前言

中国加入WTO，北京奥运会和上海世博会的成功举办，标志着中国更加开放，与外部世界的联系更加密切。建筑业是我国最早走出去的行业之一，建筑市场不断地在向国外拓展，国外公司也不断进入国内建筑市场，国际监理公司也因国际项目等原因介入国内工程项目的管理。建筑市场国际化离我们已不遥远。然而，我们却面临着巨大挑战：一方面，国外建筑企业进入国内市场，带来全新的管理模式，需要我们去适应；另一方面，国内建筑企业要进入国际市场，需要熟悉国外的管理方法、施工规范，需要懂外语的专业技术人员，但语言却成了相互沟通的较大障碍。语言与专业知识脱节十分突出，懂语言的不懂工程，懂工程的不懂语言，严重制约了建筑业的对外发展。为此，作者根据几年来的教学和工程实践精心编写了《建筑英语口语》这本教材，以期能有效提高建筑专业学生的英语口语水平，解决涉外建筑从业人员的语言障碍，为推进中国建筑行业的国际化进程作出贡献。

作为高职高专土建专业系列教材之一，《建筑英语口语》一书的编写遵循"实用为主，够用为度，以应用为目的"的指导原则，采用基于工作过程模块化的内容体系。全书共20个模块，内容涉及建筑专业和课程、建筑求职面试、建筑相关职业、建筑施工企业、建筑物类型、建筑材料、建筑机械、建筑图纸、建筑招投标、建筑合同、建筑法规、建筑试验、建筑测量、施工计划、施工检查、建筑安装、建筑装饰、建筑造价、工程索赔、工程验收等。每个模块又包括学习目标、专业词汇、情景对话、注释、必学句型、练习和补充材料7个部分。为方便读者学习和查阅，书后附有练习答案、情景对话问题答案及中文译文、词汇表和参考文献。

本书可作为各类成教、大专、高职、中专的建筑类相关专业的英语口语教材使用，也可供涉外建筑施工和管理人员、从事建筑出国劳务、工程承包的各类人员自学使用。

限于作者的语言水平和专业知识，加之时间仓促，书中不足乃至错误之处在所难免，恳请读者不吝指正，作者在此预致谢意。

Marked by events of the entry of WTO, the successful holding of Beijing Olympic Games and Shanghai World Expo,Chinais contacting with the outside world more closely. As one of the first industries inChinato go abroad, the construction industry continually develops the overseas market. Meanwhile, more and more foreign companies have been entering the domestic construction market; the international supervision companies begin to intervene domestic project management for some international projects. The internationalization of the construction market is not far away from us. However, we are faced with great challenges: on the one hand, by accessing into China`s market, the foreign construction enterprises will bring about some new management modes, to which we have to adapt; on the other hand, to enter into the international market, the domestic construction enterprises need to be familiar with internationalized management methods and construction norms, need professional and technical personnel with a good command of foreign languages. In either of the above cases, the language is the greatest obstacle to communicate with each other. The gap of language and professional knowledge is very outstanding. People, who speaks the foreign language well, cannot understand the engineering project; and people, who understands the engineering project well, cannot speak the foreign language. Therefore, based on years of teaching and engineering practices, we have carefully authored the textbook Oral English of Architecture, with the purpose of improving the spoken English of architectural students, solving the language barriers of the foreign construction practioners, and making contributions to the internalization ofChina`s construction industry.

As one of the series of higher vocational textbooks for architectural majors, the book is compiled under the guidance of practicality, and the content system is modularized on the basis of construction process. The whole book consists of 20 modules, involving architectural majors and courses, architectural job interview, architectural workers, construction enterprises, kinds of buildings, building materials, building machinery, architectural drawings, construction tendering, construction contract, construction laws and regulations, construction testing, construction surveys, construction plan, construction inspection, building installation, building decoration, building cost, claims and acceptance of construction works. In each of these modules, there are seven parts, which are learning objectives, special terms, situational conversations, notes, useful sentences, exercises and supplementary materials. To further facilitate the readers, appendixes of key to the exercises, answers to questions of the situational conversations, the Chinese translation of the situational conversations, glossary and references are attached in the end of the book.

The book can be used not only as the oral English textbooks for architectural students of various types of secondary and higher vocational as well as adult schools or colleges, but also as the selfstudy materials for constructors and managerial personnel in construction enterprises involving foreignness.

Due to the limits of the authors` language level and professional knowledge, as well as the lack of enough time, inadequacies and even errors can hardly be avoided in this book. Therefore, it is hoped that the readers will kindly point out our errors, and here we the authors express our thanks in anticipation.

精彩书摘

建筑求职面试

In this module, learners should：

● know the Chinese and English names of architectural schools and institutes.

● master skills of architectural job interview.

在本模块内, 学习者应该能：

● 了解建筑院校及研究机构的中英文名称。

● 掌握建筑求职面试的技巧。

Institute of Architectural Engineering建筑工程学院

Institute of Civil Engineering土木工程学院

Vocational College of Architectural Engineering建筑工程职业学院

Technical College of Construction建筑技术学院

Workers and Staff College of Construction建筑职工大学

Secondary Construction School for Workers and Staff建筑职工中专

School of Architectural Engineering建筑工程学校

Technical School of Building Installation建筑安装技工学校

School of Urban and Rural Construction城乡建设学校

Architectural University of Science &Technology建筑科技大学

Academy of Building Research建筑科学研究院

Architectural Design and Research Institute建筑设计研究院

Institute of Architectural Designing建筑设计院

National Institute of Building Science国家建筑科学研究所

Research Institute of Housing Construction房屋建筑研究所

Research Institute of Ecological Buildings生态建筑研究院

Research Institute of Energysaving Buildings节能建筑研究院

Research Institute of Intelligent Buildings智能建筑研究院

college多指大学内的学院(part of a university)或分科学院(a school or an institution providing specialized courses)；university主要指综合大学(comprehensive), 可授予学位 (having authority to award bachelors and higher degrees), 通常配有研究设施 (usually having research facilities)；academy指研究专门学术的学校 (a school for training in a particular skill or profession)。

Manager： Good morning! Please sit down!

Zhang Jie： Good morning, sir. Thank you.

Manager： First, Id like to enquire about your architectural qualifications. Can you tell me something about that?

Zhang Jie： OK. As a fiveyear vocational student majoring in Civil Engineering, I am due to graduate in July from the City Vocational College of Jiangsu. In a span of five years, I have gained a lot. In terms of English level, I got certificates of PRETCOA, PETS3, and CET4. Besides, I have obtained vocational certificates of cost engineer, construction engineer.

Manager： Pretty good. Will you please show them to me now?

Zhang Jie： Certainly.That is just what I think. Here you are.

Manager： Let me read it. Our groupcorporation is one of Chinas top 100 and the worlds top 500 construction companies. The current growth and expansion of business in both domestic and international markets requires us to enlarge the team of engineering and technical personnel. What would you like to take up as career in the posts?

Zhang Jie： A civil engineer.

Manager： Why do you apply for the post in our company?

Zhang Jie： First, the civil engineer is my ideal job, and it makes what I have learnt in college useful. Second, your company is located very near my home, so it would be very convenient for me to work here.Manager： Er, I see. Among the qualities we are looking for are the technical abilities and practical skills. A lot of university graduates have paper qualifications — but can they deliver? What would you say to that?

Zhang Jie： Well, as engineering students of higher vocational colleges, in the first three years, we have been working mainly on theoretical aspects so that we can