- •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
Practice
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Match two halves to make sentences.
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Get real |
What do you or your friends usually do with your old electronic devices? Ask your fellow students, teachers and parents what they would do with their computers when they don’t meet their needs. Take notes of the answers and report back on 10 most popular ideas.
Tool box: Expressing opinion In our opinion … First of all, …/ Then, …/Next, … Moreover, … Furthermore, … The greatest advantage of … The disadvantage of this way is that … To sum up, … In conclusion … |
Speaking |
Work in groups of 4-5. Suggest and discuss any other means that can reduce hazardous effect of the computer revolution. Share your ideas with the rest of the class. Explain pros and cons of the suggested solutions.
Listening |
Recording 5.2
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Listen to the interview with an electronic waste expert John Shegerian and take notes to answer these questions.
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What is “electronic waste” (e-waste)?
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Why is e-waste a growing concern?
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Why should I recycle my e-waste?
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How much of the solid waste in landfills is e-waste?
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Is it illegal to dispose of computers in the trash?
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How long has e-waste recycling been around?
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Who started the e-waste recycling movement?
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What percentage of electronics today is being recycled properly?
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Listen to the interview again and fill in the notes.
Electronic waste is the …1………………… stream in the world. It includes everything electronic: from our …2………., to our …3…….., to …4……….. and …5…………., …6……………, and our …7…….. and …8…………… . Everything electronic encompasses …9…………… . E-waste has lots of …10…………………………… and …11………………….. in it, such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and beryllium. If these items …12…………………………, and then leech into our ground and water supplies, they tend to …13………………………….. to the point where it is then ingested by a human being or animals. We want …14………………… that. …
We should recycle e-waste because …15…………………………. You get back to an appropriate …16…………. or …17………………. who will demount the factors of the materials to …18……………, …19…………….. and …20…………………… . Also, everything in your cell phone or your television set is …21……………….., and reuses the essence of …22…………………. . …
In California, for example, today it's …23……………….. to throw out your computers or e-waste into the …24…………….. . Other states and other countries are yet …25…………………… California's leading recycling laws. …
It's …26………….. who really started the e-waste recycling movement, but there's lots of …27…………………………… out there that saw what was coming and saw the growing trend with technology and the fast turnover that we have now with technology. At the international level, e-waste recycling has been around, …28……………., when Switzerland and some European countries started passing initiatives. …
In California, they …29………….the landmark SB 20 law in …30……….. That law just got …31………….on January 1, 2005. So e-waste as we know it in the United States is a growing trend that has …32…………………… only since …33…………, and …34……………….. since …35……….. .
Reading |
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The verbs in A are in the text you are going to listen. Match a verb in A with a definition in B.
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Managing your learning The process diagrammes or flowcharts allow you to visually represent methods, processes, steps, or stages that describe how events occur. |
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Read the text on the work of electronic waste recycling and complete the diagramme of the recycling process.
How E-Waste Recycling Works
Get real |
Search home pages of the leading computer companies and environment websites
to get more information on possible solutions to e-waste problem. Report back to the class and discuss what you have found.
Writing |
You are planning to buy a new computer but don’t know what to do with the old one. Write an e-mail message to one of the electronic equipment manufacturers asking for information on company’s takeback policies.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I am mailing this via the “Contact Us” link on your website to (1) ………………… ….………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………... .
I bought my old PC (2) ………………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………………………………. …………………………………………………………………………………………... . Could you give me more information about (3)………………………………………. ……………………………………………………………………………………………. …………………………………………………………………………………………... . I hope you will (4) ……………………………………………………………………
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours faithfully, (5)…………………… |
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explain the purpose of your e-mail
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provide basic information on your PC and its components, when and where you bought it, decide whether they are still working or not
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ask for information on the items the company takes back, delivery, package and prices
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express your gratitude for the help
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sign the letter
In the Realm of Science |
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Check the pronunciation and the meaning of the words below. Which of them are chemical elements? Which are compounds? Write down the symbols for the elements and formulas for the compounds.
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Work in pairs. Take turns to read and note down these elements and compounds:
Student A: Si N P C Cd Al
Student B: S H O Na Li Zn
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Read the song “The Elements” by Tom Lehrer. Do you know equivalents in your native language to the elements named in the song?
There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.
There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium, platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There’s sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, cobalt, carbon, copper,
Tungsten, tin and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others but they haven’t been discovered.
(Listen to it at http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/activities/sciencehits/)
Unit 2 Progress Monitoring In this unit you have worked on the following vocabulary related to the topic “Negative influence of electronic equipment on the environment”
Tick (V) the points you are confident about and cross (X) the ones you need to revise. |