4.5. Recall the announcements you have read recently in your university (faculty, institute). Share the information you have got in the classroom.
4.6. Read General note about proper communication patterns accepted in university surrounding.
General note:
If you talk to a person who works at the university (dean, head of the department, a lecturer, an office employee, an administrator) first, introduce yourself (tell your name, surname, faculty, year, group), second, formulate your question clearly, third, ask specifying questions if you don’t understand the answer clearly and thank for the obtained information while leaving. Before you enter any university office to ask a question verbalize your question to yourself
4.7. Reproduce communicative situations proposed.
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Forms of greetings and self representation (What are you and what is your addressee) |
The problem
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Specifying questions from one of the sides |
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student student |
the origin of the word “university” |
What is an etymological dictionary? |
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student student |
how to prepare text summarizing |
What is a cognitive map? |
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student at the department of international affairs |
how to apply for becoming a participant of the Erasmus program |
Country, language and terms of the program |
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4 |
student at the department of international affairs |
the number of the credits for chosen courses in the Erasmus program |
Which course (compulsory or elective) |
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5 |
student at the dean’s office |
change the group |
Reason for changing |
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student at the chair |
search for the teacher |
Reason |
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Project work |
1. Split into groups working on topics (a)’the structure of your faculty’ or (b)’the structure of a chair of your faculty’. Choose the form of presentation by yourselves (Panel, collage, Power Point).
2. If you want to work individually, interview somebody from your university on the topic ‘What is the university for you’. Present the interview in English in written form (printed). Do not forget to present relevant information on your interviewee.
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Check yourself! |
6.1. Fulfill 4 tasks as your lexical test:
Task 1. Write down words which name the following notions at the university:
Teacher - , lesson - , pupil - , class - , quarter - , director - .
Task 2.Give a name to those who…
(a) work at the chair and (b) get university diplomas.
Task 3.Build verb and noun constructions starting with the following verbs and choosing the right preposition after the verb (if any):
To specialize (in, on) …; to major (in, -) …; to carry (out, -) …; to enter (into, - )… .; to be (in, on) campus; to pass colloquium (in, on) …; to be (in, on) Erasmus program (in, at) … .
Task 4. Write down one sentence using not less than 10 words from the active vocabulary of the Topic.
6.2. Choose one the texts following, build Cognitive map for it and render the text with its help.
Text 1
Faculty (from Latin ‘facultas’ – possibility, capability) – a part of the higher educational establishment, where a certain cycle of adjoining scientific courses is being taught. F. is an educational-organizational part of a higher educational establishment which unites chairs (departments) that trains students and postgraduates on a number of related courses.
Text 2
Rector (in Latin ‘rector’ – ruler, leader from ‘rego’ – I reign) – the head of the university and a number of other higher educational establishments. The r. is appointed to lead all activities of the university or other higher educational institution including curricula and programs functioning and planning of research activities. The r. is a chairperson at the meetings of the Scientific Council of the university and approves its decisions.
6.3. Are the messages adequately verbalized? If not, give the right variant.
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Situation |
Expression |
Your answer |
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At the Rector`s office:
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а) Hello, I would like to move from philological faculty to the faculty of journalism. |
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b) Good afternoon. I`m from the Warsaw University. I`m Professor Tsybulsky. I was asked to bring you the papers on our universities.
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At the chair:
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а) Good afternoon, please, could you tell me when professor Maslow comes?
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b) Hello, I need to talk to my English teacher. He is of a middle age, with a short haircut and he usually wears glasses.
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Taken from a conversation: |
а) Our faculty trains in journalism, editorship and management.
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b) We can study Basics of international journalism, editorship and foreign languages at our faculty.
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Taken from a notice: |
Today, 15th of September, University Academic Council is held at the Chair of Communication. |
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At the centre of international programs: |
Good afternoon, I`m a second year student of The Institute of Journalism of the BSU Pavel Petrov. I`d like to hand in an application for training at Madrid University.
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6.4. Speak about the university with the help of the semantic map. It is a good idea to record your retelling, listen to and evaluate your answer.
6.5. Can the given informational text that gives statistics on Moscow State University be an article in a newspaper. If yes, then in which? under what title?
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23 faculties; 11 research institutes; 323 chairs; 59 departments; 15 educational and research centers; 4 museums; Scientific library (9 mln books) Editorial and publishing house; Botanical garden; 20 268 university staff; 39 035 students and postgraduates; 4 307 educational staff; 4 801 research staff; 2 322 doctors of sciences (full professors); 5 478 candidate of sciences (PhD); 167 academicians and correspond-member of the Academy of Sciences; 130 academicians and correspond-member of research academies in production; 8 dormitories for 12 142 places;
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Cultural Center; 3 health establishments (hospitals and rest houses); 4 kinder gardens and nursery; Sport complex; ANNUALLY: About 3500 graduates of 44 specialisations of higher professional education; About 1000 graduates of 181 specialisations 10 000 scientific publications in the country journals or abroad; 7 000 report thesis for conferences; about 180 PhD thesis; more than 80 Doctor of Sciences papers (full professor’s); 350 monographies; 150 collections of research articles;
500 textbooks and manuals; More than 1 million items of study and scientific equipment and devices
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