- •Южный федеральный университет о. И. Сафроненко
- •Southern Federal University
- •Предисловие
- •Contents
- •In this module you will
- •Focus on Language
- •Keep learning? Keep earning!
- •What are effective study habits?
- •In this module you will
- •Focus on Language
- •In this module you will
- •Starting Your Haunt of Treasures
- •“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.” Shelby Foote
- •In this module you will
- •Unexpected Discoveries
- •Metric system microscope thermometer telescope
- •Invention /discovery
- •Breakthroughs of the 20th century
- •Verb Suffixes
- •Inventor
- •Double-edged sword
- •Learning Objectives
- •In this module you will
- •Discuss
- •Environmental Hazards of the Computer Revolution
- •Work in teams of three. Make as many words as possible using the prefixes re-, dis-, over-, sub-, en-, up- . Compare as a class.
- •The advent of “green” computer design
- •Learning Objectives
- •In this module you will
- •Science for the Twenty-First Century
- •Discuss
- •Learning Objectives
- •In this module you will:
- •Part-time Jobs vs. Holiday Jobs
- •Scripts Module 1 Unit 1
- •Module 1 Unit 2
- •Module 2 Unit 1
- •Module 2 Unit 2
- •Module 3 Unit 1
- •Module 3 Unit 2
- •Module 4 Unit 1 Abacus
- •Module 4 Unit 2
- •Module 5 Unit 1
- •Module 5 Unit 2
- •Module 6 Unit 1
- •Module 6 Unit 2
- •Module 7 Unit 1
- •Module 7 Unit 2
- •Interviewer
- •Interviewer
- •Interviewer
- •Literature
- •Grand Rosenberg The New Breed// 1995 Retrieved from http://en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/The_New_Breed_%28episode%29
- •Part-time Jobs vs. Holiday Jobs// Retrieved from e4s:co uk http://www.E4s.Co.Uk/docs/part-time-jobs.Htm
- •Internet recourses
Module 7 Unit 2
Interviewer
We’re on the university campus to talk to some of the young scientists working in the university labs and find out the myths and the facts about their jobs. Are they slaving in the lab 24 hours a day, or off down the pub at the earliest opportunity? How hard do some of young scientists really work?
Speaker 1
“I think I work hard - I know I do. I come to work from 9.30am till 9pm at night and I often work one day at the weekend. I mean you have to work long hours to get the result and to be able to show the outside world that you're publishing, and that you're at the cutting edge. I think you'll find that all scientists who enjoy what they are doing will work phenomenal hours.”
Speaker 2
“There is no typical pattern to the day of a research scientist. When you are working in the lab everything revolves around the experiment that you are doing. Sometimes you can be working from early morning right through to late at night. I don't think you ever stop working. You even have ideas in your sleep. I'm involved in a number of educational projects; apart from that, I write scientific papers. Anyway, I'm happy to work these long days. That's what I mean about a passion for research.”
Interviewer
What do you think scientists feel is the best thing about their job? What gives them greatest satisfaction?
Speaker 1
"It’s the excitement of discovering new things, of course, and the intellectual freedom. I can write articles about the science - about the research we do, about educational projects we lead. I love my job. I can't imagine other job where I would get as much satisfaction. Science is fun, challenging, exciting. I like the job satisfaction! You can find something new and exciting in a small way quite often. Mega things happen once in a lifetime."
Speaker 2
"There're so many different 'best things'! It’s great when you have an idea of how something works, and you make a prediction that turns out right. It's great when you do a popular talk, and people understand something that they've never got before - that's a lovely feeling. Every day there's a challenge - some reason to come in, and make a bit more progress on something YOU'RE interested in doing."
Interviewer
Science is sometimes seen as a race to be the first person to make that all-important discovery. If this is the case, how do scientists feel about sharing the results of their research along the way? Is there any competition in science between researchers?
Speaker 1
"Actually, you always hope you are going to be the first one to discover something new. As soon as we find we have good results, the usual way we go about it is by writing a scientific paper and trying to publish it in a high priority journal, so people around the world, who are interested in that topic, can read about it. That takes time though, so if you have people you can trust who are working in the area and you know there's no competition, then you talk to them about your results. If it's an important research area then there's definitely more than one person working on a certain subject, but this can all add to the excitement."
Speaker 2
“You can never keep good news down. It always gets out, because everybody in this job is an enthusiast. Otherwise you wouldn't be doing it. If you're only going to make one great discovery in your life then it could probably annoy you, but if you think you're going to make another one and so on and so on, then it's fine. Some scientists don't like to share because they think that the work they are doing is going to be their 'one big chance', and so don't have the confidence to share the information or 'let it go' into the public arena.
As for me, I share my results with other scientists at conferences, or in papers, or at talks at universities. I quite enjoy sharing my results. Sometimes things do overlap, and either you'll get there first or not. But it can be quite nice to see an idea that you might have had, but not done anything about, getting developed in a paper by someone else. At least it's out there then."
(Adapted from: http://royalsociety.org/)