Testing Times
Exam stress doesn't occur most strongly during the actual exams but in the few weeks just before them. The climax is usually the night before when last minute preparations confirm your worst fears (страх). There are, however, some simple ways of dealing with the problem.
First, one must know that the night before is too late to do anything. Much better to go to a dance, for a walk, to the pictures or to play a game rather than increase stress by frantic efforts to plug in gaps (затыкать пробелы) in your knowledge.
The brain is a complex bio-electrical machine which, like a computer, can be overloaded. It does not work continuously. When you study, your brain reaches its maximum efficiency about five minutes you start work, stays at it for about ten minutes and then it is down. Indeed, after thirty minutes your attention wonders (отвлекаться), your memory shuts off, and boredom (скука) sets in.
For this reason, the best way to study is in half-hour sessions with gaps in between of about the same length. It even helps to change subjects and not keep at the same one since it reduces the boredom factor.
Study stress was experienced by Isaac Newton, the greatest mathematical genius, and by Einstein. Newton had a depression after his efforts on gravity.
Einstein had no such difficulty: he would break off and go sailing or play violin — not very well, he said, but it was very comforting.
The lesson here is clear. To avoid exam stress, you have to tell that what you are doing is fun (забава) and the best way to do this is to treat revision as a game. If you stimulate your brain with short, snappy (энергичный) sessions, you will be surprised how quick and sharp you are. A laugh with friends or a walk through the country is really giving your mind the recreation it needs.
How do you understand this one?
Read the conception below and discuss the questions:
“Lifelong learning”.
1.What does the conception mean?
2.Do you agree with it? Why? Why not?
Exercise 2. Translate the sentences with it in different functions.
1. It is a new subject. It is very im portant for our future speciality. We shall study it for two years. It will be our future speciality, but we do not know much about it in the first year. 2. It is known that the knowledge of general engineering subjects is the basis for the study of special subjects. 3. It seems that he works a lot. 4. It is said that the chemistry laboratory of our institute is good. 5. The student finds it difficult to translate such a text without a dictionary. 6. It was not easy to study at the institute. 7. It is important to understand the fundamentals of this science. 8. It was A.S. Popov who invented the radio. 9. It is the knowledge of general engineering subjects that is the basis of engineering training.
Do exercises from Macmillan English grammar in use.
Lesson 10
The role of science in manufacture
Grammar: Функции и перевод one
one функциясы және аудармасы
Before you start
Why manufacture is closely connected to science?
Reading
Exercise 1.Read the text and find answers to the questions below:
How does higher education help to improve manufacture and develop industry?
What must a qualified engineer know to meet the needs of industry?
How do scientists and engineers contribute to engineering education?
What can help to solve the processing problems?