- •1.1 Study the text below and answer the following questions:
- •1.2 Make up English-Russian pairs of words equivalent in meaning:
- •1.3 Form nouns by adding suffixes. Read and translate them:
- •1.4 Find synonyms in the list below, arrange them in pairs:
- •1.5. Find antonyms in the list below, arrange them in pairs:
- •1.6 Read the text to find the answers to the following questions:
- •Read passage 3 and speak about your research adviser according to the following plan:
- •Skim the text about the nature of research. Find an appropriate heading for each paragraph.
- •Scan the text and write the number of the paragraph where you can find the following information. Do it as quickly as possible.
- •Find Russian equivalents of the English words used in the text.
- •Look through the text again and find the words which mean the same. The paragraph numbers are given in brackets.
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian paying attention to the use of the word ′research′.
- •2.1 Read the text to find out the information about a scientific conference and its participants Overview of Steps
- •Tips for applying for conference bursaries/sponsored places
- •2.2 Match English words and word-combinations with the corresponding Russian ones:
- •2.3 Arrange in pairs the words which are close in meaning:
- •2.4 Arrange the following words in pairs of antonyms:
- •2.5 Translate the following sentences into Russian paying attention to the Subjunctive Mood:
- •2.6 Translate the sentences below using the given word-combinations
- •2.7 Answer the following questions so that the answers would make a comprehensive account of your participation in the work of some scientific gathering:
- •2.8 Read the text and give Russian equivalents to the underlined words and word -combinations. Find the answers to the following questions:
- •2.9 Study the text below. Give Russian equivalents of the underlined words and word-combinations.
- •2.10 Read the text again and find the answers to the following questions:
- •2.11 Match the English word-combinations with their Russian equivalents:
- •Comprehension check. Answer the following questions:
- •Find Russian equivalents of the English words used in the text.
- •3. Make up English-Russian pairs of the word groups equivalent in meaning.
- •4. In the sentences below recognize the words that are semantically similar and give their Russian equivalents.
- •5. Translate the following free word groups into Russian.
- •Unit 3. Dissertation research and writing
- •3.1 Study the text below and answer the following questions: t hesis
- •Structure
- •Thesis committee
- •3.1 Study the text below and answer the following questions:
- •3.2 Make up English-Russian pairs of words equivalent in meaning:
- •3.3 Match terms in column a with their definitions in column b.
- •3.4 Translate in italics.The following sentences into Russian paying attention to the word
- •3.5 Substitute the words in bold with the synonyms from the text.
- •3.6 Agree or disagree to the following statements:
- •3.7 Work in pairs. Give a detailed account of your University, research and activity. The questions below may guide you in your talk.
- •Dissertation research and writing--- not an easy task
- •The stage of “thinking about” what and how to write in your dissertation
- •Dissertation writing and research proposal guidelines.
- •Use the words in bold type in the sentences of your own.
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Unit 4. Choosing a topic for a dissertation
- •4.1 Read different points of view of some scholars on the problem of choosing a dissertation topic h ow does one choose a dissertation topic?
- •4.1 What adjectives would you use in characterizing the position occupied by:
- •4.2 Match a word in column a with its meaning in Column b
- •4.3 Choose the appropriate ending to the beginning of the phrases from the text
- •4. 5 Make up singular-plural pairs
- •4.6 Make up English-Russian pairs of word groups equivalent in meaning
- •4.7 Find three words meaning “в настоящее время”
- •4.8 You will find some quotes by famous people about dissertations. Agree or disagree with them. If these ideas don't mean anything to you now, revisit them after you finish writing a dissertation.
- •How To Write a Dissertation or Bedtime Reading For People Who Do Not Have Time To Sleep
- •What One Should Learn From The Exercise:
- •A Rule Of Thumb:
- •Definitions and Terminology:
- •Terms and Phrases to Avoid:
- •Focus On Results and Not The People/Circumstances
- •In Which They Were Obtained:
- •Avoid Self-Assessment (both praise and criticism):
- •References to Extant Work:
- •Concept vs. Instance:
- •Terminology for Concepts and Abstractions
- •Knowledge vs. Data
- •Cause and Effect:
- •Drawing Only Warranted Conclusions:
- •Politics and Science:
- •Canonical Organization:
- •Key To Success:
- •Insert the words:
- •Turn Interests into Questions
- •Unit 5 computer technologies
- •In doing research
- •5.1 Read the text to find out the information about the role of computers in a scientific research and answer the questions below: role of computers in research
- •The Role of Computer in Conceptual Phase
- •Role of Computers in Design and Planning Phase
- •Role of Computers in Empirical Phase
- •Role of Computers in Data Analysis
- •Pole of Computers in Research Dissemination.
- •5.2 Read the following international words and try to guess their meaning
- •Find pairs of words with the opposite meaning
- •Make the following words negative adding the appropriate prefix: im – ir – un – il – dis – mis – de – re
- •5.9 Read and translate the following words and word combinations
- •5.10 Read and translate the text
- •Internet
- •Look through the text and do the tasks to it
- •2. Translate the following combinations into English and use them in the sentences of your own
- •3. Translate into English
- •4. Speak about:
- •5. Skim through the text and say what it is about
- •Read the text about the international collaboration. Translate the phrases in bold type.
- •Unit 6. Academic article
- •6.1 Study the text below and answer the following questions: abstracts
- •Keywords
- •6.2 Match the following words and word-combinations used for retelling of the article and its summarizing.
- •6.3 Finish up the sentences with the words true to one of your article.
- •6.4 Make a summary of any article you are interested in using the summarizing algorithm
- •6.5 Correspond the Latin/Greek root with its meaning and the appropriate derivative.
- •6.6 Study the following abstracts in Russian and English and compare them.
- •6.7 Translate the phrases recommended for writing abstract.
- •6.8 Translate the following sentences paying attention to the context in which the words in bold used
- •6.9 Read and translate the sentences with numbers
- •6.10 Translate the following phrases
- •Why undertake postgraduate study?
- •I Really Enjoy My Subject
- •I Need It to Pursue My Chosen Career
- •I Don’t Know What to Do – This Will Give Me More Time to Decide
- •Apart from the above reasons you may have some others worth mentioning. Put them down in the order of preference in writing.
- •7.1 Study the examples below for ideas on what to include in a book review. Give the reasons why you think the books might be useful for readers
- •Economic Concepts for the Social Sciences
- •7.2 Read the following sentences and translate them into Russian paying special attention to the underlined parts. Discuss with your fellow-student the books described above.
- •7.3 Speak about the book you are reading (or have recently read). Use the words and word-combinations in your description.
- •7.4 Ask your fellow student the following questions. Work in pairs.
- •7.5 Translate into English
- •7.6 Use the following expressions in your own sentences
- •7.7 Ask your fellow-student the following questions. Work in pairs
- •7.13 Read the book review and be ready to answer the questions that follow
- •7.14 Answer the following questions about the book and review given above
- •7.15 Write a review of a book you would like to recommend to your fellow-students. Bring the book to class for the students to browse through while you talk about it. The points to be covered:
- •7.16 Speak about your own publications. Use the following questions as a guide for your talk.
- •1. Skim the text about critical literature review. Find an appropriate heading for each paragraph.
- •Find Russian equivalents of the English words used in the text.
- •Fill in the blanks in the text using the phrases from the box.
- •Give adequate Russian equivalents of the italicized words:
- •Unit 8 plagiarism
- •Лингвистический аспект
- •8.1 Read the text to find out the information about a very serious and widespread problem of plagiarism. Plagiarism
- •Common forms of student plagiarism
- •Match English words and word-combinations with the corresponding Russian ones:
- •Understand what doesn't need to be cited.
- •8.7 Translate into English.
- •8.8 Choose the right words:
- •8.9 What do the underlined words from the text refer to?
- •8.10 Study the following list of prefixes and then match the terms at the left below with their meanings at the right. You will not use all the meanings listed.
- •Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal
- •Match the words with their definitions
- •Find the following word-combinations in the text and say I what contexts they were used. Use them in your own sentences.
- •Education-oriented languages
- •Seismic Shift
- •Mathematicians Solve 140-Year-Old Boltzmann Equation
- •Earth sciences
- •Pedagogy: art, science or craft?
- •Have Political Parties Lost Their Power? Yes.
- •Applied psychology
- •Contemporary economic sociology
- •Physical education is key to improving a child's confidence, brainpower and long-term health
- •What does it mean to say somebody is bilingual?
- •The conservation of matter
- •Keynesian analysis. The problem of coordination
- •Methodological considerations in contemporary comparative law
- •Оглавление
- •Введение в экотуризм: успехи первых 25 лет
- •Словарь
- •My research work
Оглавление
Введение в экотуризм: успехи первых 25 лет………………………………..3
Сохранение общественного блага на частных землях общины: Белиз……………………………………………………………….....................5
Создание союзов между сообществами и охраняемыми территориями: Эквадор…………………………………………………………………….……7
Вывод: наше будущее………………………………………………………….15
Эпилог: новая парадигма духа………………………………………………..17
Словарь………………………………………………………………………….18
Введение в экотуризм: успехи первых 25 лет
Экотуризм на мировой арене понимается как один из жизнеспособных способов сохранения природных ресурсов при их использовании для подъема экономики и улучшения условий проживания местных жителей. Имеются различные отзывы о его потенциале и успехе в целом. С одной стороны, экотуризм способствует сохранению культур и биоразнообразия. С другой точки зрения, экотуризм обвиняют в уничтожении естественной среды и человеческого достоинства местных культур…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Человечество всегда экспериментировало с созданием глобальных организаций, таких как Лига Наций и Организация Объединенных Наций. Мирового правительства пока еще нет, но это тенденция нашего будущего. Для того чтобы сделать к этому следующий шаг, и нужна новая парадигма духа.
Словарь
Area – свободное пространство, территория; protected area – охраняемая территория.
Attraction – привлекательность.
Balance – баланс, равновесие.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
50. Preservation – сохранение, сохранность.
Appendix 4.
My research work
I am an engineer. My special subject is ... I combine practical work with scientific research. I am doing research in ... This branch of knowledge has been rapidly developing in the last two decades. The obtained results have already found wide application in most varied spheres of the country's national economy.
I am particularly interested in ... which includes ... I have been working at the problem for... years. I got interested in it when I was a student. My work is primarily of practical importance, it is based on the theory developed by the collaborators of our department. So I can say that I work in close cooperation with my colleagues. We also closely collaborate with several enterprises of our republic. There are several research teams at our department. The team I work in is headed by Doctor of Technical sciences ... He is my scientific adviser. I always consult him when I encounter difficulties in my research. We often discuss the obtained data.
As I am rather an experementator than a theoretician I make use of different equipment .... The obtained data enabled me to define more precisely the theoretical model of .... I have not yet completed the experimental part of my thesis, but I am through with theoretical part. For the moment I have ... scientific papers, some of which were published when I was a student. Two of them were published in the journals of Japan and ...
I take part in various scientific conferences where I make reports on my subject, I willingly participate in scientific discussions and debates. I am planning to finish writing the thesis by the end of next year and prove it in the scientific Council of the ... Institute, I hope to get the scientific degree of a candidate (Master) of Technical sciences.
I. What are you?
2. What field of knowledge are you doing research in?
3. Have you been working at the problem long?
4. Who do you collaborate with?
5. Who is the team you work is headed by?
6. What kind of instruments do you make use of in your research?
7. How many scientific papers have you published?
8. When and where are you going to get your Candidate's degree?
Possible Questions
What higher school did you graduate from?
What chair do you work at?
Who (what) is your scientific supervisor (adviser)?
What problem is being analyzed at-present by you?
Have you already studied the subject thoroughly?
What problem are you specializing at present?
How long had you been working as an engineer before you started the research work?
Will you manage to defend thesis in time?
What does your work consist in? What do you concentrate on?
Don't you think you could finish the work in time?
Are you an experimenter or a theoretic (theoretician)?
When did you start experimental (scientific) work?
What did your first experiment show?
Do you have any scientific publications? In what journals?
Did you make any reports at scientific conferences?
Are there any other hypotheses on the problem you are working at?
Could you give an example of any law in your field of research?
What is expected to result from your experiment (method, device)?
How do you propose to solve the problem?
What kind of work is being done at your laboratory (chair, department)?
What do you think is the value of your research work?
How long had you been doing your research work when you obtained, practical results?
What kind of experiment do you do? (carry on)
Are you inclined to question theories or you take them all for granted?
What is of particular difficulty in your work?
Are there any similar investigations abroad?
Who first conceived the idea of your study? (concern)
What are the advantages of your method?
Is your work being done fey on a new method? Do you re-examine the problem from the point of view of the new theory?
Are you going to work out a new method of research?
What method would you choose to apply?
Do you suppose to enrich science by new discovery?
Is your laboratory equipped in the most modem way? How is your laboratory equipped; does it have any advantages over other laboratories?
Where arid when did you study?
What Regional Training Institute did you attend?
What degree did you receive after graduating from the academy?
Describe your educational background?
What's your post-secondary education?
What's your professional education?
What's your marital status?
Are you single or married?
What is the number of dependents/children?
What is your material status?
Do you have a drive license?
What do you do for a living? (I am in computers; I am a product manager).
Speak about your career development?
What was your first job?
How many times did you change jobs and why?
What is your present job?
What courses did you take during training for your present job?
Are you satisfied with your job?
How long were you in (with) your last job?
Would you like to change your present job?
What company do you work for?
Where is your company situated? Where is the place of your employment?
How do you get there?
How long does it take you to get there?
Is your company a part of a larger holding company? How is your business registered?
Where are the head quarters of the company located?
Describe your duties. What are your responsibilities?
Who is the chief of your department?
Who do you work for?
What's your position in the company?
Who are you responsible to?
Who do you report to?
Are you doing well at your company?
What do you do at your company?
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1 соискатель
2 Американский фонд гражданских исследований и развития
3 All But Dissertation (ABD)
4 Rogeting is a neologism created to describe the act of plagiarizing a published source by substituting synonyms for sufficient words to fool common plagiarism detection software
5 A poem by William Morris with the same name