• Workload, the Student Radar, Director of Education, Educational Planner

UNITS

• School of Business
• School of Health Care and Social Services
• School of Technology
• Run by: Director of Unit

RDI = RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION

• RDI work
• RDI credits
• RDI management
• RDI operations
• Projects and project ideas

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

• Hotel and Restaurant Business
• Nursing
• Information Technology
• Mechanical Engineering
• Business Economics

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

• Information Technology
• Energy and Environmental Engineering
• International Business
• Run by: Head of Degree Programme
• Degree programme meetings

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

• Tourism
• Construction and Civil Engineering
• Social Services
• Electrical Engineering and Automation
• Information Processing

VAMK'S ORGANISATION

• Staff member, staff, stakeholders
• Student Union
• Management Group, Rector/CEO
• General meeting of the shareholders
• Board (external, internal)

STUDIES

• Stream, stream studies
• Practical training
• Inclusive
• Exchange student
• Employability, graduate

STUDIES

• Basic studies, general competencies, basic skills
• Core studies, professional studies
• Advanced professional studies
• Degree regulations, degree targets
• Optional studies, working life

ASSESSMENT

• Assessment/evaluation/audit
• To assess, to evaluate, to audit
• Assessment method, audit target, development portfolio
• Course feedback/study unit feedback
• Reviews (board, management, degre programme)

OPERATIONS

• Operating system
• Operations plan, planner and planning
• Operations management
• Co-operation, co-operation negotiations
• Processes, process descriptions, indicator, measures

MOTIVATION

ENGLISH CRASH COURSE

PUZZLE PIECES

THE SHEIT-PEOPLE

CAPITAL LETTERS

• Languages, countries, countrymen or women
• Titles, proper names
• Hollidays, days of the week, months
• I

SHEIT-PEOPLE CONTINUED

• I eat, you eat, he/she/it eats, we eat, they eat, you eat
• I miss, you miss, he/she/it misses, we miss, they miss, you miss
• I do, you do, he/she/it does, we do, they do, you do
• I was, you were, he/she/it was, we were, they were, you were
• She does eat, Does she eat?

WHOSE IS IT?

• Hanna's, the university's, Hannes' or Hannes's
• The student's, the students'
• Its vs it's
• Avoid abbreviations like it's in professional texts

POSITIVE, SHORT SENTENCES

NUMBERS

THE, THE, A AND AN

• When the following word starts with a vowel sound (a, e, i, etc.)
• A degree programme, an education, BUT a university
• The degree programme, the education, the university
• The is the most commonly left out word for Finnish speakers

THE MEETING