- • Listening
- •Part b
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- • Writing
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 5
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8
- •Exercise 9
- •Exercise 10
- •Exercise 11
- •Part II Opinions on education Active vocabulary
- •The system in britain
- • Speaking
- • Speaking
- • Reading
- • Dialogue invention
- •Points of view
- • What do you think?
- • Conclusion
- •Part III Postsecondary Education: Admissions Active vocabulary
- • Speaking Choosing a university
- •Exercise 1
- • Predictions
- •Vocabulary and key concepts
- • Listening
- • Postlistening
- • Speaking How similar is higher education in our country? Answer these questions. Compare your answers with someone else’s in your group.
- • Writing and speaking
- •Active vocabulary
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2 Translate into English
- • Reading Six rules for coping with exam stress.
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •It is interesting to know
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Part IV
- • Reading How Ruth made history at Oxford
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 5 Fill in:
- •Exercise 6
- •Child's play Speaking
- • Listening
- • Listening
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- • Listening
- •Exercise 3
- •Learning to learn Active vocabulary
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 1
- • Reading
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- • Speaking
- •2. The author of the text says that students should get into the habit of studying in the library. What other habits do you think students should get into?
- •Part VI a freshman’s experience Active vocabulary
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 9
- •Exercise 10
- •Exercise 11
- •Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13
- •Exercise 14
- •Exercise 15
- •Exercise 16
- • Writing
- •Exercise 17
- •Exercise 18
- •University Life Pre-listening Activities
- •Notetaking Preparation
- • Listening
- • Postlistening Activities
- • Speaking
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- • Reading and speaking
- •Exercise 5
Speaking
Studies indicate that people like to learn differently. Some people learn better by listening, while others need to see the information. Your answers to the questions below may give you some idea of how you prefer to learn. When you have answered them, compare your answers with those of other people in your class.
I prefer to learn by listening to the teacher’s lecture. (Yes or no)
I prefer to learn by reading and studying my texts. (Yes or no)
I prefer to learn by studying or working with other people. (Yes or no)
I prefer to study by myself. (Yes or no)
I like to ask the teacher questions.(Yes or no)
When I study for a test, I
a. read my notes.
b. say my notes aloud.
c. rewrite my notes.
I remember best
a. smells
b. tastes
c. sounds
d. sights
e. touches
If I received as a gift a machine with many buttons on it, I would
a. read the directions first.
b. play with the buttons first.
c. ask someone to show me how it works.
I like to
a. memorize facts.
b. think about ideas.
This is how people are taught in my culture. (Explain.)
Exercise 1
You will read a text about places to study. Look at the following list of words. Check their meaning in a dictionary and practice saying them. Which words do you think you will meet? Why? Discuss your answers with the students.
auditory bus carrel(s) clean efficiency |
comfortable quiet concentrate conditions learn |
orderly desks preferences variety
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tables music library noise
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Reading
Read the text and find the sentences with the words from the above exercise. Find Ukrainian equivalents to these sentences.
Well, I don't know. I think the best place to study is where you learn best. And we're all different and we all might disagree on it on the particulars. I had a friend one time who studied best, I swear to God, he studied best underneath the blanket with a flashlight. And he was a top student. I can't explain. But really if you're talking in general, what's the best way to study? What's the best place to study? It's the one ‘without distractions'. Now, ‘without distractions’ means a lot of things. It means, for example, it has to be quiet. That's no auditory distractions. Now that might not apply to you. You might be able to put your Walkman on and study just fine, but I can't do that because my auditory sense and my hearing are very sensitive and I easily get distracted. And as for me the best place to study is the one that's quiet. Another thing that it has to be, I think, it has to be clean. It has to be a place that doesn't have a whole lot of sight distractions. Like if I'm trying to study in a room with the television set on, that's not a clean environment. I've got these things that I'm always looking at. Even if I've got the volume way down, so it doesn't distract me in terms of my hearing, still it's distracting my eyes. If I set my desk in front of a window so that I can see what's going on the other side of that window, I don't study. If I try to study when I've got a whole bunch of things on my desk, then I start reading the labels on the books and I start doing everything except studying. So I think it really has to be a clean environment. Third thing, I think a good place to study has to be comfortable. If you get a place that's too cold, you're putting your energy into trying to keep warm. You're not putting your energy into thinking. And if you get a place that's too hot, you're going to sleep. You can't concentrate. And so it has to be basically a comfortable place, not too cold, not too hot. And it's got to be a clean place. That's no sight distractions. And it's got to be a quiet place. That's no auditory distractions. And if I think in terms of a college, I think "Well, that really means a carrel in the library." If you haven't taken a look at those, by all means do. It's an absolutely beautiful place to study. It's a place where it's quiet and there aren't any visual distractions and it's comfortable. The temperature is always right. If you get into the habit of studying there, then whenever you sit down in one of those carrels, you're ready in your mind to study. For me, that's the best place to study.