TEMARIOS

UNIT 1 In Port

1.    Communication Skills: Reading and Listening (2 HOURS PLATFORM PRACTICE)

·         -nouns and verbs used to describe the buildings, areas, machines and work processes in a harbour        area

·         use of nouns and verbs in the Present Simple tense to describe port operations

      UNIT 2 Welcome to a Modern Port

1.    Communication Skills: Reading and Listening (2 HOURS PLATFORM PRACTICE)

·         uses nouns, verbs and adjectives to describe the different areas, equipment, operations and                   companies operating within a port area

·         Grammar, Nouns: Plural forms and compounds

·         Grammar, Verbs: The Present Simple tense and the Past Simple tense, active and passive voice         uses nouns, verbs and adjectives to describe the different areas, equipment, special vessels,                  operations and companies operating within a port area

·         Grammar, Nouns: Plural forms and compounds understands the role of different companies                operating in a port environment

     UNIT 3 Loading the MS Marina

1.    Communication Skills: Reading and Listening  - -- uses the structures to + infinitive and for + -ing       to explain the equipment used for specific tasks (2 HOURS PLATFORM PRACTICE)

·         uses appropriate verbs to explain mechanical operations (including common multi-word verbs              such as switch on, start up, close down etc)

·         understands the formation of questions and orders in radio Communications

·         gives answers to the questions in radio communication in writing

UNIT 4 The Ship

1.    Communication Skills: Reading and Listening } (2 HOURS PLATFORM PRACTICE)

     recognizes the general arrangement plan of a vessel; the cargo holds, the main equipment on deck      and on the superstructure, the decks and compartments, the engine room etc.

·         recognizes vessel specifications

      identifies places, equipment, crew members and positions of items on board

·         labels a diagram showing places on a vessel

UNIT 5 Leaving Port

Communication Skills: Reading and Listening (2 HOURS PLATFORM PRACTICE)

     - understands routine operations on a vessel when leaving port

     - understands descriptions of a vessel's manoeuvring data

     - understands the use the imperative form for giving directions

     - understands orders given when a vessel is casting off

     - understands helm orders

     - follows a spoken description of a ship's route

     - follows description of weather conditions during a voyage

     -  uses expressions of communication on the navigation bridge when a vessel is leaving port


UNIT 6 In the Fairway

Communication Skills: Reading and Listening (2 HOURS PLATFORM PRACTICE)

     - follows a spoken description of a ship's route

     - follows descriptions of ship's manoeuvring data

     - follows descriptions of ship's position

     - follows description of weather conditions during a voyage

     - follows SMCP instructions, questions and answers

     - understands description of vessel's route and manoeuvring data

     - uses SMCP message types; instructions, questions and answers regarding                                              vessel's maneuvering data

UNIT 7 The Weather
Communication Skills: Reading and Listening 0,1 0,3 (2 HOURS PLATFORM PRACTICE)

      Vocabulary:

     - understands the use of various verbs and adjectives to describe a wide                                  range of weather patterns

     - understands the use of engine orders in severe weather conditions

     - understands the use of various verbs, nouns and adjectives to describe ship's movements and              stability in different circumstances

                        

      Vocabulary:

     
     - uses expressions describing ship's movements

      -uses engine orders needed in severe weather conditions

      -uses various adjectives, verbs and nouns describing ship's movements and sea conditions

      Vocabulary: answers to SMCP messages

      Grammar: uses the Present Perfect tense of regular and irregular verb

       - understands the use of the Beaufort Scale to describe wind speeds

UNIT 8 Distress At Sea

Communication Skills: Reading and Listening  (2 HOURS PLATFORM PRACTICE)

                        
Vocabulary:

    - understands radio communication between the vessel in distress,

     vessels in the vicinity and a rescue centre in a distress situation

Grammar:

    - understands the use of the Past Simple tense when reporting events from a past voyage

                        
Vocabulary:

    - uses expressions to describe a distress situation of a past voyage

   - listening comprehension on a description of a distress situation of a past voyage

  - uses expressions to describe a distress situation of a past voyage

  - understands how a mayday message is built up (a distress message, acknowledgment by radio telephone, assistance information message)

  - identifies correct formation of a distress message

 - identifies a correct formation of an answer to a distress message                                           (acknowledgment and assistance information message)

 - writes down numerical and other information of a distress message and an acknowledgment by radio telephone

 - understands the use and knows the correct spelling of phonetic alphabet when giving call-signs, spelling a word or individual letters

 - understands and knows the correct spelling of some common abbreviations spoken as initial letters

- understands and knows the correct spelling of some common abbreviations spoken as words

  - understands the use and correct pronunciation of numbers and figures in radio communication

  
Listening Comprehension

 - writes down call signs and MMSI numbers of vessels

 - notes ships' call signs correctly from speech

                        
Communication Skills: Reading

  - understands various expressions regarding, for example, depth, distance, temperature and date and time, used in radio communication