- •1 Listen to the dialogues and simultaneously look through them marking their order. Where could they take place?
- •In the library
- •International cooperation
- •2 Renderà the text without trying to learn it by heart. Are you happy with the result of your rendering?
- •3 There's a way for you to cope with rendering easily. Read Appendix b and find out how simple it is to retell a text if you base your retelling on its Cognitive Map.
- •Vice-Rector for Hospitals and Clinics Vice-Rector for Administrative Affairs Vice-Rector for Science Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Vice-Rector for Strategic Development
- •Chart 1. The Structure of Vilnius University
- •Chart 2. The Structure of the Belarusian State University
- •Chart 3. A Faculty Structure
- •If you need to refresh your knowledge on how nouns denoting jobs and professions are formed, go to ‘Supplementary Material. Suffixes for Jobs and Professions’.
- •3 Study Chart 4 and comment on a possible career of a student in an academic field. Use the following pattern for your comments:
- •Research career teaching career
- •Chart 4. Academic Career
- •5 Each of sciences has a definite code of majors. Find a proof that specializations presented in Table 2 belong to philological sciences.
- •Informational texts
- •1St year
- •1St term
- •2Nd year
- •3Rd term
- •Sociology
- •Monday 21st – Friday 25th September 2009
- •Is looking for talents!
- •If you want to know more about song and dance culture of your country, learn to dance and sing and see the world with our theatre, join us!
- •2 Which of informational texts from task 1 do you need if
- •4 When at University you communicate not only with specific texts but also with people of different statuses. And this communication is to be organized according to specific rules.
- •6 Fill in the Self-Assessment Checklist:
- •Self assesment checklist
- •Unit 2 Knowledge of your new world in a broader context : Europpean Universities
- •Interpret mini-texts;
- •1 Look at the map of the Universities marked on the map of Europe. Do you know them? Pronounce their names in English. Sum up the ways universities are named.
- •The newest in my country My University
- •Types of Universities
- •Industrial Shop Corporation
- •Classical Research University
- •Factory University
- •4. Supermarket University
- •5. Project University
- •6. Network University
- •1 Read and compare texts and their interpretations. Answer the questions:
- •The rules of effective interaction in the Round Table format
- •3 Choose one of the topics for discussion and conduct it according to Round Table format rules (do not forget to set time limit to your discussion).
- •Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519)
- •2 Using paragraphs 3, 8 and 13 write down a review on Leonardo da Vinci as a learner.
- •3 Read in Appendix e about the format of a five-minute speech and present your review in this format.
- •2 Choose a well-known university of the world and write why you might want to study there.
- •5 Fill in the Self-Assessment Checklist:
- •Self-assessment checklist
- •Interaction skills in my new world
- •Verbalize your opinion in accordance with a certain style (type) of thinking;
- •2 Read the extract and check whether your expectations were right. Share your impressions of it. Compare yourself to Lev Tolstoy’s hero.
- •Studying at University
- •White Hat Thinking
- •Red Hat Thinking
- •Black Hat Thinking
- •Yellow Hat Thinking
- •Green Hat Thinking
- •Blue Hat Thinking
- •4 Practice wearing different hats. Have a special look at text 2 on p.138 using the Yellow Hat style of thinking and give advice to its author.
- •4 Study the lower part of the hourglass. Read the descriptions of the other four components.
- •5 To think scientifically does not necessarily mean that you do a research. The algorithm can be quite useful when you solve your everyday problems.
- •In case the problem does not prove itself as such, it may be wise to turn over the hourglass and to start anew. The first question here will be then: what is really topical and significant for me now?
- •We wish you all luck and success!
- •Rector’s Welcome Speech
- •4 Fill in the scheme ‘Hourglass’ on the activity ‘how to study successfully’.
- •5 To sum up Unit 3, read the story which happened to one of the authors of this book.
- •6 Fill in Self-Assessment checklist: self-assessment checklist
- •Keys to the units Part 2, Unit 1
- •Reality of the Middle Ages
- •Words (naming open schools) in their historical sequence
- •U niversity
- •University
- •. Review
- •Industrial Shop Corporation
- •Classical Research University
- •Factory University Type
- •Supermarket University Type
- •5. Project University
- •6. Network University Type
- •2.1. Key words
- •White Hat Thinking
- •Red Hat Thinking
- •Black Hat Thinking
- •Yellow Hat Thinking
- •Green Hat Thinking
- •Blue Hat Thinking
- •Keys to check yourself! unit 1
- •Faculty From where the word came, what it is, what it does:
- •3. Translate
- •Appendices
- •539 School
- •Cognitive map of vocabulary article ‘the University’
- •Variants of presenting only one theme of the map – a:
- •Variants of presenting the whole text (all themes in the cognitive map):
- •International public speaking competition: judging criteria
- •Verbal technique
- •References
Yellow Hat Thinking
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à While reading the text you come across abstract nouns with different suffixes (brightness, likelihood, fertility, growth). To refresh your knowledge of abstract nouns, go to Supplementary Material. Abstract Nouns.
ellow hat thinking is positive and constructive. The yellow color symbolizes sunshine, brightnessà and optimism.Yellow hat thinking is concerned with positive assessment, just as black hat thinking is concerned with negative assessment.
Yellow hat thinking covers a positive spectrum ranging from the logical and practical at one end to dreams, visions and hopes at the other end.
Yellow hat thinking probes and explores for value and benefit. Yellow hat thinking then strives to find logical support for this value and benefit. Yellow hat thinking seeks to put forward soundly based optimism but is not restricted to this — provided other types of optimism are appropriately labeled.
Yellow hat thinking is constructive and generative. From yellow hat thinking come concrete proposals and suggestions. Yellow hat thinking is concerned with efficiency and with making things happen. Effectiveness is the aim of yellow hat constructive thinking. Knowledge (scientia) is a word that may define the conditions under which actual understanding of what is true and what is false takes place; it may also define the act of pure speculation (speculation as thinking, considering).
Yellow hat thinking can be speculative and opportunity seeking. Yellow hat thinking also permits visions and dreams.
Yellow hat thinking is not concerned with mere positive euphoria (red hat) nor directly with creating new ideas (green hat).
Green Hat Thinking
The green hat is for creative thinking. The person who puts on the green hat is going to use the idioms of creative thinking. Those around are required to treat the output as a creative output. Ideally both thinker and listener should be wearing green hats.
The green color symbolizes fertility, growth and the value of seeds.
The search for alternatives is a fundamental aspect of green hat thinking. There is a need to go beyond the known and the obvious and the satisfactory.
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à In the text there are such words as seek and search, which have the same meaning ‘искать’. Do you know the difference between these similar words? If not, go to Supplementary Material. Words with a Similar Meaning.
he green hat thinker uses the creative pause to consider, at any point, whether there might be alternative ideas. There need be no reason for this pause.In green hat thinking the idiom of movement replaces that of judgment. The thinker seeksà to move forward from an idea in order to reach a new idea.
Provocation is an important part of green hat thinking, and is symbolized by the word po. A provocation is used to take us out of our usual patterns of thinking. There are many ways of setting up provocations, including the random word method.
Lateral thinking is a set of attitudes, idioms and techniques (including movement, provocation and po) for cutting across patterns in a self-organizing asymmetric patterning system. It is used to generate new concepts and perceptions.