MARITIME UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANTA

FACULTY OF NAVAL ELECTROMECHANICS

DEPARTMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

MARITIME ENGLISH

Student’s Coursebook (I-st year, 2-nd term)

Mircea GEORGESCU
 CONTENTS

UNIT 1. TYPES OF VESSELS

Objectives of Unit 1
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Transportation
1.3 Assistance and service
1.4 Relative adverbs
Self-assessment test
Progress test
Answers to self-assessment test
Bibliography/Webography
UNIT 2. TYPES OF VESSELS: TASKS
Objectives of Unit 2
2.1 Idioms
2.2 Purpose and design
Self-assessment test
Progress test
Answers to self-assessment test
Bibliography/Webography
UNIT 3. GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PLAN
Objectives of Unit 3
3.1 Spaces and separations
3.2 The upper deck
Self-assessment test
Progress test
Answers to self-assessment test
Bibliography/Webography
UNIT 4. GENERAL ARRANGEMENT PLAN: TASKS
Objectives of Unit 4
4.1 Idioms
4.2 Spaces and separations
4.3 Sentence-ending prepositions
Self-assessment test
Progress test
Answers to self-assessment test
Bibliography/Webography
UNIT 5. SHIP MEASUREMENT
Objectives of Unit 5
5.1 Ship characteristics
5.2 Dimensions
5.3 Binomials
Self-assessment test
Progress test
Answers to self-assessment test
Bibliography/Webography
UNIT 6. SHIP MEASUREMENT: TASKS
Objectives of Unit 6
6.1 Idioms
6.2 Matching
6.3 Idioms connected with problematic situations
Self-assessment test
Progress test
Answers to self-assessment test
Bibliography/Webography
UNIT 7. SHIPBUILDING
Objectives of Unit 7
7.1 Classification
7.2 Building the ship
7.3 Propellers
7.4 Rudders
7.5 Stability
Self-assessment test
Progress test
Answers to self-assessment test
Bibliography/Webography
UNIT 8. SHIPBUILDING: TASKS
Objectives of Unit 8
8.1 Idioms
8.2 Classification
8.3 Propellers: applied terminology, advantages and disadvantages
8.4 Survey report
Self-assessment test
Progress test
Answers to self-assessment test
Bibliography/Webography
 Preface

This course is designed for 1st year students (2nd term) at the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering in Constanta Maritime University. The course aims to meet the basic
communication requirements as laid down in the relevant sections of the IMO International
Convention on Standards for Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers
(STCW), 1978/95.
The course units cover language work specific to the topic of each unit and assumes
an intermediate knowledge of English.
The topics cover the essentials a ship officer in a multilingual crew needs to master in
order to successfully meet the communication requirements at sea and in ports. The course
lays emphasis on ship organization and ship types. In order to assist maritime students, the
course aims on the one hand to develop within maritime related topics, speaking, listening,
and writing skills and on the other hand to build up the students’ vocabulary of maritime
terms and expressions.
At the end of the course the students use adequately present and future forms, use
words and phrases for identifying ships and their purpose.