- •Балаценко л.М.
- •Contents
- •Передмова
- •Theme: Learning and Teaching Styles
- •Text 1 managing your study time
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Text 2 how I got my first-class degree
- •What does it take to graduate from university with a First?
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Text 3 how to be a good learner (a gapped text)
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- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Text 4 my lessons in the classroom
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •If necessary, write down your answers to the questions.
- •Text 5 allowing for thinking styles
- •I'm Oligarchic, You're Oligarchic
- •Ibm Professor of Psychology and Education
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Text 6 applying multiple intelligences theory (Abridged)
- •Implications of Ml theory for foreign language education
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Text 7 a fresh look at the classroom
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Text 9 a tale of two teachers
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Insisting
- •Text 10 teaching with a magic touch
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •Introducing a listening activity
- •Introducing a reading activity
- •Introducing a writing activity
- •Introducing a true/false activity
- •Introducing a gap-filling activity
- •Introducing a discussion activity
- •І. Word Formation
- •My Child’s a Genius!
- •Improve Your Child’s Mind
- •І. Idioms
- •Expectation fortune pressure world undone strike useful force light realise
- •3. Expressions with do
- •І. Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses
- •Іі. Stative Verbs
- •In each sentence, write the correct form of the verb. Explain the differences in meaning between the simple and continuous forms of the verbs.
- •Continuous Aspect
- •Іі. Modal Verbs
- •I. Fill in the blanks below using these phrases and a suitable form of the verbs in the brackets. The first one has been done as an example.
- •In order to learn to write a summary you should do all the activities.
- •I. In pairs or small groups, discuss the following questions.
- •II. Read the texts about reading skills and do the assignments that follow.
- •Informal letters
- •It's a student's life
- •In order to write a good article you should remember the following:
- •Vocabulary in use
- •How to Be a Successful Learner.
- •What Is the Cost of Genius?
- •The Brain and Intelligence
- •Reference literature
- •For Notes For Notes
- •Learning and Teaching Styles Навчаючи вчимося
- •40002, М. Суми, вул. Роменська, 87
Vocabulary Practice
A The following words and word combinations appear in the text. Explain their meaning using a dictionary.
to bend the lecturer’s ears to have a flair for
to internalize the material to get to grips with smth
to be married with to volunteer for smth
elusive overstretched libraries
intangible to get pointers
B Write out the information about a) deeper-level students;
b) surface-level learners.
Text Comprehension
Complete the sentences referring to the article.
The initial euphoria of finding that you’ve got only 12 lectures a week…
Suddenly it’s up to you to decide…
You should ask yourself am…
Note-taking may also reinforce…
…obtaining books is likely…
…in which she grouped students as…
You need to find the most relevant books; …
Researchers at Lancaster University…
Critical Reading
Comment on the following statements taken from the article.
Lecturers will toss around conflicting ideas and a bewildering array of interpretations, where school teachers would lead you comfortingly through the syllabus.
Ms Crookes says: “You need to ask yourself why you are taking notes. They should be a complement to listening to the lecture, recording the most important points, not a substitute for listening.”
Tutorials and seminars provide the opportunity to get to grips with fundamental ideas, question and try out ideas that you could use in essays.
Presentations are a very good way of reinforcing what you have learnt.
Effective reading is the key to success to both essay writing and exam performance and it starts with identifying clearly the question you are trying to answer.
You need to recognize there are 168 hours in a week and that you can work hard, play hard and relax in that time. It’s a question of how to balance your use of time to get the full potential out of it.
Talking Points
You want to know your friend’s opinion on the question: How to become a good learner? Work in pairs and make notes on the issue. Compare your notes with another pair, comment on them and make sure you have only noted down the relevant information.
The following useful language may come handy.
Asking for Clarification
I don’t quite follow you. Do you mean…?
I’m not quite with you. Are you saying …?
What do you mean by that exactly?
I don’t get it. Can you run me through it once again?
You’ve lost me. Can we go back a little?
Care to explain?
What are you driving at?
Would you like to elaborate?
Offering Clarification
OK, there’s the thinking behind it…
What I’m actually saying is…
Here’s what I mean: …
My point is…
Acknowledging Clarification
I see (what you mean).
Ah. Right.
Fair enough.
I see what you are getting at.
I see where you are coming from.
Creative Writing
Read the rubric below and do the assignment.
You recently passed examination after a great deal of hard work and were unpleasantly surprised to read in the national newspaper that learning standards are failing. Passing an exam has become an easy thing: students need neither the hard work nor the luck – they just have to turn up and they will pass.
You have now decided to write to the editor of the newspaper expressing your views detailing what you have to do in order to achieve your success. (Use the Thematic Vocabulary).
Test Your Knowledge of Vocabulary
Translate the situation into English cramming it with the Thematic Vocabulary.
Я ніколи не вважала, що вивчаю учбовий матеріал поверхово. Я завжди прагнула добре запам’ятати матеріал не тільки шляхом поглиблення в деталі, але й вивчаючи основні принципи, приводячи їх у відповідність із своїми поглядами та переконаннями.
Озираючись на роки, проведені в університеті, я можу впевнено сказати, що вони ніколи не були для мене чимось невловимим і незрозумілим. Хоча інколи мене й охоплювало відчуття паніки, яке зявлялось під час контрольних робіт і екзаменів, але я все рівно була впевнена в позитивному результаті. Моя впевненість була результатом уміння успішно справлятися з учбовим матеріалом.
Не дивлячись на те, що викладачі мали звичку підкидати нам проблемні питання та їх численні трактування, які спантеличували, я завжди прагнула розпізнати й відібрати тільки головне. Я не сподівалась, що мені підкажуть на екзамені, або що зможу заговорити викладачеві зуби. Тому з самого початку я добровільно взялася за розробку стратегії успішного навчання, щоб тримати баланс свого особистого часу й повністю використовувати його потенціал, і не тільки під час вивчення складних навчальних предметів, але й тих, до яких у мене був хист. Крім того я навчилася доцільно використовувати лекції: розробила спосіб стисло занотовувати матеріал як доповнення до слухання, а не його заміну; взяла за звичку перечитувати конспекти лекцій, підкреслюючи основні тези, і робити висновки.
Я вважаю, що досягла успіхів, головним чином, завдяки вмінню організувати свою навчальну діяльність.