ФГБОУ ВПО «ВОСТОЧНО-СИБИРСКАЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ КУЛЬТУРЫ И ИСКУССТВ»

КАФЕДРА ИНОСТРАННЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ И ОБЩЕЙ ЛИНГВИСТИКИ

Л.Е. ЗАБАНОВА

Л.М. ХОБРАКОВА

АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК ДЛЯ БАКАЛАВРОВ

Учебно-методическое пособие

Улан-Удэ

Издательско-полиграфический комплекс

ФГБОУ ВПО ВСГАКИ

2013

УДК 811.111 (075.8)

ББК Ш143.21я73

З-121

Утверждено

Редакционно-издательским Советом

ФГБОУ ВПО «Восточно-Сибирская государственная академия

культуры и искусств»

Рецензенты:

кандидат филологических наук,

доцент кафедры английской филологии

ФГБОУ ВПО БГУ

Е.П. Баяртуева

доктор филологических наук,

профессор кафедры иностранных языков и общей лингвистики

ФГБОУ ВПО ВСГАКИ

Э.В. Хилханова

	Забанова, Л. Е.
З-121	Английский язык для бакалавров: учебно-методическое пособие / Л. Е. Забанова, Л. М. Хобракова. – Улан-Удэ: Издательско-полиграфический комплекс ФГБОУ ВПО ВСГАКИ, 2013. – 77 с.

УДК 811.111 (075.8)

ББК Ш143.21я73

© Забанова Л.Е., Хобракова Л.М., 2013.

Предисловие

На­стоя­щая ра­бо­та пред­став­ля­ет со­бой учеб­но-ме­то­ди­че­ское по­со­бие по раз­ви­тию на­вы­ков уст­ной ре­чи на анг­лий­ском язы­ке и пред­на­зна­че­но для сту­ден­тов ба­ка­лав­риа­та. Оно вы­пол­не­но в рус­ле ком­пе­тент­но­ст­но-ори­ен­ти­ро­ван­но­го под­хо­да к обу­че­нию, на­прав­лен­но­го на дос­ти­же­ние ос­нов­ной це­ли – фор­ми­ро­ва­ние ино­языч­ной ком­му­ни­ка­тив­ной ком­пе­тен­ции.

По­со­бие со­сто­ит из 7 тем (topics): 1. Управ­ле­ние вре­ме­нем; 2. До­суг; 3. Пу­те­ше­ст­вия; 4. Выс­шее об­ра­зо­ва­ние; 5. Во­про­сы со­хра­не­ния на­сле­дия и ок­ру­жаю­щей сре­ды; 6. Тех­но­ло­гии в на­шей жиз­ни; 7. Му­зы­ка. Пред­ла­гае­мая те­ма­ти­ка от­ра­жа­ет ос­нов­ные сфе­ры ино­языч­но­го об­ще­ния, оп­ре­де­лен­ные дей­ст­вую­щи­ми об­ра­зо­ва­тель­ны­ми стан­дар­та­ми и При­мер­ной про­грам­мой по ино­стран­ным язы­кам.

Ка­ж­дая те­ма вклю­ча­ет те­ма­ти­че­ский спи­сок слов и сло­во­со­че­та­ний (Key Vocabulary), ба­зо­вые тек­сты для изу­че­ния, об­раз­цы диа­ло­гов и за­да­ния, раз­ви­ваю­щие на­вы­ки диа­ло­ги­че­ской и мо­но­ло­ги­че­ской ре­чи. Пред­ла­гае­мые уп­раж­не­ния име­ют ком­му­ни­ка­тив­ную на­прав­лен­ность, они си­туа­тив­но обу­слов­ле­ны и спо­соб­ст­ву­ют раз­ви­тию ре­че­мыс­ли­тель­ной ак­тив­но­сти сту­ден­тов. Ав­то­ры пред­ла­га­ют за­да­ния твор­че­ско­го ха­рак­те­ра, на­прав­лен­ные на ис­поль­зо­ва­ние ин­те­рак­тив­ных тех­но­ло­гий. По­со­бие со­дер­жит так­же сло­вар­ные ста­тьи ин­фор­ма­ци­он­но­го ха­рак­те­ра на рус­ском и анг­лий­ском язы­ках, пред­на­зна­чен­ные для рас­ши­ре­ния фо­но­вых зна­ний сту­ден­тов. Ис­точ­ни­ка­ми ау­тен­тич­ных тек­стов по­слу­жи­ли пе­рио­ди­че­ские из­да­ния, сло­ва­ри и эн­цик­ло­пе­дии, а так­же ма­те­риа­лы гло­баль­ной се­ти Ин­тер­нет.

Topic 1: management of time

Discussion

1. What takes up most of your time?

2. Do you think you manage your time wisely? Do you manage time, or does time manage you?

3. Do you schedule out what you have to do every week?

Key Vocabulary

Study the meaning of the key term of your essential vocabulary:

Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity. Time management includes planning, setting goals, delegation, analysis of time spent, monitoring, organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing.

English	Russian
spend time on	тратить время на
waste time	тратить время впустую
time-saving	экономный, экономящий время
time-consuming	затратный по времени
increase efficiency	повысить результативность, продуктивность, коэффициент полезного действия
set goals	ставить цели
delegate	распределять
prioritize	расставлять приоритеты
schedule	назначать, намечать, планировать
exercise control over	осуществлять контроль
persevere	упорно добиваться
procrastinate	откладывать, мешкать
procrastination	откладывание со дня на день, промедление
avoid	избегать
develop effective strategies	разрабатывать эффективные стратегии
save time	экономить время
urgent	срочный
keep to	придерживаться
accomplish	достигать, выполнять
achieve a goal	достигать цели
reward	вознаграждать, воздавать должное
run smoothly	проходить гладко (так как надо)
log time	проводить хронометраж, регистрировать
meet deadlines	соблюдать сроки, делать вовремя
tips on	советы о
revise for the exam	готовиться к экзамену
highlight	выделять, выдвигать на первый план
emphasize	подчеркивать; делать акцент
devote (to)	посвящать

For many people a working day is a series of routine actions, isn’t it? Interview your groupmate on what he/she likes to do during a day and what she/he hates doing.

Now read the text.

How to Manage Your Time Effectively

It's important that you develop effective strategies and skills for managing your time for study, leisure, earning money. Some of these skills include setting clear goals, breaking your goals down into steps, reviewing your progress towards your goals, prioritizing – focusing on urgent and important tasks; organizing your work schedule; list making to remind you of what you need to do; persevering when things are not working out and avoiding procrastination.

Keep to a to-do list

A daily list of tasks that need to be done is very important. Prioritize items on the list into important/not important and urgent/non-urgent.

Prioritize

Efficiency and effectiveness are not the same. Someone who works hard and is well organized but spends all their time on unimportant tasks may be efficient but not effective. To be effective, you need to decide what tasks are urgent and important and to focus on these. This is called prioritizing. Differentiate also between urgent and important tasks: an urgent task may not necessarily be important!

Avoid Procrastination

The best time to do something is usually NOW.

Break down tasks

Break goals down into their components so that you can accomplish them one step at a time. Reward yourself for achieving these goals to maintain your enthusiasm.

Persevere

Things will not always run smoothly. When things are not working out, you need to persevere. Mistakes are a vital part of any creative process. It is said that the people who have achieved the most have made the most mistakes!

Organize your time using a time log

Identify areas of your life where you are wasting time and try to reduce these. A good way to do this is to log everything you do for a week in detail and then examine your record to see how you use (or misuse!) your time. Develop a regular work routine. Keep your work space tidy. Work to schedule so that you meet deadlines.

Some tips on revising for examinations

*Plan out a revision schedule or timetable so you devote enough time to each subject.

*Summarize your lecture notes. Use a highlighter pen to emphasize key facts.

*For last minute revision, make minimal notes.

*When revising, take a few minutes break to refresh your mind and allow some time off for complete relaxation.

Answer the questions:

1. What do effective skills for managing time include?

2. What is prioritizing?

3. Which of the given tips on examination revision do you follow?

Making better use of time is becoming an increasingly essential feature of our life. Read some examples of time-saving tactics, rank them from 1 to 6 as the most helpful.

Create a ‘to do’ list. Every evening jot down the top 20 tasks to be done the next day, and review the list several times throughout the day. The best way to accomplish what’s on the list is to give each task a specific time slot.

Do it now. Many people waste too much time preparing to do something that they often have no time left to do it. Just dive in and you’ll be surprised at how fast you get things done.

The 80/20 Rule. Stay focused on priorities and allow more time (80%) for the most important things.

Know when to say ‘No’. Try to stay firm to save more time for yourself, turning down an invitation, missing an event, or telling someone they can’t come visit.

Use technology.

Notes:

jot down – кратко записать, набросать

You want to give the impression of being a person who manages his (her) time. You are very efficient. How do you manage your time? Which of the time-saving techniques do you use in your everyday practice? Share your ideas.

Practice the conversation with a partner. Dramatize it.

- I’ve got a good idea. How about going out together?

- I’d love to, but I’ll have an exam in two days. I have to revise day and night.

- In two days? And I’ll have my English exam tomorrow.

- Don’t you feel nervous?

- Of course, I do, but I have worked hard over my English the whole academic year. And I hope everything will be OK.

- How did you manage your time to be a success? As for me English has always been a great challenge since my school years.

- Have you ever heard about time-saving skills? As a matter of fact I have always been keeping to the priorities.

- What do you mean?

- When doing my homework I try to give the priority to the most difficult subjects getting ready for which takes much time.

- And I prefer to do what I like first and then, if time left, I come to the subjects I like least.

- It is not surprising that you’ve got such troubles with your English. Learning languages is really time-consuming process which requires many efforts and everyday revision. I really recommend you to follow my strategy. Besides, I can share my English learning techniques. Then, no doubt, you’ll make progress in English.

- I’ll be pleased to listen to your tips.

Comment on the time management quotes. Which of them do you like best? Why?

1. Don't wait. The time will never be just right. (Napoleon Hill) 2. All great achievements require time. (Maya Angelou)

3. The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)