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.pdf20.Discuss with your friend the way a scientific dis covery is made.
21.Arrange a panel discussion about a scientific theory and the ways it is elaborated.
PROBLEM
1.It has recently come to your knowledge that Dr. M. is planning to take up the problem, which is now your par ticular concern. You have written a letter to the scientist and asked him to share in the work you are doing.
2.You are now concerned with the study of the effects o f ... on ... . Will you be concerned with the same problem next year? Why?
3.A team of researchers is engaged in the study of a problem that seems most essential. They have carried out more than one set of experiments and all to no effect. No information is furnished by the experiments performed. Please, find out why.
4.Humanity has long been harassed by the problem of cancer and no. solution to it is found. We are interested to know why the problem is still so enigmatic and no solution is found up to now.
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5.The hypothesis which was advanced is going to be offered as a starting point for discussion.
6.Speak of the present level of knowledge of some major problems in your field, also of the progress being made and of the difficulties being encountered and over come.
7.Speak of the major problems of research in your laboratory; of the techniques that are being applied and of the results, which now seem promising.
8.Humanity has long been harassed by the problem of cancer and no solution to it is found. We are interested to know why the problem is still so enigmatic and no solution is found up to now.
9.Discuss with your colleague the present level of knowledge of some major problems in your field, also of the progress being made and of the difficulties being en countered and overcome.
10.Speak of the attempt imtde to distinguish between two substances in the light of recent findings.
11.Detailed observation of some processes was not made in the above studies. Discuss with your colleague the reason and the consequences.
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12. Organ transplantation is one of the most exciting and rapidly advancing branches of medical science. It is also one of the most challenging. Speak of the advances that have been made in the field.
13. The function of the nervous system is now the most challenging in biology. Speak of the progress that is being made in the above field now and has obviously been made in the past ten years.
SUBJECTS
1.The steady state theory suggests that the Universe looks more or less the same from any position and at any time in the past, present or future. The suggestion, as you know, does not hold true now. Describe some theory of the past that still remains valid nowadays.
2.It is quite obvious that work of the brain remains one of the major unsolved problems in biology nowadays. Speak of some major unsolved problem in biology science (solid state physics, plasma physics, archaeology, philoso phy, philology, etc.).
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3.Your colleague would like you to talk to the man you work under his supervision, on the subject concerned. You say you can't, for you haven’t seen him for about a month: the latter has been away studying theses in the National Li brary in Moscow.
4.You are interested to know how long your friend will be collecting the data relating to the subject he is concerned with.
5.Speak of a person who's always smiling and showing the best of his (her) humour, no matter what happens. Give some psychological analysis.
6.Your friend is doing a research with people who are showing discontent. Discuss the subject of research in de
tails.
7. These principles have been accepted without question by later writers on the subject. I wonder why these princi ples have been accepted without question by later writers on the subject.
8. The young man you're talking about is very shy. When he listens to a lecture, no matter how interesting, he never asks questions although he may have very searching ones to ask. However, a few days ago when we listened to a talk by Prof. Plain, he surprised all of us he asked questions which showed he was keenly interested in the subject.
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INVESTIGATION
1.You’re telling your colleagues that Prof. Ivanov has spoken about the work he's doing now. It's fascinating work, no doubt. Your colleagues cannot quite believe it
2.You are getting around to start a big fundamental re search, which will probably take you a few years to com plete. Please, state what it will consist in; what you are planning to do this year and in the coming two or three years.
3.You are now getting ready to write a thesis (mono graph, paper) and are collecting material for it. Please, speak of the subject-matter of the work and outline briefly what it will look like.
4.Do you know who laid the foundations of ...? Can you recall some scientists of the past whose fundamental discoveries were epoch-making in the science they worked in? What did their contemporaries think of their discover ies? Did they fight for their ideas? Did those ideas win rec ognition afterwards?
5.Describe a discovery in the past, one that might be called epoch-making. Give your account of it.
6.You would like your friend, a historian, to tell you what's going on in his science nowadays.
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7.Ask your friend, a biologist, working in the field of genetics to tell you of the progress being malde in that sci ence nowadays.
8.Describe the progress that has been made in your fie(ld for the last ten or fifteen years and speak of the possi ble advances that can be made in succeeding years.
9.You are now carrying on a new research, which you started last year. Could you tell us what preliminary work had been done before the present research was undertaken?
10.A few months ago it was decided to change the main direction,in the study being performed in your labo ratory. It seems strange that ijt should have happened then, when most of the work in the area had already been done. Could you explain why a decision to that effect was taken?
11.With the use of electron microscope technique you have recently obtained such data that couldn't have been obtained earlier. I wonder why no such data had been ob tained before the electron microscope came into use.
12.Progress in the field is rather slow. Hardly any notice able improvement is going to be brought about
13.Speak to your colleague who started a new set of ex periments hoping to obtain evidence in favour of his previous assumption. Will he be very disappointed if he fails to do so?
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14.You had some difficulty in your work. Then the dif ficulty was being overcome and further steps were being taken to bring the studies to a more realistic level.
15.Little progress was being made by you in this field because of the lack of fundamental theoretical works that were urgently needed.
16.Your friend told you that a new programme was being elaborated then and they were looking .'forward to it hoping they would have more opportunities for fundamen tal research.
17.You were told that the work, which was being done then was out of line with all the previous studies of the kind.
18.You would like to know if your friend talked to his supervisor about the newly obtained results. You asked him if they would be reported at die coming conference.
19.One of your fellow-workers in your field shows particular interest in the work you are doing and in the re sults that now seem available. He would like to know if you have reported some ofthem,}
20. Your colleague looks overworked and quite run down. You've never seen him looking so before. Find out what he has been doing all day. Were there any difficulties in his research work?
21.Give a complete account of the work recently done in the laboratory.
22.A group of two Swedish scientists has arrived at the Urals State University wishing to get familiar with the ba sic researches now being done at the Faculty.
23.When on a holiday you seldom stay in one place. Usually you move from one place to another. You find this very enjoyable. However, two months ago, when you were on leave, you stayed at home doing your research!
24.Find out from your colleague what his (her) profes sion is (by education), whether he (she) knows the profes sions of the other people in the group. Let him (her) imag ine what these professions are judging by the appearance of the person.
25.The data obtained bear out your previous results and support the assumption that the two processes are interre lated and that the same mechanism underlies both.
26.The book you mentioned is very important for my research. I tried to find it then and there and to no effect. I found it only a week ago and haven't yet made a thorough study of it.
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EXPERIMENT. METHODS. TECHNIQUE
1.Your colleague is now performing a new set of ex periments trying to elucidate some specific features of the phenomenon he is concerned with. You would like to know what specific features he is trying to elucidate.
2.It's about 8o'clock in the evening. There's no one working in your laboratory but one of your colleagues. You are surprised to see him there so late.
3.Dr. N. has helped you a lot to get over the difficulty you've had with your experiment this morning. You're telling him so stressing the fact that the expert advice he has given is most valuable. You say you will follow the procedure in your further experiments.
4.A team of researchers of Moscow University have developed a new technique for observing phenomena, which are not easy to observe with conventional tech niques. One of the participants, a guest of your laboratory is reported the results at the Urals State University confer ence.
5.Your friend started to work at the laboratory about five years ago. Ifs of interest for you to know if there have been any changes in the laboratory since then.
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6.The man I am now talking about is a botanist and works at the Urals Botanical Garden. You are curious to know how long and since what time he has been with the University.
7.You come into your laboratory one morning and find your fellow-workers all oveijoyed and overexcited. It ap pears they've been listening to the news on the wireless.
8.Your co-worker is busy with his experiment now and it seems it will take him long to finish it. Will the experi ment be over in three hours?
9.When did you begin the new series of experiments? Did it bring about any noticeable results?
10.I had a feeling that the information that had come from their earlier experiments was obviously of no par ticular importance.
11.It was quite obvious that the comments the ques tioner had made were the most irrelevant.
12.A new method is developed and is available for use, though it was not used yet. You would like to know why.
13.It's commonly known that rapid advances in modem technology are creating increasing demands for special materials with exceptional properties. Think of some such materials that are being extensively used nowadays.
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