- •General english
- •For university students
- •How does it feel to be a student?
- •Think-pair-share
- •I am at university
- •Is it true about you?
- •New life Challenges
- •What do we have in common?
- •Fight the gossip!
- •Learning and learners
- •How to be a five-star student
- •What learner type are you?
- •Study Tips for Everyone
- •My university
- •Vspu-2015
- •Memory game.
- •Vinnytsia state pedagogical university (vspu)
- •Fact and Gossip
- •Say it otherwise!
- •How do you feel about it?
- •Agree-Disagree Game
- •Getting around the university
- •Problem-solving
- •Hot Potato Game:
- •Basic info
- •How Can We Make Our University a Better Place?
- •The People on the Campus
- •Your infos
- •Pros and cons battle
- •What's the best option?
- •Perfect roommate search
- •Doing the chores.
- •Vacuuming
- •House Rules
- •Things to pack for university
- •Things and Habits
- •Five things
- •What is this? a guessing game
- •Everyday problems
- •The university stressors
- •I don't mind…
- •It's hard for me…
- •It takes time to…
- •Ways to relieve stress (a survey).
- •Reading infographics
- •I don’t spend a lot of money on food as I bring a lot from home. I sometimes have lunch at the canteen or a cup of tea in the cafeteria. But it's usually cheap.
- •What Do You Spend Your Money On?
- •Money management (tips for students)
- •How to avoid freshman 15
- •More Tips:
- •Food pyramid
- •Vegetables
- •Foods and Nutrients
- •Harmful Combinations
- •Choosing a career: what factors matter?
- •What job is best for you?
- •Reading and speaking part 1
- •Part 2 Business Vs. Job: Should We Go For It?
- •It's a work world
- •What Jobs are These?
- •Life swap
- •Two Pluses and a Minus
- •Guess what my job is! (Typical job questions)
- •Job Satisfaction and Work Burnout
- •Men and women at work
- •5 Major differences between men and women at work
- •Success and Failure
- •Team Players and Team Play
- •Ideas and Solutions
- •Goals vs. Processes
- •Generations of workers
- •Who gets the job?
- •Speaking about work
- •Comment on the remarks of the following people using the expressions from the box:
- •Complete the comments using your own ideas.
- •What do employees typically do if…Answer the questions using the collocations from the box.
- •5 Dialogues have been mixed up. Join the parts together and set them right!
- •Giving Advice
- •Work idioms
- •Match the phrasal verbs and idioms with their definitions:
- •Say the same replacing the parts in italics with the expression from a):
- •Working in the 21st Century
- •Teleworking: the Working Style of the Future?
- •Future of Work
- •Unit 11
- •Job hunting
- •How to Organize Your Job Search. Find the 5 Hidden Tips!
- •Headhunters and Job hunters
- •Job Interview: The Classic Do's And Don'ts
- •1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
- •2. An old friend who once saved your life.
- •3. The perfect man (or) woman you have been dreaming about.
- •Bad answers.
- •Taboo interview questions
- •Interviews aren't just about giving the right answers—they're about asking the right questions.
- •Think outside the box!
- •Curriculum vitae
- •Cover letter
- •Good and Bad cVs
- •Personal details:
- •Personal Profile Statement:
- •Achievements:
- •Education and Qualifications
- •Employment and Work History
- •Hobbies and Interests
- •Referees:
- •Cover Letter
- •Editing the Cover Letter
- •Use the words in the box to complete the statements below:
- •2. Paraphrase the following statements using the words and collocations below:
- •Use the official rules of transliteration to fill in the table in English:
- •Story without ending
- •Unit 2 learning and learners
- •Use Present Simple or Present Continuous to put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •Bring the words together to make collocations. Write your own sentences in Present Simple or Present Continuous using these collocations.
- •Mark the following statements as true or false.
- •Revise the vocabulary of Issue 1 (I am at university) and choose the correct option.
- •Use the word bank of Module 1 (see the Student's Book ) to solve the crossword puzzle
- •Who does what?
- •Supply the words for the following definitions:
- •Match the parts of the collocations:
- •Fact file
- •In what order do you do these things?
- •Divide the statements into fact and opinion ones and put them down in two columns:
- •Write your own ad for a roommate. Include the important details about yourself and about your possible partner.
- •Guess what these people are looking for or need:
- •What's the problem?
- •Fill in the gaps with appropriate question words:
- •Use the word bank of Issue 3 (Student Accommodation) to complete the sentences:
- •Restore the questions to which the following answers can be appropriate:
- •Do the crossword puzzle (the vocabulary of Issue 3).
- •Refer to the text in you Student's Book or use your own ideas to answer the following questions:
- •Refer to the infographic image in your Student's Book and write the tips that concern:
- •Some of the following sentences contain grammar mistakes. Correct those that are wrong.
- •Review the vocabulary of the previous issues and mindmap the following words and collocations:
- •Choose the proper option:
- •Say the same using the vocabulary list of this issue:
- •Now use the words from ex. 1 to make the sentences complete:
- •Correct the mistakes.
- •Write random questions for your fellow-students with the following words:
- •Put questions to the following statements:
- •Underline the correct word:
- •Write who the following things belong to:
- •Use the information of the text (the Student's Book) and give answers to the following questions:
- •What nutrients will you get if you eat:
- •What are your "happy" foods?
- •How is your diet different in winter, in summer, in spring and in autumn?
- •Useful:______________________________________________________________________________________________
- •Choose the proper list of foods to match each food category:
- •Write three easy-to-cook recipes good for busy students to cook, and share them with the rest of the class.
- •Using the information of this issue make up a list of questions to find out how healthy your fellow-students' diet is. You can also develop it into a quiz. These two may be used as an example.
- •Write the plural of the following nouns.
- •Module 3 work and employment
- •Fill in the gaps choosing a suitable word from the box below.
- •Supply words for the following definitions (go back to 2. What job is best for you in the Student's Book).
- •Go back to the text "Job vs Business: Which is Better" in your Student's Book and complete the statements below using the author's ideas:
- •Go back to the text "Job vs Business: Which is Better" in your Student's Book and rephrase the following statements using the words and phrases in bold:
- •Go back to the text "Business Vs. Job: Should We Go For It?" and continue the statements showing the benefits of having a business in opposition to having a job:
- •Match the parts of the collocations. Complete the statements below using them.
- •Choose one word that collocates with all the three other words in each set:
- •Choose the word that best completes the sentence.
- •The words in italics have been mixed up. Set them right to make 7 correct collocations:
- •It's a work world
- •Match the parts of word combinations identifying jobs:
- •Write the questions to match the answers (go back to Ex. 5 in your Student's Book)
- •Solve the crossword puzzle:
- •Working people
- •Job Satisfaction vs. Job Dissatisfaction. Complete the lists of factors with the words from the box:
- •Write the following sentences in English:
- •"Translate" the idioms in the following text into common English, reorganize the sentences if necessary.
- •Fill in the correct possessive adjective or pronoun:
- •Complete the questions with the initial questions words, modal verbs or auxiliaries (How many, Do, Can, Are etc.):
- •Using the information provided by the infographic image below to create 10 tips for a successful job interview:
- •Read the cover letter below. Choose from a-h the one which best fits each space 1-8. There are two choices you do not need to use:
- •Read the Resume and find proof for the following statements. Copy the corresponding infos from the text into the spaces after each statement:
- •Iryna Mazur
- •67 Vulytsia Zamostianska, Vinnytsia, Ukraine, 21000
- •Write your own resume using Iryna's one as an example.
- •Use your personal information to complete the Cover Letter template. Stick to the formal writing style.
- •Module 1
- •Module 2
- •Module 3
- •Read the text and define if the statements are true or false (t/f).
- •Complete the definitions with highlighted words from the text. Change the form of the word when necessary.
- •Module 4
- •4. Read the text and complete the tasks below.
- •Match the headings a-h to the paragraphs 1-6. There are two extra headings that you do not need to use.
- •Complete the definitions with highlighted words from the text. Change the form of the word when necessary.
Pros and cons battle
a) Get divided into three teams. Each of the teams is to think of the benefits of one of the accommodation options. At the same time give arguments against the other two types.
e.g. Living in student halls is always fun. You never get bored. Rented accommodation is expensive and staying at home does not let you become independent. The team that provides most of pro and con arguments wins. Keep track of the score using this table. Put a "+" for each pro and a "–" for each con.
Only unrepeated arguments count.
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Student halls
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Rented accommodation
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Staying at home
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Consider the pros and cons of each housing option and come up with your tips on how to have a good life in each case.
What's the best option?
As a student you have several accommodation options. You should consider all of them before making a decision.
University Halls of Residence:
Most universities house their students in their own accommodation. It is usually cheaper than rented accommodation. You'll have to share the kitchen and the bathroom. In some student halls the conditions are really basic.
Over to you:
Are you happy with the conditions in your hall of residence? Consider the positive and the negative sides.
How many people are you sharing your room with? Are they from your department?
Do your roommates have any annoying habits?
Is it ok for you to share your room with another person/people? Why? Why not?
Private Renting :
This is a very popular form of student accommodation. Ukrainian students usually share a rented room with one or two other students with the landlady living in the next room. Some students rent two- or three-room flats and the landlady lives in another place and comes every month to get the rent.
Over to you:
Do you get on with your landlady/landlord? How old is she/he? Do you talk to her/him about your life? Does she/he allow you to bring friends over?
How are you getting on with your roommate?
Do you have any house rules?
Staying at home:
Financially, this may be the best option. Nothing changes for these students much.
Over to you:
Would you like to study in another city? Why yes or why not?
Do you visit your fellow-students at the hall of residence?
Do you think you are missing out on "real student life" when at home?
Perfect roommate search
Rooming together can be a challenge. All people are different in their living styles and daily habits. But it can also be fun if you get along.
The questions in this survey will help you to pick the right roommate. At first, answer the questions yourself and then interview the person sitting next to you. Compare the answers and decide if you can be good roommates. If not, interview somebody else until you find the right roommate.
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Do you sit up late when you study? |
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Can you sleep in full light or when it's not very quiet? |
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Can you study when somebody is talking or moving round the room? |
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Are you a light sleeper or a good sleeper? |
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Do you keep the window open during the day (night)? |
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Are you neat or "relaxed" about order? |
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How often do you clean your room? |
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Do you smoke or drink? |
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Do you enjoy talking or do you prefer to be quiet all the time? |
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Do you talk about feelings or keep to yourself? |
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What kind of music do you listen to? |
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Do you enjoy listening to music when it's loud? |
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Is it ok for you to share kitchen stuff or do you prefer to have everything separate? |
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How often do you invite friends and boyfriend/girlfriend over? |
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How often are you planning to talk on skype? |
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Your question(s) |
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Follow-up: What is your perfect roommate like? What does he/she do and doesn't do? Do you think you are a good roommate? Why? Why not?