Иноязычная профессиональная коммуникация. Практикум

In the video at http://www.ted.com/talks/erik_schlangen_a_self_healing_asphalt you will see a new technology to “heal” an asphalt road. While watching, complete the Table 7.

Table 7

5.3.4 Follow-up discussion

Do you know any other technologies to “heal” an asphalt road? What are their advantages

and disadvantages?

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6 Entertainment

Unit 16

6.1 A story of mixed emoticons

6.1.1 Before you watch

Note: Emoticon is an image made of keyboard letters and symbols used in text messages and emails to express emotions.

Discuss the questions below.

a.Do you use emoticons in your everyday life?

b.Which ones do you most frequently use? What is their meaning?

c.Do you think emoticons are good as they save time and make communication easy and quick or they are evil as they substitute the beauty of the verbal language?

In the video at http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_tells_a_story_of_mixed_emoticons an artist Rives tells a story with the help of emoticons. Try to guess the meaning of some emoticons he uses.

a.0}-<

b.Q<=

c.omg!

d.yllam...

e.“_ _ _”

f.:(-)

g.}(i){

h.“no thx...

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6.1.2 While watching

Now watch the video and check your guesses.

6.1.3 Comprehensions

Retell the story told by the speaker with the help of emoticons. Watch the video again if needed.

6.1.4 Follow up

Together with another student create a sentence using emoticons. Give it to other students to decode.

6.2 Unit 17

Finding the story inside the painting

6.2.1 Before you watch

Do you like painting? What genres do you like most: history genre, portraits, genre painting, landscape, still life? Do you have any favorite painters or paintings? What country and epoch do they belong to? Why do you like them? Can you paint yourself? Do you visit art galleries? Do you enjoy these visits?

6.2.2 Vocabulary

Find pairs of synonyms. What is their meaning?

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6.2.3While watching

In the video you are going to watch Tracy Chevalier, an American novelist, opens a secret how to enjoy paintings – create stories behind them. She will tell you 3 stories inspired by famous paintings, including the one that led to her best-seller “Girl with Pearl Earring”. http://www.ted.com/talks/tracy_chevalier_finding_the_story_inside_the_painting?languag e=en#t-502054

1)Watch the first part of the video (0:11 – 02:30) and answer the questions:

a)What feelings does Tracy Chevalier have when visiting in an art gallery?

b)What similarities she gives between the visit to an art gallery and the visit to a restaurant or a department store?

c)What are the two things she does to enjoy the visit to an art gallery?

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2)Watch the second part of the video (03:02 – 07:46 ) about Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl

with the Pearl Earring” painting and choose which of the statements are True:

a)The painting keeps Tracy’s interest for many years because of color and light;

b)The painting is the portrait of a girl;

c)Vermeer painted ladies in his wife’s clothes;

d)The girl on the painting is Vermeer’s wife;

3) Watch the third part of the video (07:46 – 09.27) about Chardin’s “Boy building a House of Cards” and choose which of the statements are True:

a)Chardin, a 18th century French painter was best known for his portraits;

b)There are several versions of this painting;

c)The boy looks both innocent and experienced;

d)The boy is super focused on what he is doing;

4) Watch the forth part of the video (09:52 ) about a Tudor portrait kept in the National Portrait Gallery in London and choose which of the statements are True :

a)There is the disconnection between the smiling mouth and thoughtful eyes on the face of the Anonymous;

b)The Anonymous looks pale;

c)His clothes resemble a duvet spread over the bed;

6.2.4 Comprehension

Look at the portrait of “Poor Liza” by Russian painter Orast Kiprenskiy and try to create a

story. Be ready to share it with the other students.

6.3 Unit 18

Remember to say thank you

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6.3.1 Vocabulary

How many of these words do you know? Consult your dictionary if needed.

1)genuine, specific, shy, core;

2)interested, embarrassed;

3)to investigate, to block, to neglect, to abuse, to true;

4)praise, breadwinner, chores, rehab facility, wheels. Now choose any five and make sentences with them.

6.3.2 Before you watch

Discuss the questions below.

1)How many times a day do you say “Thank you”? What are the most typical

situations? Who do you usually say this phrase to?

2)How many times a day do you hear “Thank you”?

3)Do other people or you miss to say “Thank you” sometimes? What are the reasons?

6.3.3 While watching

In the video at http://www.ted.com/talks/laura_trice_suggests_we_all_say_thank_you Laura Trice, a therapist and life coach muses on the magic power of words “Thank you!”

While watching the video, circle all the cases she mentions worth saying “Thank you!”

Together with your partner continue the list with at least three more examples.

a)When someone praises you

b)When someone is proud of you

c)When you don’t know something

d)When you are a breadwinner for your family

e)When you stay out of work

f)When you take care of somebody

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g)When you do your cores

h)When you neglect somebody or something

i)When somebody does some service to you

j)When you need somebody’s help

k)When you are a great husband, mother, friend, son, etc.

l)When you have done some good job

m)

n)

o)

6.3.4 Discussion

Remember and describe your life experience when you were really thankful to someone for something. The following questions may help you to make a story:

When and where did it happen? What did another person do for you? Why was this help important for you? Did it change your life for the better? What words or deeds did you use to say “Thank you!”

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Transcripts

Richard St. John 8 secrets to success

0:11 This is really a two-hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes. And it all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED, seven years ago. And in the seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family. And she wanted to make something of her life, and she asked me a simple little question. She said, “What leads to success?” And I felt really badly, because I couldn't give her a good answer. So I get off the plane, and I come to TED. And I think, jeez, I’m in the middle of a room of successful people! So why don’t I ask them what helped them succeed, and pass it on to kids?

0:47 So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I’m going to tell you what really leads to success and makes TEDsters tick. And the first thing is passion. Freeman Thomas says, “I'm driven by my passion”. TEDsters do it for love; they don’t do it for money.

1:04 Carol Coletta says, “I would pay someone to do what I do”. And the interesting thing is: if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.

1:11 Work! Rupert Murdoch said to me, “It's all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But I have a lot of fun”. Did he say fun? Rupert? Yes! (Laughter)

1:22 TEDsters do have fun working. And they work hard. I figured, they’re not workaholics. They’re workafrolics. (Laughter)

1:29 Good! (Applause) Alex Garden says, “To be successful, put your nose down in something and get damn good at it”. There’s no magic; it’s practice, practice, practice. 1:39 And it’s focus. Norman Jewison said to me, “I think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing”.

1:45 And push! David Gallo says, “Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you’ve got to push, push, push”. You’ve got to push through shyness and self-doubt.

1:54 Goldie Hawn says, “I always had self-doubts. I wasn’t good enough; I wasn’t smart enough. I didn’t think I’d make it”.

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2:01 Now it’s not always easy to push yourself, and that’s why they invented mothers. (Laughter) (Applause) Frank Gehry said to me, ‘My mother pushed me”. (Laughter)

2:13 Serve! Sherwin Nuland says, “It was a privilege to serve as a doctor”.

2:19 A lot of kids want to be millionaires. The first thing I say is: ‘OK, well you can’t serve yourself; you’ve got to serve others something of value. Because that’s the way people really get rich”.

2:30 Ideas! TEDster Bill Gates says, “I had an idea: founding the first micro-computer software company”. I’d say it was a pretty good idea. And there’s no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas – it’s just doing some very simple things. And I give lots of evidence.

2:46 Persist! Joe Kraus says, “Persistence is the number one reason for our success”. You’ve got to persist through failure. You’ve got to persist through crap! Which of course means “Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure”. (Laughter)

3:01 So, the answer to this question is simple: Pay 4,000 bucks and come to TED. (Laughter) Or failing that, do the eight things – and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success. Thank you TEDsters for all your interviews! (Applause)

Michael Norton: How to buy happiness

0:11 So I want to talk today about money and happiness, which are two things that a lot of us spend a lot of our time thinking about, either trying to earn them or trying to increase them. And a lot of us resonate with this phrase. So we see it in religions and self-help books, that money can’t buy happiness. And I want to suggest today that, in fact, that’s wrong. (Laughter) I’m at a business school, so that’s what we do. So that’s wrong, and, in fact, if you think that, you’re actually just not spending it right. So that instead of spending it the way you usually spend it, maybe if you spent it differently, that might work a little bit better. And before I tell you the ways that you can spend it that will make you happier, let’s think about the ways we usually spend it that don’t, in fact, make us happier. We had a little natural experiment. So CNN, a little while ago, wrote this interesting article on what happens to people when they win the lottery. It turns out people think when they win

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the lottery their lives are going to be amazing. This article’s about how their lives get ruined. So what happens when people win the lottery is, number one, they spend all the money and go into debt, and number two, all of their friends and everyone they’ve ever met find them and bug them for money. And it ruins their social relationships, in fact. So they have more debt and worse friendships than they had before they won the lottery. What was interesting about the article was people started commenting on the article, readers of the thing. And instead of talking about how it had made them realize that money doesn’t lead to happiness, everyone instantly started saying, “You know what I would do if I won the lottery?” and fantasizing about what they’d do. And here’s just two of the ones we saw that are just really interesting to think about. One person wrote in, ‘When I win, I’m going to buy my own little mountain and have a little house on top”. (Laughter) And another person wrote, “I would fill a big bathtub with money and get in the tub while smoking a big fat cigar and sipping a glass of champagne”. This is even worse now: “Then I'd have a picture taken and dozens of glossies made. Anyone begging for money or trying to extort from me would receive a copy of the picture and nothing else”. (Laughter) And so many of the comments were exactly of this type, where people got money and, in fact, it made them antisocial. So I told you that it ruins people’s lives and that their friends bug them. It also, money often makes us feel very selfish and we do things only for ourselves. Well maybe the reason that money doesn’t make us happy is that we’re always spending it on the wrong things, and in particular, that we’re always spending it on ourselves. And we thought, I wonder what would happen if we made people spend more of their money on other people. So instead of being antisocial with your money, what if you were a little more prosocial with your money? And we thought, let’s make people do it and see what happens. So let’s have some people do what they usually do and spend money on themselves, and let’s make some people give money away, and measure their happiness and see if, in fact, they get happier. So the first way that we did this. On one Vancouver morning, we went out on the campus at University of British Columbia and we approached people and said, ‘Do you want to be in an experiment?” They said, “Yes”. We asked them how happy they were, and then we gave them an envelope. And one of the envelopes had things in it that said, “By 5:00 pm today, spend this money on yourself”. So

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