- •Focus on Language
- •Practice
- •Keep learning? Keep earning!
- •What are effective study habits?
- •Focus on Language
- •Practice
- •First degree courses in the uk
- •Focus on Language
- •Combined Science
- •Roleplay
- •Game “Why physics or math, etc.?”
- •“Starting your haunt of treasures”
- •1. How is a book organized? Put the words below in the correct order. Consult a dictionary if necessary.
- •Focus on language
- •Focus on language
- •Discuss
- •Technology and Libraries
- •A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.” Shelby Foote
- •Reading Report
- •Practice
- •It made it possible to …
- •It became possible/easy to …
- •It was a breakthrough in…
- •It found widespread application in…
- •Discuss
- •Focus on Language
- •Invention /discovery
- •1. Work with a partner. Name any accidental discoveries or inventions you have ever heard about. How did people benefit from them? Did they cause any problems?
- •Breakthroughs of the 20th century
- •Discuss
- •Do you think that scientific and technological achievements have really made the world a better place to live? Give reasons for your opinion. Focus on language
- •Practice
- •Practice
- •Double-edged sword
- •Comprehension check
- •Unit 3 Review
- •Rules of the Lab
- •Learning Objectives
- •In this module you will learn how to:
- •Comprehension check
- •3. Go back to the text and pay attention to the words in bold. Put them in the correct column that shows their function in the text.
- •Focus on language
- •Practice
- •Discuss
- •Global Warming: Facts vs. Myths myths:
- •Environmental Hazards of the Computer Revolution
- •Comprehension check
- •Make as many words as possible using the prefixes re-, dis-, over-, sub-,
- •Practice
- •The Advent of “Green” Computer Design
- •Is anything possible?
- •Into the 21st century
- •Into the Future
- •Learning Objectives
- •Science for the Twenty-First Century
- •As old as writing
- •Discuss
- •1. Read the text and give a title to it.// give it a title
- •Discuss
- •“The New Breed”
- •Introduction
- •Discuss
- •Go online. Find and read a short sci-fi story. Write a reading report. Make use of the Reading Report Form given in Module 3 Unit 2.
- •Learning Objectives
- •In this module you will learn how to:
- •Careers guidance questionnaire
- •Part-time Jobs vs. Holiday Jobs
- •The experience that is shaping the rest of my life
- •What can I do with a Science degree?
- •Interests:
Focus on language
Match each verb on the left with the noun/noun phrase on the right. Refer
back to the text if necessary.
to comprise |
knowledge |
to lay |
the first atlas of stars |
to measure |
universal knowledge |
to establish |
the city |
to discover |
the length of solar year |
to calculate |
the rules of geometry |
to promote |
scholars and humanists |
to organise |
the foundations |
to conquer |
manuscripts |
to inspire |
rationality, tolerance, understanding |
to share |
the diameter |
Read the following sentence from the text. Which part of it is emphasized?
It was at the library that Archimedes invented the screw-shaped water pump that is still in use today.
Emphasizing: cleft sentences
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Practice
1. Rewrite these sentences to emphasize the words in italics:
The Web allows you to access information through a browser.
Professional journals contain many graphs and charts but a few exciting
Periodicals are usually published on a quarterly basis.
I like our professor’s sense of humour.
The language of a scholarly language uses specialized vocabulary of the discipline.
Aristarchus was the first person to state that the earth revolves around the
sun.
2. Change these sentences as shown in the example:
Example: He’s not studying chemistry, he’s studying biology.
It’s not chemistry he’s studying, it is biology.
Newspapers provide articles each day about current events, magazines don’t do it.
An encyclopedia is usually expensive, but not a dictionary.
Kate is a real bookworm, but her brother Tim hardly reads anything except for comics and thrillers.
I’m not looking for a lot of information on the topic, I’m trying to find historical information.
Anthony was excluded from the college for cheating in exam, not Jack.
I think you need computer maintenance manual; it’s absolutely useless reading a textbook.