COURSE OUTLINE

Subject : Reading 1
Pre-requisite :-
Credit :2
Department : Civil Engineering 1E
Semester : Odd
Lecturer : Poppy Eki Arianti (081.803.834.079)

Course Description
Reading 1 is one of English skill courses in ESP program. The course is offered to the first
semester students of all departments. This course is intended to help the students to
comprehend their reading text, to master in technical terms related to the text, and to enrich
their vocabulary related to their discipline.

Standard Competence
By the end of the semester, the students are able to comprehend various English texts. The
competence is revealed by the students achievement in their daily exercises and tests.

Contents:
Reading materials are taken from English for Civil Engineering, Reading Power, and etc.

Classroom Activities
The class activities will be brief explanation of the topics (lecturing), discussions, and written
exercises.
Evaluation
1. Class attendance : 25%
2. Assignments : 25%
3. Midterm test : 25%
4. Final test : 25%
Meeting Schedule
Meeting Topics
1 Introduction to ESP-Reading 1
2 How to Read Faster
How to Think in English
3 Reading Comprehension Skills:
Previewing and Predicting:
Using pictures to predict
Guess what will happen next
Predicting the next idea
 4 Scanning
5 Guessing Word Meanings
6 Quiz 1
7 Topics:
Finding the Topic
Working with Topics
Thinking of the Topic
8 Midterm Test
9 Topics of Conversations
10 Topics of Paragraphs
11 Main Ideas
12 Finding the Pattern of Organization
13 Quiz 2
14 Engineering
History of the Civil Engineering
15 The Civil Engineer
Several Sub-Discipline of Civil Engineering
16 Final test

References:

Mikulecky, Beatrice S and Linda Jeffries. 1986. Reading Power. USA: Addison-Wesley
Publishing Company, Inc.

Elfana, Riza, et al. 2011. English for Civil Engineering. Malang: UMM Press.

And other related materials.