- •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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Answer the questions.
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What types of web pages are described in the text?
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What goals do the web page owners have in mind?
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What criteria can be used to evaluate the information on the page?
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What kind of information can you learn from an Internet address?
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Find in the text what the following name extensions mean.
a) .com b) .edu c) .gov d) .org e) .name
Now match the following suggestions for new extensions to their meanings.
.info - military
.museum - business
.biz - web-related
.web - firm/agency
.firm - museums
.mil - informative/ general use
Focus on language
1. Fill in the sentences with the prepositions if necessary. The text you have read may be of help.
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The main idea behind the WWW is to make as much information as possible available … anyone.
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Nowadays more people have easy access … to the Internet resources.
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The abbreviation HTML stands … HyperText Markup Language.
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You can use this form to look … the pages of Popular Science magazine.
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Finally, they put … the idea that nowadays we are getting more and more dependent on the Internet for information.
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Before using information you have up gather evidence … its accuracy
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News Web pages provide their visitors … the most up-to-date information.
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The 5-week WWW search course ended … a project work.
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This small interest group will be very difficult to influence … public opinion.
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Anyone can put anything … the Web for pennies in just a few minutes.
2. Look back in the text and find words and phrases that have similar meaning. Example: point and press - click
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connect
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look for
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assess
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extremely
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duplicate
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partner
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organization with no income
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to invest time
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to create a web page
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check twice
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to support some points of view or an idea
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to read and correct
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trustworthy
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point to
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main
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Within 1 minute complete the word web below with as many adjectives as possible.
Project work |
“The World Wide Web: the battle for your mind at your fingertips”
To achieve good results in studies it is important to have the ability to search and find relevant information and evaluate its quality.
You are members of team which is formed to work out the guidelines for
evaluating Web pages. The aim of the team is to help your fellow students to use the Internet resources for information retrieval.
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Work in groups of 5-6. Within your groups divide into pairs and conduct research on the types of Web pages and their purposes; criteria for evaluation; search strategies/techniques and recommendations.
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Managing your learning
When you present your oral reports, follow this procedure:
a) one student introduces the group and gives an introduction to the work conducted by the group; b) the next few students present one or two of the points and some interesting comments;
c) the last student concludes the presentation by summarizing and interpreting the information, e.g.: It surprised us to learn that …).
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Prepare an oral presentation of your work. Be sure to include an introduction to the problem and a conclusion. Make use of the Managing your learning box.
In the Realm of Science |
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In the Internet and the WWW as well as in many other spheres of our life
there are a great number of symbols. Read and remember:
+ plus
- minus
~ tilde
% per cent
“” quotation marks
‘ apostrophe
: colon
* asterisk
() brackets
# lattice
@ at
& and
/ slash
. dot
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Read and remember some of the frequently used computer terms and abbreviations. What do they mean?
Account |
Directory |
Icon |
Online/offline |
Troubleshooter |
Algorithm |
Domain |
Interface |
Password |
Undo |
Avatar |
DTP |
Intranet |
PDA |
Update |
Bookmark |
Edutainment |
Hypermedia |
Reboot |
Virtual reality |
Buffer |
Emoticon |
Java Script |
Sign up |
Virus-check |
Browser |
Ethernet |
Mail server |
Site map |
Webmaster |
Cookies |
FAQ |
Malware |
Spyware |
Wi-Fi |
Cybercrime |
Freeware |
Network |
Template |
Wordprocessor |
Unit 1. Progress Monitoring In this unit you have worked on the vocabulary related to the topic “Information search”
Tick (V) the points you are confident about and cross (X) the ones you need to revise. |