- •О.И. Сафроненко, к.С.Петросян, с.Ю. Резникова learning to learn in english
- •Методическая записка
- •Contents
- •Unit 1 Learn How to Learn
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on Language
- •Focus on language
- •What do you think?
- •Keep learning? Keep earning!
- •Comprehension check
- •What do you think?
- •Unit 2 Study Smart, Not Hard
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on language
- •What do you think?
- •What are effective study habits?
- •Focus on language
- •Practice
- •Unit 3 Revise & Practise
- •Progress Test
- •Unit 1 Making the Choice of Your Life
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on Language
- •First degree courses in the uk
- •Comprehension check
- •What do you think?
- •Unit 2 Your Personal Science Odyssey
- •What do you think?
- •Comprehension check
- •Focus on Language
- •Practice
- •Unit 3 Revise & Practise
- •Game “Why physics or math, etc.?”
- •Progress Test
- •Unit 1 Secret of Success
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on language
- •Practice
- •Thinking about what we have found!
- •Comprehension check
- •Focus on language
- •“The World Wide Web: the battle for your mind at your fingertips”
- •Unit 2 Hunting for Treasures
- •Comprehension check
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on Language
- •Practice
- •Technology and Libraries
- •Comprehension check
- •What do you think?
- •Unit 3 Revise & Practise
- •Progress Test
- •Unit 1 Scientific Milestones
- •Metric system telescope compass thermometer microscope
- •Comprehension check
- •Focus on Language
- •Practice
- •Practice
- •Invention /discovery
- •Unexpected Discoveries
- •Comprehension check
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on language
- •Practice
- •What do you think?
- •Unit 2 Scientific Revolution
- •Breakthroughs of the 20th century
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on language
- •Verb Suffixes
- •Practice
- •What do you think?
- •Unit 3 Revise & Practise
- •Progress Test
- •Rules of the Lab
- •Unit 1 Global Issues
- •Comprehension check
- •Focus on language
- •Practice
- •Practice
- •What do you think?
- •Global Warming: Facts vs. Myths myths:
- •Comprehension check
- •Focus on language
- •Practice
- •Comprehension check
- •Focus on Language
- •Work in teams of 3. Make as many words as possible using the prefixes re-, dis-, over-, sub-, en-, up- . Compare as a class.
- •Practice
- •Unit 3 Revise & Practise
- •Progress Test
- •Unit 1 The 20th Century and Beyond
- •Science for the Twenty-First Century
- •Focus on language
- •Practice
- •As old as writing
- •What do you think?
- •Unit 2 Into the Future
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on the language
- •Practice
- •Practice
- •What do you think?
- •Unit 3 Revise & Practise
- •Progress Test
- •Unit 1 Job Opportunities for Students
- •Part-time Jobs vs. Holiday Jobs
- •Comprehension check
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on language
- •Practice
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on language
- •Unit 2 On the Job
- •What do you think?
- •Focus on language
- •Practice
- •What can I do with a Science degree?
- •What do you think?
- •Unit 3 Revise & Practise
- •Progress Test
- •Scripts Module 1 Unit 1 Five New Year's Resolutions for English Learners
- •Module 1 Unit 2
- •Module 2 Unit 1 a Look at Washington University
- •Module 2 Unit 1
- •Module 3 Unit 1
- •Module 3 Unit 2 Website of the Week — Universal Digital Library
- •Module 4 Unit 1
- •Module 4 Unit2 The Discoveries Behind This Year's Nobel Prizes for Science
- •Module 5 Unit 1 Cities Around the World Are 'Going Green'
- •Module 5 Unit 2 Electronic Waste
- •Is it illegal to dispose of computers in the trash?
- •Module 6 Unit 1 Scientists Receive National Medals of Science and Technology
- •Module 6 Unit 2
- •Module 7 Unit 1 Job Centre
- •Module 7 Unit 2
- •Interns Provide Free Labor, But Internships Are Not Always Free
- •Keys Module 1 Unit 1
- •Module 1 Unit 2
- •In the Realm of Science 1
- •Module 1 Unit 3
- •Module 2 Unit 1
- •Module 2 Unit 2
- •Module 2 Unit 3
- •Модуль 3 Unit 1
- •Module 3 Unit 2
- •Module 3 Unit 3
- •Module 4 Unit 1
- •Module 4 Unit 2
- •In the Realm of Science 2
- •In the Realm of Science 3
- •Module 4 Unit 3
- •Module 5 Unit 1
- •Module 5 Unit 2
- •Module 5 Unit 3
- •Module 6 Unit 1
- •In the Realm of Science 1
- •Module 6 Unit 2
- •Module 6 Unit 3
- •Module 7 Unit 1
- •Module 7 Unit 2
- •Module 7 Unit 3
- •List of materials used
- •Part-time Jobs vs. Holiday Jobs// Retrieved from e4s:co uk http://www.E4s.Co.Uk/docs/part-time-jobs.Htm
- •Internet recourses
Comprehension check
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Read the text more carefully and answer the questions.
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How many departments are involved in training students in the Combined Science course?
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Who may find this course most attractive?
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Does the combined course provide any particular career opportunities? What are they?
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How many natural sciences can a student take?
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Who can help students to make the right choice of the subjects?
Focus on Language
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Managing your learning
We remember new words much more easily if we think about them in relation to our own experience and if they have some personal meaning for us.
item on the right to make a commonly used phrase in English. Insert prepositions where necessary. Look through the text, it can be of help.
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specialized
current
wide
personal
barriers
wide range
programme
provide
academic
forward
mature
of
between
study
requirements
subjects
excellence
choice
education
student
thinking
interest
a means of
areas
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Read the sentences below and study the models in the box.
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About one-third of the first year is based on course work.
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A number of our graduates have taken up PhD studies.
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Subject and verb agreement
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Singular expression +plural noun/pronoun+ plural verb
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+ plural noun + singular verb
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Some of + singular noun+ singular verb
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Some of + plural noun+ plural verb
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Plural expressions: + singular verb
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a number of + plural noun + plural verb
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the number of + plural noun + singular verb
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Practice
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Match the sentences below with the right model in the box. Translate the sentences into Russian.
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A number of applicants have already been interviewed.
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The number of students in the class is twelve.
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Some of the book is good.
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Some of the books are good.
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One of my friends has got a grant for his research project.
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Thirty minutes isn’t enough time to finish this test.
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A lot of social problems are caused by unemployment.
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Economics is George’s favorite subject.
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More than one person is going to take up a course in programming.
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Two thirds of money is mine.
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The USA is smaller than Russia.
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Choose the correct form of the verb.
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Surveys show that the majority of school leavers (consider/considers) a
university degree a good starting point for their future career.
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Look! Half of the map (is/are) missing. We need another map!
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Each of the students (has/have) a notebook.
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A number of students in the class (speaks/speak) English very well.
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Why (was/were) some of the students absent from classes?
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What percentage of the people in the world (is/are) illiterate?
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My teenage brother thinks there (is/are) a number of good reasons for staying up late and having a good time.
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Statistics (is/are) a branch of mathematics.
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A lot of students clubs (is/are) opening these days.
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More than one computer in this lab (has/have) broken down.
Speaking |
Work in groups. Look through the scheme of the degree course in Combined Science offered in Lancaster University. Design a modular degree course that suits your particular needs and interests.
Writing |
Write a paragraph about the modular course in Combined Science you would like to do. Give reasons for your choice of Themes from each group.
In the Realm of Science |
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Read the expressions for fractions, decimals and percentages:
one half, a half
one third
four seventh
3 three and a quarter
0.2 nought point two
(zero) point two
0,75 nought point seven five
point seven five
25,34 twenty-five point three four
two five point three four
1% one percent
78% seventy eight percent
90% ninety percent
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Work in pairs, A and B. Take turns to read and write down decimals,
percentages and fractions you hear.
Student A: 7.5 85.3% ¾ 70% 2½ 18.03
Student B: 3.68 34.9% ⅔ 90% 14 ⅛ 13.75
Unit 2. Progress Monitoring In this Unit you have worked on the vocabulary related to the topic “Higher education”:
Tick (V) the points you are confident about and cross (X) the ones you need to revise. |