3.5. Analyze the example when we study not a particular object but some activity solving the problem – to do or not to do?

Field – driving a car (time, intellectual growth, …)

Object – Me, driving my car (BMW)

In the street of my town

Subject-matter – (quite complex) the car and its service,

how to operate it, the rules of driving, and

other in details necessary for effective driving,

psychological, moral and other issues

Goal – effective driving, getting from one place to the other

Tasks – to find money

for getting the licence to study and pass the exam,

to learn everything that matters

Methods – psychological (persuasion): to prove parents that it is necessary

for the whole family and also for my future career,

cognitive: to work much, pragmatic: to take responsibility on oneself, …

Topicality – if I learn how to drive and get the driving licence, my parents will buy me the car

Significance – new traits of character , plus flexibility, mobility

 If we successfully pass all steps coming to the last – Topicality and Significance – finding no answers to these two points, how would we treat the research problem (goal) and is it a problem at all (do we need to reach this goal then?

Otherwise, it maybe wise to reverse the sand clock and to start from another beginning. The first question here will be then: what is really topical and significant for me now?

 3.6. Analyze the disciplines you study this year or practical activities you are doing or planning to do this year. Fill the sand-click with real ideas (for example, foreign language, debate club or any other social activity, morning exercise, etc.).

  Let us sum up.

Put on one after the other white and black hats and look back at our work in this Module. After 5 minutes put on Red hat and express your opinion in one word.

Yellow and Green hats put on in your further work. As for the Blue one, put it and be in it, because you have just joint university community but your real life and interaction in it is still in future.

We wish you luck and success! 

 Project work
	Get united in groups with the same values and compose for you the program-minimum and/or program-maximum for your studies at the university. Present it and discuss in the format of a Round table.

 Check yourself!

5.1. Fulfill 4 tasks as your lexical test:

Task 1. Write down proper phrase expressions combining the words from the left and right columns.

the association	of the problem
the way	of view
the point	of students
the goal	of thinking
the significance	of the research

Task 2. Find proper verbs to the following nouns.

the goal	oneself
the opinion	the problem
the subject matter	the PhD
the diploma	the significance of the research

Task 3. Match the words from different columns.

actual	difficulties
vivid	thinking
to try oneself in	knowledge
overcome	example
constructive	research

Task 4. Build derivatives to the following words.

association	(self)-realization
consciousness	admit
community	confess
thorough	expertise

Task 5. Write down one sentence using not less than 10 words from your active vocabulary of Topic 3.

5.2. Look at your time table putting on any of six thinking hats and evaluate it from the point to view of your hat; write it down.

5.3. Read the Welcome Speech of the Rector of the University of Santiago de Compostela University to the students of this University; look for the key words and present a resume of this speech based on key words in written form.