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Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего

образования «Нижегородский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет»

E. A. Пушкарева

ENGLISH FOR ENGINEERING

DISCOVERY PROJECTS

Учебно-методическое пособие по проведению проектных заданий по дисциплине «Иностранный язык»

для обучающихся по направлениям подготовки бакалавриата: 08.03.01 Строительство, профиль: Промышленное и гражданское строительство

Нижний Новгород ННГАСУ

2018

УДК 338

Пушкарева Е.А. English for Engineering: Discovery Projects [Электронный ресурс]: Учебно-

методическое пособие для студентов очного отделения первого курса, обучающихся по направлениям подготовки бакалавриата: 08.03.01 Строительство, профиль: Промышленное и гражданское строительство. – Нижегородский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет. – Н. Новгород: ННГАСУ, 2018. – 26 с. ил.1 электрон, опт, диск (CD-RW)

Цель пособия – формирование иноязычной коммуникативной компетенции в сфере профессиональной деятельности: способности решать стандартные коммуникативные задачи в сфере инженерии, выполнять поиск, анализ и оценку информации, а также работать с деловой документацией. Пособие позволяет развить универсальные компетенции – самостоятельность в учении, постановка целей и задач, творческое и критическое мышление, нахождение решения проблемы и др.

@ Е.А. Пушкарева, 2018 @ ННГАСУ, 2018

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1. English for engineers

Driving Question: Do you need an English Course?

Consider all sides of an issue in order to form and justify your opinion.

aDo the pro-con list:

a)Write down the outcomes of the decision that you believe are positive (Pros).

b)Write down the outcomes of the decision that are negative (Cons).

c)Add up the weights associated with your pro and con columns.

Learn more about the weighted pro-con list at http://leandecisions.com/2012/09/how-

to-create-an-effective-weighted-pro-con-list.html.

b Work in a group. Tell about your answers.

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c Summarize the results in the group. You can draw graphs and diagram.

d Write the short texts about the factors.

6 students believe that during the course they will work on their communication skills. Communication is an important life skill. Developing communication skills can help in all aspects of life, from professional life to social gatherings.

e Get acquainted with your shared digital workplace (wiki-page) at the university e- learning system or create your own.

f Publish texts and graphs.

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g Plan, practice, and deliver group presentation. Everyone in the group should say

something during the presentation.

hEvaluate the group work experience.

iCome up with three or more endings to the following sentence stems: "If I bring 5 percent more success to my university studies ..."

"If I bring 5 percent more sense of involvement to my university studies..." "If I bring 5 percent more confidence of my English skills ..."

"If I bring 5 percent more success to my English language development ..." "If I take more responsibility for fulfilling my wants ..."

2. Resolutions

Driving Question: What do you want to learn and to know during an English Course?

Form your opinions. a Complete the table.

bRead posts at the discussion site "Is knowing good English necessary for engineers?" https://www.quora.com/Is-knowing-good-English-necessary-for-engineers

cTake notes while reading:

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d To understand the meaning of words you don't know look them up in the dictionary.

https://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?l1=1&l2=2&a=0

https://www.merriam-webster.com

e Review the notes you took while completing the table and write resolutions. g Publish your results on your wiki-page and keep track of your learning. This term I’m going to ...

do extra grammar activities online in my spare time, [name] write regularly in my blog, [name]

do some extra pronunciation activities [name]

…

h Under each resolution, add how you think you can achieve the goal. Set a clear

deadline.

3. Bring your own learning

Driving Question: How to learn English?

There is a variety of different learning pathways. To create more options and flexibility in your learning explore the Internet for English learning.

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aRead the tong twisters.

1.Green glass globes glow greenly.

2.Knife and a fork, bottle and a cork, that is the way you spell New York.

3.If you understand, say ""understand"". If you don't

understand, say ""don't understand"". But if you understand and say ""don't understand"". how do I understand that you understand?

4. When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write.

http://www.download-esl.com/tonguetwisters/easy/easytongue.html

b Discuss the questions.

1.Is English easier or more difficult than the Russian language? Why and how?

2.How should foreign languages taught in high schools of engineering?

3.When you learn a foreign language, apart from the language what else do you learn about?

c What areas of the English language are necessary for the engineer and what are not. Make a list or graph.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/video/graphs-and-charts

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https://www.presentationprep.com/secret-to-success/

c. Find educational Internet resources that are suitable for your learning purposes (at least 3). https://tvkultura.ru/video/show/brand_id/14505/episode_id/.../video_id/114802/

d. Describe these resources.

d. Post results on the wiki-page.

e. Use discovered resources during your English course.

Extra

Which of the following learning strategies do you regularly use (the response to each item is ideally “yes”):

•I draw pictures, mind-maps, or diagrams to help me understand this subject.

•I make up questions that I try to answer about th is subject.

•I explore multiple possibilities and approaches for generating new concepts.

•When I am learning something new in this subject, I think back to what I already know about it.

•I discuss what I am doing in this subject with ot hers.

•I practice things over and over until I know them well in this subject.

•I think about my thinking, to check if I understand the ideas in this subject.

•I think about my mood, to get the most out of what I am studying.

•When I don’t understand something in this subject I go back over it again.

•I make a note of things that I don’t understand v ery well in this subject, so that I can follow them up.

•When I have finished an activity in this subject I look back to see how well I did.

•I organize my time to manage my learning in this subject.

•I make plans for how to do the activities in this subject.

•I always make sure I get lots of rewards.

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4. University forum

Driving Question: How to learn smarter?

Solve a problem: Give advice on problems during studying. There’s a real-world

difficulty with multiple solutions.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little “extra.”

Jimmy Johnson It does not matter where you go and what you study, what matters most is what you share with yourself and the world.

Santosh Kalwar

You lose 80% of all that you study when you cram.

Want to be happier? Learn something new.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Albert Einstein When you follow concrete tips based on how we actually learn, you’ll be amazed to see the changes within yourself, changes that can allow new passions to bloom. What you discover will help you be more effective and creative in almost everything you do.

Barbara Oakley

a Discuss the quotations.

∙What quotations do you find most interesting; most strange; most important?

∙What questions are raised by the quotations? (Make up at least 3).

∙What purposes do you want to achieve studying this topic?

∙What are you expecting to happen in this project?

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b Prepare a set of questions for the students from your university to find out what their student life looks like and what are some of the serious problems while studying.

Topics for discussion: Time Management - Syllabus Management - Note Taking -

Test Prep - Decision Making - Class Presentations - The key to happiness

https://www.bu.edu/erc/resources/faq_study_skills/

https://www.dailyshoring.com/flow-and-happiness/

c. Interview the students.

d.Work in a group. Tell about your answers.

e.Summarize the results in the group. You can draw graphs and diagram.

Make up a list of problems. Give own solutions to the problems you have identified. Use new information from the websites. https://www.daniel-wong.com/2015/08/17/study-smart/ http://www.mycollegesuccessstory.com/success-stories/EmilyB.html http://tereomaori.tki.org.nz/Teacher-tools/Te-Whakaipurangi-Rauemi/Examples-of- learner-strategies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O96fE1E-rf8 https://ru.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/lecture/KyGCI/the-value-of- teamwork

f Create a wiki-page with the texts and graphs.

g Prepare the presentation. Everyone in the group should say something.

http://englishplusplus.jcj.uj.edu.pl/presentation/phrases/

h Evaluate the project, completing self-assessment and peer-assessment forms. http://sutir.sut.ac.th:8080/sutir/bitstream/123456789/3424/18/18_Forms.pdf