See the Unit 11 from the Oxford Practice Grammar by George Yule and follow the instructions.

Do the grammar exercises: Unit 11/11.10-11.12 p. 64 Oxford Practice Grammar. Supplementary exercises, 2007 by George Yule.

Self work tasks

Make presentation of slides about Interactive board Computer in Wonderland. Ф.Петров. Москва,1989 (pp 123-127)

http://www.english-easy.info/topics/topics_Computers.php#axzz2B47MFA98

Doing grammar exercises Unit 29/29.1-29.3 p. 59 Advanced Grammar in Use, 2006 by Martin Hewings.

Unit 13

Theme: Writing Research Papers

Grammar: Complex Infinitives and Gerunds

Objectives: By the end of this unit, students should be able to use active vocabulary of this theme in different forms of speech exercises. Students should be better at discussing writing research papers. Students should know the rule of Complex Infinitives and Gerunds.

Methodical instructions: This theme must be worked out during two lessons a week according to timetable.

Lexical material: Introduce and fix new vocabulary on theme “Writing Research papers”. Define the basic peculiarities in writing research papers.

Grammar: Introduce and practice the Complex Infinitives and Gerunds.

Ex.1 Read and summarize the idea:

Writing Research Papers

Writing a research paper takes a lot of time and effort. It demands a thorough knowledge not only of the subject you are writing about also of the strategies for generating, verifying, substantiating and proving ideas. It is necessary to follow the structure, style, format and layout of the paper. The following guidelines will help you by providing a step-by-step explanation of the research writing process.

Gathering Data and writing summary notes

When reading papers written by other authors on the subject that is of interest to you, you must write summary notes. There are two kinds of summary notes. A summary condenses into a brief note the key ideas of a source. It is a concise description of the material without a lot of concern for details. Summary notes are very helpful when you deal with references to source materials, statistical data and all kinds of facts on your specific topic.

A précis is a polished summary that in few words expresses the key ideas of an entire paragraph, section or chapter. Writing a précis proves to be very helpful when you review an article, a book or produce an abstract. To produce a précis, condense the original piece of writing, reducing a paragraph into a sentence, an article into a brief paragraph, a book into a page. Preserve the tone and moods of the original (serious, skeptic, doubtful, etc.), do not take material out of context. Always locate the source of your material.

1. Write a précis of an article using the instructions above.

He was an effective leader who got commitment by soliciting advice, who got the best from people by expecting the best, whose fundamental decency was apparent in every interaction. He taught by example that the highest standards can be reached cooperatively, without envy, jealousy or corrosive competition.

I was fortunate to have Tom as an instructor for the first course at the university. It was clear to all of us that Tom knew his subject thoroughly. Moreover, his lectures were very well organized, clear, concise and delivered with a sense of humour. Tom was well aware of this and motivated his students by beginning each of his lectures with a short intuitive discussion of the topic that he was going to talk about that day and by briefly outlining its importance, often relating the topic to other subjects that we were studying.

Among the many reasons for Tom's great success as a teacher was his love of interacting with people. He clearly enjoyed teaching a subject that was dear to him and seeing others take pleasure in learning about it.

I was also fortunate to have Tom as a graduate supervisor, a role in which he excelled. In part, this was because he was an excellent researcher himself. He was the chairman of the economic science department, a member of the Research Council of Canada, an editor of prestigious journals, the author of several of the most important papers and an invited speaker at many international conferences. He knew most of the key players in the research area and was aware of the topics on which they were working. He had a very good sense for what was a good problem to tackle and what would likely be fruitless.

In spite of his extremely busy schedule, he always found time for his students and he gave all of us the impression that our work was a high priority for him. He was always supportive, encouraging and very generous in his praise of good ideas. He usually got the student back on track and feeling positive about pursuing another line of attack.

Ex 2. Comment on the statement: "We get the best from people by expecting the best".

Ex 3. After reading some reminiscences of Tom's students, give the article a title.

Ex 4. Give reasons why you have chosen such a title for the article. What could you say about your supervisor?

Ex 5. Read this excerpt and explain the title of your research paper. How did you choose it?

Now, what does a research paper consists on? Well, the first item is a title, This is perhaps the most important single part of the paper. This is the kind of thing that you ought to be looking at.

Now there are a lot of mistakes that people make in titles - they make them so genera/that it doesn't act as the filtering mechanism that it should be acting. Some of them are so long that people who have to quote the title repeatedly - and in many situations one does have to put the title of the paper - well, these people can be driven to madness at a title that's about seven lines long as some might be, Some of them are irrelevant; often we write a paper, a report, we're first asked to supply a title and then three months later, the actual paper or report itself. And by that lime our views may be changed, we may be stuck with a title that we now don't find suitable. Well, change it by all means.

Grammar: Complex Infinitives and Gerunds