- •Английский язык в профессиональной коммуникации
- •Предисловие
- •Text 1.The importance of learning foreign languages
- •Choose the right answer using information from the text.
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian, pay attention to the modal verbs and their equivalents.
- •Point out the reasons for learning foreign languages described in the text. Think of your own reasons for that. Discuss it with the other students in class.
- •Render the text using the following plan:
- •Text 2. Planning a career
- •Say if the statements are true or false.
- •Match the words from the text and the definitions given below.
- •Make up a dialogue between undergraduates about their future career. Discuss the following questions:
- •Text 3.
- •I. Give the text the proper title.
- •II. Match the phrases from the text with their Russian variant.
- •III.Answer the following questions:
- •IV.Enlarge upon the following topics:
- •Text 4. Teaching as a Profession
- •Match the words and definitions
- •II. Choose between “to educate”, “to bring up” and “to teach” to complete the following sentences.
- •III. Insert the appropriate nouns and adverbs in the following sentences.
- •Speak about your typical day as if you were a teacher. Text 5. A teacher’s lot is certainly a different one
- •I. Choose the right answer or continue the statements given below.
- •Discuss the peculiarities of the teaching profession. Why is it so different from the other jobs?
- •A friend of yours is going to become a teacher. Using the active vocabulary inform him/her about advantages and disadvantages of his/her future profession. Text 6.
- •Put these events in the order in which they happened.
- •Find in the text expressions which mean the same as the following:
- •Text 7. Archimedes
- •Read and translate the following international words:
- •Form Present, Past and Future Simple Passive from the following expressions:
- •Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Speak about the story about Archimedes described in the text. Text 8.Euclid
- •Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Form Present, Past and Future Simple Passive from the following expressions.
- •Speak about Euclid and one of his famous books which is called “Elements”. Text 9. Albert Einstein
- •Find international words in the text and guess their meaning.
- •Give the Russian equivalents to the following words and word combinations:
- •Speak about a. Einstein’s greatest discoveries. Signs used in Mathematics
- •Text 10.
- •Match the words in column a with their equivalents in column b.
- •II. Fill in the blanks with the proper words.
- •III. Choose the right answer to the question.
- •IV. Choose the proper title to the text.
- •V. Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Text 11.
- •I. Match the words in column a with their equivalents in column b.
- •II. Fill in the blanks with the proper words.
- •III. Choose the right answer to the question.
- •IV. Choose the proper title to the text.
- •V. Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Text 12.
- •I. Match the words in column a with their equivalents in column b.
- •II. Fill in the blanks with the proper words.
- •III. Choose the right answer to the question.
- •IV. Choose the proper title to the text.
- •V. Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Text 13.
- •Match the words in column a with their equivalents in column b.
- •Fill in the blanks with the proper words.
- •III. Choose the right answer to the question.
- •IV. Choose the proper title to the text.
- •V. Give the correct translation of the underlined part.
- •Text 14. Four Basic Operations of Arithmetic
- •Answer the following questions to the text:
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian:
- •Text 15. Microsoft.
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Choose the right answer to the questions:
- •Insert the required word or a phrase.
- •Render the article using the following plan:
- •Text 16.
- •Introduction to the www and the Internet
- •Define the following words using a dictionary:
- •Match the sentences with the required words:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Discuss the following:
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Say if the statements are true or false.
Having a job and having a career are two different things.
Planning a career can begin at any age.
The choice of a career doesn’t only depend on a person’s talent and interests.
To face a competitive job market is to have no guarantees for getting a job.
To make control of the future and to be well-prepared for the challenge of the job market, one should take several very important steps.
Match the words from the text and the definitions given below.
to combine desires and interests
obligation
elder brothers or sisters
jobs that may be obtained
a situation in which you have to compete for a job
the changes of the job market
self-encouragement
progress through life (career)
Make up a dialogue between undergraduates about their future career. Discuss the following questions:
What jobs in your country are popular with young people? Why?
Is it easy for young people in your country to find the jobs they want?
What factors (salary, opportunities for travel or promotion, working hours) would you take into account in choosing a career for yourself?
What qualifications will you need for tat job?
What appeals to you about that kind of job?
Use in your discussion the following phrases:
I think a career in … might/might not be appropriate for me because …
Do you think it would be a good idea if I went into … ?
If you choose …, you would be able to …
In my view it’s essential/quite important/not very important to have such qualities as …
My choice depends very much on the opinion of my parents.
I am not sure yet about my choice.
Text 3.
Many young people consider teaching as a career. It’s not surprising: after your parents your teacher may be the most important person in your life. With all the teachers you meet, you think there isn’t anything you don’t know about the work. That’s where you are wrong, since only those who are in it can appreciate it. Have you ever asked yourself why most teachers are so devoted to their work and privately think, though they may not like to admit it openly, that they serve humanity doing the most vital job of all? Those of us who spend our days in schools know how rewarding the job is. At the same time it is not easy and a real challenge to your character, abilities and talent, as teaching is a constant stream of decisions.
Children in your classroom aren’t just boys and girls. Everyone is a unique individual who has never been before and will never again exist. If you like people, you will love teaching. To be a good teacher you must be genuinely interested in what you are doing.
The most important things in the world are awareness and learning — wanting to know every day of your life more and more and more. Because every time you learn something new you become something new. An ignorant teacher teaches ignorance, a fearful teacher teaches fear, a bored teacher teaches boredom. But a good teacher catalyzes in his pupils the burning desire to know and love for the truth and beauty.